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… and, most likely, they would not pass emissions standards either.
Spot On! …What is a little HC, NOX and CO2 in a country that still uses cow manure as cooking and heating fuel?
Including pedestrian and motorcycle deaths in a statistic that is used to justify improving the safety of cars in India is just plain dishonest. And since seat belt use is under 25%, improved frontal crash safety would only make a difference for less than a quarter of the population anyway. I’ll refrain from saying any more about it for the time being.
Is that a promise ?
What do you mean ONLY 30%. 30% is HUGE amount. .3% would be a small number. 3% is significant. 30% is extremely large increase.
And they take ritual baths in the Ganges River, a horribly polluted mess.
I’ve decided to break my silence after running across this web page with a graphic in it that shows the breakdown of fatalities per vehicle type in India. Cars account for only 27,000 deaths. With only 22 cars per 1000 in India, that’s about 30 million cars compared to a bit over 300 million in the USA. The motorcycle deaths are over twice that when you include the 3 wheel auto-rickshaws. Here is the link: 4 people die every hour in India because they do not wear a helmet - India Today
So it looks like car fatalities in India are quite high, but with car ownership in India being very small it doesn’t seem like much. 27k deaths per 30 million cars in India versus 35k for ~320 million in the USA. If seat belt use in India matched the USA, it would go down a lot. If US drivers didn’t wear seat belts as they do in India the deaths would be something huge like over 100k or even 150k per year.
I guess it depends on how you look at it. Are people talking about the similar increase in road fatalities in Colorado during the 2020 pandemic lockdown?
Well in the USA it went from 27 deaths per 100,000 to 12 from 1970 to around 2016. So it was 225% higher 46 years ago. That’s a lot but not huge. Deaths per mile has gone from 5 down to 1.2. So it was 416% higher per mile driven back then. That’s quite high. People drive a lot farther now. India is 17.4 per 100,000. That’s higher than now but quite a bit less than the early 70s in the USA. That higher death rate of 17.4 could be fixed by improving motorcycle safety and fixing the problem with pedestrians getting hit by vehicles.
My point is Getting cars with good European and American safety ratings to India would be of little use until the problems with motorcycle, pedestrian, and unrestrained vehicle passengers deaths are fixed.
A WRONG. The number of drivers and car owners stats on deaths is linear at large numbers (which they both are). So any percentage increase compared to the other is significant. Don’t make statements on something you obviously know nothing about.