[ok_dad]

My parents were both in vehicle accident reconstruction for just such things and I don’t even know how to count how many times I watched a car accident reconstruction (dummies in crash test vehicles) end in a dummy being thrown in any direction you could imagine. It might not hit a person but it will hit a car in the other lanes and cause accidents.

You’re out of your element here, stick to compilers for once.

[WalterBright]

Do you know of any such accidents in real life? Do you have any statistics on ejected people causing other accidents?

What about when people were saved because they were flung from a car? Like when the car catches fire, falls off a bridge, goes into the river, goes into another lane to be smacked by a truck?

[ok_dad]

I don't feel like arguing because you're "not even wrong" [0] and I don't have time to educate you or find references you'll find compelling. I would be happy to do so if you want to spend several hours educating me on compiler internals, but I think that probably that's the last thing you want to do today.

I hope you do wear your seatbelt, or at least never get into an accident if not.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

[WalterBright]

You could ask your parents if any of the scenarios they reconstructed were about cases where the person was better off being ejected. Getting trapped in a burning car is a real risk.

https://www.cleveland19.com/story/26647201/neighbrs-watch-a-...

I always wear my seatbelt. Longer than anyone else, probably, because I was doing it more than a decade before the law required it.

I did a course on compiler internals once. It wasn't well received, I'm still not sure what went wrong. I don't really want to bore anyone :-)

[jahewson]

It’s a that like asking for all the data on how many people spread polio? Zero! Aha, thus proving the vaccine does nothing!

[WalterBright]

Um, there are lots of polio statistics.

[kortilla]

> You’re out of your element here, stick to compilers for once.

This is an incredibly stupid way to engage people. He has a degree in aerospace engineering from Caltech and IIRC worked for Boeing on the 757 before getting into compilers.

You’re argument is “you are an expert in one thing and thus can’t know other things.” Take a moment to reflect on why that ends up just making you look really dumb.

[bendbro]

> It might not hit a person but it will hit a car in the other lanes and cause accidents

A butterfly flaps its wings in China causing ok_dad to speculate wildly about the deadly consequences of car fired human projectiles.

We definitely need to ban butterflies.