Shaun;596698 said:Also.. this is the lounge.. this topic is a subjective one without very detailed stats.. if people want to discuss it despite it going nowhere.. why not let them? Why read it and then come in with sage-like one liners? Why get lofty? How many other threads about even less, go nowhere?
Shaun;596694 said:
missing the point IMO
the NSH bus example is besides the point.. please read thread
big accidents caused by one's own driving and no other vehicle (unless the other vehicle is the victim..as in the evo taxi driver case)
not buses hopping dividers, not trains, not t-boned by 18 wheeler, not meteors punching through the roof, not drunk drivers hitting cyclists, etc.
strangely my experience on the roads here has been quite pleasant.. almost never meet the horror taxis or tailgaters, etc. most common is just the clueless road hogger
Shaun;596694 said:and no it's not high perf veh with bad driving = big wreck
it is.. thanks to technology, all big wrecks will be made known as long as there are enough witnesses around
so look at all the wreck reports and look at the worst ones involving cars.. look at the most severe and count the number of tiong vs non tiong cars
it's very simple really
marklee;596712 said:Haha...no lah TC refers to Tiong Chia...at least that is what I'm referring to.
pbear1973;596732 said:Duh.. silly me...![]()
Crufty Dusty;596724 said:No, it's not missing the point. The point is that you're trying to make an issue out of it, when it isn't. i.e. the number of fatalities where "tiong chias" are involved pale in comparison to the number of non-"tiong chia" related accidents.
ac323;596745 said:Hi pbear,
thinking of TC your ride too much ya............
vroom vroom
cheers
Shaun;596787 said:Per capita, more TC cars and drivers get into major crash damage / death than non TC cars and drivers. Simple.
Shaun;596787 said:I really don't think some of you have followed the thread properly to understand what was said.
"It is the worst traffic accident in the (modern) history of the nation," said Transport Minister Chan Kong Choy, who visited the scene.
Crufty Dusty;596805 said:Proof? The insurance data shows that your conjecture is not true, that luxury models carry as much risk as sports models when everything is normalized.
again, i don't care about buses, ships, trains, planes.. you keep missing that pointDisagreeing doesn't mean I don't understand. Your conjecture is that "these are the 5 models that get in trouble all the time" but it's anecdotal evidence. Which doesn't make sense because as I pointed out earlier the Malaysian buses cause more deaths per capita (your metric) than the individual "tiong chia" car and drivers.
Malaysia's Notorious Interstate Express Buses - SkyscraperCity
In reference to an accident where 20 people were killed in 2007 ( the linked post is in 2008 ).
again, i don't care about buses, ships, trains, planes.. you keep missing that pointIt's akin to saying combat aircraft like F16s and F18s and what-have-you are more dangerous as compared to airliners like Boeing and Airbus. Taking to the air is dangerous. Not everyone is going to fly about in a combat aircraft. Not everyone is going hot into a war zone in a war plane (risk linked to activity as pointed out earlier). I can name more famous people who have been killed while flying civilian than in combat aircraft.
my guess is yes but there is no solid data..Are sports cars or "TC" always faster than other cars while on the roads, on average? That should be your conjecture. My guess is no, but I welcome evidence to prove otherwise.
No data and he gave up $50? He should have kept his money.Shaun;596862 said:all informal data points to yes though. Last night a friend of yours was over at my place scouring a local news for evidence to the contrary. Telling me he could find 5 nonTC big wrecks for every 1 TC wreck. In the end the ratio was not 5:1, but 2:3. If we had included the high profile cases that were no longer stored on the site, it would have been 1:4 in favour of nonTC cars being safer. Consider that the non TC population is so huge and yet there are more TC bigwrecks Reverse of what he was so sure of. We bet 50 bucks on it btw ...and I won this bet![]()
Here it is again: selection bias. Flashy cars generate sales of newspapers so the news report it. Websites work the same way.
Statistically, a sample population of cars should follow a normal (Gaussian) distribution. In other words, in a random sample there should be a proportionate number of speeders in all vehicle types relative to their category. How many people have been caught driving at unlawful speeds in non-TC cars? The answer is "more than drivers of TC cars". Similarly, there will be more people killed in "big wrecks" or not, in non-TC cars than in TC cars. It really is that simple.
Shaun;596918 said:got any proof?
the latest evo report shows lack of bias (car model not known, not mentioned), as do many other reports locally covering non TC stuff. people are bored and any big crash is interesting to them. takes nothing for them to raise their phone and take a pic, write two sentences and upload it
Shaun;596918 said:why do you keep repeating the obvious? of course cos the nonTC population is huge. we're talking big wrecks in cars (not buses) per capita and you have no proof at all
Crufty Dusty;596978 said:What I assume you mean by "per capita" is number of "big wrecks" divided by number of vehicles for that particular model. Which IS a strawman, for the simple fact that sports models are limited in number, tend to cost more and are typically used for "spirited driving" or even racing in sanctioned events. That is the very definition of bias. Otherwise, a large number of your friends should be dead by now. Isn't it? How many of your friends drive TCs? How many people on this very forum drive a car that can be considered "TC" or capable of being made fast and driven aggressively? How is it that so many M car owners are still alive? Or Ferrari, Porsche, Lambo, Maserati etc owners for that matter?
Crufty Dusty;596978 said:What I assume you mean by "per capita" is number of "big wrecks" divided by number of vehicles for that particular model. Which IS a strawman, for the simple fact that sports models are limited in number, tend to cost more and are typically used for "spirited driving" or even racing in sanctioned events.
My friends all save it for the car tracks and kart tracksOtherwise, a large number of your friends should be dead by now. Isn't it? How many of your friends drive TCs?
The ones who are still alive are the disciplined ones, or the boulevard cruisers, or the lucky ones who have had close shaves serious enough to scare them into behaving better. Or they are ones to which the odds haven't caught up with yet. Never say never...How many people on this very forum drive a car that can be considered "TC" or capable of being made fast and driven aggressively? How is it that so many M car owners are still alive? Or Ferrari, Porsche, Lambo, Maserati etc owners for that matter?
Brother... I'm not taking this single example and taring all evo owners with the same brush. Please read the thread again. I mentioned Hondas, Protons, BMWs, Subarus, as well. Please don't take it personally. I could list another 10 marques if it would make everyone feel better.So an Evo driver got himself killed. You take that one specific example and tar all owners with the same brush. Is that sensible?