Originally Posted by WhyFi

If all other things were equal, yeah, it'd be fairly obvious. But, to me, it seems fairly obvious that you're overlooking something fairly obvious and quite significant: speed. Cars go faster. Faster most certainly means that time to impact from a given distance is shorter, which probably means that accidents are more likely. Faster also means that the likelihood and severity of injury will increase.

Also, the crux of the conversation is that of actionable means of avoiding accidents by way of auditory input, so we still need to look at that, too.

So yeah - citations, pls, thx.