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Number of carjackings in DC:
Number of car crashes in DC:
Not wearing a seat belt makes you 30 times more likely to be ejected during a crash:
This man does not understand mathematics!!!!
Let's pretend this man is not a disingenuous moron for a second:
Maybe this is just my country, but cars generally lock from the outside soon after they start accelerating from parked and have done so for at least a decade
How is car jacking even possible given that?
most car doors are easily defeated by a car jacker so long as the car jacker has elbows to use for breaking the window. the reason your doors lock when you start moving has more to do with that statistics show that locked doors are less likely to pop open in a collision, leading to more effective crumple zones. many cars that lock above 10 mph automatically also automatically unlock when stopped. i've always felt the old school solution of "car goes into drive, doors lock" was fine and that all these automatic systems add unnecessary complexity.
Is your window bulletproof?
We don't really have guns, so I've never needed to worry about that
Are you a carjacker?