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A 7 page paper answering several questions regarding the supposed negative externalities of SUVs. All light trucks protect their passengers better than do light cars, but drivers of cars die at much higher rates than do drivers of SUVs. Several authors blame light trucks for being more dangerous, but their analyses appear to be inaccurate. Rather than penalizing SUV makers and drivers, the paper suggests that policy improvements focus on improving the safety factors of cars. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSeconSUVs.rtf
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Roads: The Effect of Heavy Vehicles on Traffic Safety and the Failure of Liability Rules" Note: Cannot retrieve the article at http://papers.nber.org/papers/W9302. Summary based on a summary of the paper
by Picker (n.d.). NBER Research Associate Michelle J. White demonstrates the truth and continued relevance of Benjamin Disraelis and then Mark Twains statement
that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. White undertakes a statistical analysis that appears to be biased in favor of her own beliefs,
using that analysis to promote reversion to a fault-based system of auto insurance that already has been shown to be unworkable, the very reason it was abandoned decades ago.
Virtually anything can be "proven" through the use of statistical analysis, which is the reason that most statisticians strive to control for bias and
confounding variables that should not be included in consideration of the question at hand. The author establishes that as a percentage of registered vehicles, the light truck class (minivans,
SUVs, pickups) "increased from 21 percent to 37 percent" (Picker, n.d.) between 1980 and 1998. Because there is no access to the original article, it is not known if
the author acknowledges the fact that the minivan was first sold in 1984 and that SUVs debuted several years after that. White reviews
the veracity of the conventional wisdom that heavier vehicles protect their occupants better than do lighter ones in the event of a crash, but from a different perspective. She
holds that the fewer numbers of deaths of those in light trucks is cause for drivers of light trucks to be formally penalized. The author states that the "current
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