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For a long time it has been known that large cars are safer than small cars. Recently, this has been widely publicized by The Car Book (1980), published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration under President Carter’s administration, and in publications of the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI, 1981), some findings of which were cited by General Motors Corp. in newspaper advertisements in 1982.
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Joksch, H.C., Spicker, S.F., Mela, D.F. (1987). Selfish Safety or Redistributed Risks? Trade-offs among Automobile Occupants’ Accident Fatality Risks. In: Lave, L.B. (eds) Risk Assessment and Management. Advances in Risk Analysis, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6443-7_27
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