yeah many people think speed limits are the ultimate solution to avoiding accidents... they're not. It helps not to drive faster than you/your car can handle, but most accidents happen in the city or on rural roads because of distracted /careless driving. Cars are not tanks.

You are extrapolating to extremes with terrible data. Different parts of the car have different strengths. The cabin of the car will be the most reinforced part as it's where your dumb ass sits. Just watch some crash tests. Despite the front being destroyed in all the dead on tests the cabin remains intact.

@@bensemusx You can see statistics from many places and they all come to virtually that same conclusion on "deaths at X speed". But really that's besides the point I was making. It was primarily about overconfidence. Because they only "look" like they are doing a good job protecting you, people feel quite safe in them and get careless, especially at lower speeds. Like you mentioned front crashes, sure there's a lot to go through for the cabin to be affected and those (along with back hits) are generally the "safest", but did you know that the cabin is basically designed to protect "you" from the cabin itself? That's why there's air bags, seat belts, the way the seat is designed for back crashes, etc... and while they may help, they are not as effective as people think. See, it's not just about the things outside having enough force to get in, but the force you hit things when you are suddenly stopped upon impact. Those interior safety precautions only help so much because when your body is suddenly stopped, it can cause fatal concussions because your brain essentially bounces around in your skull when your head or body is suddenly stopped/hit then swells, stretches, breaks blood vessels, changes chemistry, etc... That's why so many players in the NFL end up with concussions in their career (Almost all of them actually) because even though their head is protected by a helmet, their brains inside have no helmet of which the body and head hits take their toll. I didn't even talk side impacts or rollovers either. Side impacts are generally among the worst because not only are side airbags less effective than a front air bag or a car seat (for rear hits), there's less between you and whatever hit you as you only have a door there and not a trunk/engine. So there's even more that can damage your body (bad internal organ injuries and lacerations are common here) from that angle as the side caves in right to the cabin. Testing has also been shown to be insufficient as they generally test side impacts at 90 degrees without taking into account other angles (head hitting directly into the bag rather than indirectly or into the seat at a angle), not to mention not taking into account bumper height. Rollovers have virtually nothing as many vehicle's weights just cave the top in and/or your upper body bounces back and forth, further increasing the chance of brain injury. Plus rollover testing was only "really" recently started in 2017. See the video titled "China's Harshest-ever Vehicle Rollover Crash Test Held in Tianjin".

@@contra1124 Exactly! I think why people got the impression that speed kills is because the faster you go, the more likely it is for a crash to be fatal. But it's less about how fast one was going when they got in an accident as it is "why" they got in an accident to begin with.

​@@PkGam Well there are extremes. Some people here think 180+kmh on the autobahn (I live in Germany) is a normal cruising speed simply because they are so confident in their driving skills that they don't think they will ever be distracted or simply too slow to react. You can try to go 180 if traffic allows for it (if there is no slower cars in left lane before you and few cars in the middle so they're not likely to overtake into you), sure, I've done that before, too. However the longer you drive, the more likely you are to get distracted and it will cost you. Because you will break your neck at that speed and chances are you'll take someone else with you as well. Our government recommends 130kmh on the autobahn unless there is a speed limit saying otherwise, they don't do that for no reason. But the crash statistics show that the autobahn is still safer than our city roads or the rural roads. Mainly because it is much, much wider, very straight, usually well maintained and you can really only go one way so unless there are "Geisterfahrer" there is no oncoming traffic. If you crash there and it's your fault you deserve getting your licence revoked.