>>>>Thanks. Confirms my thinking. And good to see you admit it.
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>>>I only get once chance at this life and I'm not dying in my Smart Car when I get T-Boned by a soccer mom driving an Expedition.
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>>These thing shouldn't be on the road. Or should come with a clear health warning.
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>>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1323012/Top-scientist-killed-G-Wiz-electric-car-horror-smash.html
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>Apparently the DfT looked at this in 2007 - I guess nothing was done ?
>OTOH they are probably no worse, safety wise, than a motorbike ?

The large car manufacturers pull such a story every few years. I've heard such one in 1990s, about some scientist of ours who died because he crashed against a pickup while driving a Little Iron (for ironing, not the... um, well, this).

The message was the same, "if (s)he was driving a regular sized car, (s)he would be alive now". The opposite stories, where people died because something about their vehicle was too big, or center of gravity was too high, don't make it into the media, specially not with the warm human touch story attached. Just like Frank Herbert said "they don't lie; they use the truth to a much deeper impact".