(Poll is based on suggested questions from Doug Newhard)

Hopefully this will give us a better idea of causes of accidents in the S2K.

 

What about accident's that were not our fault. I have had 2 accidents, both not my fault. Both times, someone backed into me.


Dale

 

assume these are accidents that were not while parked or stopped, not acts of god (i.e. a tree fell on you), etc.

"not my fault" is too open-ended in my mind (if you're doing 100 in the rain and someone cuts you off without signalling forcing you to try an evasive maneuver in the wet with the predictable result of your car becoming one with a barrier - is it the fault of the person who cut you off?). i realize that there are accidents that are truly unavoidable (S2Klisa's son's accident sounds like one of those for example) but i don't know how to differentiate without leaving too much open for interpretation.

 

I don't think this will show much usefull data. Length of ownership and accidents/mile driven are ignored in this poll.

 

There are lots of variables that are not taken into consideration, nonetheless I still think it's an interesting poll.

 

it's impossible within this system to build a poll that would be truly "complete". you're limited to a single poll (no branches) with one question and ten answers.

yes, i'd love to be able to branch it (perhaps starting with whether one has had an accident, then type of accident, then age, then gender, then previous RWD experience, then driving training, then length of ownership prior to accident, then average miles driven per week, then modifications to car, then driving conditions at time of accident). but i can't. so this is the best i can do.

we've had one poll that was purely age of driver, now we're doing one that tries to examine prior RWD experience and driver training as components and predictors.

if you have a better idea - please feel free to build a poll.

 

i assume most of y'all are out driving as if memory serves we've had more than 5 crashes.

oh... and please understand that performance driving school AFTER you've had a crash means you should choose the "no driving school" option (grin).

 

bump
come on people, let's get some real numbers

 

Beware of statistics. Remember, figures often lie, and liars often figure!

 

Wow. I wouldn't have thought that this poll (even with the small returns so far) would blow the RWD experience argument out of the water. Can't wait to see some bigger numbers.