BobbyJackson
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I haven't heard anyone really talking about this but it's something I've been thinking about a bit lately, as I moved to the US and became aware of the car centric, high speeds and moderately more dangerous driving than is common in most of Europe. This isn't a hit piece on car centric life in the US btw, I'm a fan.
More so, it got me thinking about car accidents and your probability of surviving physical trauma based on your metabolic health. I'm assuming that the more metabolically healthy you are, the more likely you are to survive physical trauma. Is that a logical conclusion? It seems logical to me.
I remember watching high speed car chases in the US in the 90s and seeing SUVs collide head on with other SUVs and flip and roll like crazy, only to have the inhabitants walk out practically unscathed.
Now of course, there's a luck element to this, such as not getting pierced by pieces of steal or getting decapitated or something. But how does metabolism play into this? If we looked at probability of surviving an accident in equivalent situations, i.e same car, same speeds, etc on a mass scale over the last few decades, what would we see? It's kind of impossible to measure this, I think, due to the fact that safety in cars has been changing, etc. So it may appear as though survivability is up if you even tried to measure it, but there's so many confounding factors it'd make it practically impossible to determine.
There's other stuff that could be less difficult to determine I guess, more controlled, like people falling from heights and landing in similar ways, with similar body weights and dimensions, etc. And assessing their odds of survival throughout the years as we've become more metabolically dysfunctional.
Either way, what do you guys think? Have you read anything on this topic?
More so, it got me thinking about car accidents and your probability of surviving physical trauma based on your metabolic health. I'm assuming that the more metabolically healthy you are, the more likely you are to survive physical trauma. Is that a logical conclusion? It seems logical to me.
I remember watching high speed car chases in the US in the 90s and seeing SUVs collide head on with other SUVs and flip and roll like crazy, only to have the inhabitants walk out practically unscathed.
Now of course, there's a luck element to this, such as not getting pierced by pieces of steal or getting decapitated or something. But how does metabolism play into this? If we looked at probability of surviving an accident in equivalent situations, i.e same car, same speeds, etc on a mass scale over the last few decades, what would we see? It's kind of impossible to measure this, I think, due to the fact that safety in cars has been changing, etc. So it may appear as though survivability is up if you even tried to measure it, but there's so many confounding factors it'd make it practically impossible to determine.
There's other stuff that could be less difficult to determine I guess, more controlled, like people falling from heights and landing in similar ways, with similar body weights and dimensions, etc. And assessing their odds of survival throughout the years as we've become more metabolically dysfunctional.
Either way, what do you guys think? Have you read anything on this topic?