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An extensive analysis of automobile accident data from the designer's point of view reveals the importance of fixed-object collisions in the overall picture of automobile societal losses. When combined with results of recent car crashworthiness efforts, the analysis makes possible a rough engineering characterization of the optimal crash attenuation of the occupants of tomorrow's car.