09-07-2021, 07:52 AM
I think a passengers is more likely to open their door without checking, increasing risk of the right-side door zone compared to the left. On the other hand, most cars don't have passengers at all, so the overall risk of being doored might still be lower. The truth is that there are so many variables to consider in assessing road safety that I don't really think you can properly say one is safer than the other without actual testing in similar conditions. There is woefully little good data on that front, unfortunately, since such tests would be necessarily very expensive to do, and divorced from the context of the test, it is questionable how applicable the results might be in another location.