Jerks and the cars they drive

alienator

Uh-huh. What you're experiencing is a complete lack of critical thinking skills. Go on, though, with your spray. It's apparently much easier than actually trying to use your brain.

Bro Deal

Gosh, those insurance companies must be run by idiots. I am sure with your vast experience with vehicle crash statistics, you'll be able to tell the insurance companies how to adjust their rates to make more money. Funny how the guy who high handedly dismisses any anecdotal experience and generalizations by other posters gets his panties in a bind when confronted with decisions made with huge amounts of data he doesn't have access to. All he can do is make a limp dicked argument about "short term profits" and "non-existant coverage for pre-existing conidtions." What lack of health insurance has to do with auto insurance rates I have no clue, but demonizing the inurance companies is always a good way to draw attention away from lack of reasoning.

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Crankyfeet

I can't believe that you are subscribing to the belief that there are no generalized characteristic differences between the users of different types of cars. You should ring up the car companies... cause their whole marketing strategy is based on specific targeted demographics, gender and disposable income sets. You could save them millions in wasted advertising and design strategies by letting them in on the revelation that all car buyers are random.

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Bro Deal

It's not just that. Why should alienator be wasting his time doing physics for chump change. If the insurance companies have mispriced insurance rates then that is a huge opportunity to make bank. There are millions of sports car owners out there who would leap at a chance for reduced rates. You would have to beat them off with a stick.

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"You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours." -- Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates

alienator

Uh-huh. Right. Your logic is truly astounding.

alienator

No, they just use creative interpretation of statistics to sell to idiots like you.

alienator

Uh-huh.

Crankyfeet

Except that they have the records of who buys their cars... and since they continue with this strategy... I'm going to guess that it is backed up by the results.

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Bro Deal

Brilliant. Concise and to the point. You can't argue with that type of logic.

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"You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours." -- Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates

Crankyfeet

Wow...show us your investigative experience within the insurance industry and the data that you must have on hand to back up this statement of yours.

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Bro Deal

I am going to guess that if it wasn't backed up by results they would go out of business or get their clocks cleaned by the competition.

Of course it's much easier to dismiss things as "creative interpretation of statistics." Yeah, that's the ticket. Nothing to back it up but maybe someone reading this will buy that bit of bullshit.

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"You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours." -- Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates

alienator

Case in point: the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is now pushing for laws to limit sport bikes based on their own flawed data which allegedly shows that sport bikes account for an exceptionally large percentage of accidents per user. However, what they failed to mention is that their data actually shows that cruisers account for the highest percentage of accidents per user.

There are more.

alienator

Oh come now. Really, Bro'. Given your Mental Giant status, aren't you big enough to acknowledge the BS that you spew, eh? I mean, really. A down to earth guy like you should be able to own up to all the crap that flies off your keyboard that is far from factual. Really. Read on, baby cakes.

Pendejo

Since Alienator has been studying physics for so long, I guess it's not too surprising that his logic tends to obey the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: try to locate it and it disappears.