Sales of 44s (vehicles in which the transmission is delivered through all four wheels) have slumped and existing owners face significant losses should they decide to sell. Environmental groups are happy to take responsibility for the change in fortunes and have campaigned vigorously against the vehicles. Government has suggested that drivers of the most polluting cars will be penalized with extra taxes. The high running cost was already starting to deter people from buying them. One of the reasons people opted to buy a 44 is their impressive passenger safety record.
Question: The environmentalist campaign against 44s would be undermined if US research were to suggest that passengers in small cars are 50 times more likely to die in a head-on collision with another car than the passengers in a 44.
Options:
A. true
B. false
C. uncertain
Answer: C