Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds

There needs to be regulations on the size of personal vehicles for a shit ton of reasons...

But this one by itself should be enough.

, I felt physically threatened just standing next to some of the products

Yes, that’s why they make them like that.

Road taxes should increase after certain dimensions and weights. Bonnet/hood height should be one.

Also, safety ratings should give equal weighting to the a vehicle's impact absorbtion and impact contribution. It's insane that something is considered safe solely because the occupant is protected.

No shit? I forget where I saw the comparison but the length of the view that is blocked when being in a big ass truck is absolutely insane. There could be a gaggle of kids in front of you and you would never know until you hit them.

A truck has to have a nose that looks like a big slab of concrete to oncoming traffic. If it doesn't men will be forced to wear dresses, sing show tunes while sitting to pee. Thems the rules.

It is honestly a major failure of US society (comedians I am looking at you) that people aren’t made fun of for driving these trucks so mercilessly that most people feel too ashamed to drive them.

I mean lots of other failures too, it shouldn’t be legal especially because there is zero reason for the high hood height from a vehicle function perspective. Unless of course you consider your vehicle being more efficient at killing pedestrians a reason to have them that way. I suppose we have entered that stage of things here in the US haven’t we.

This according to a study published in the journal "No Shit Quarterly".

But they need their Emotional Support Vehicles!

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Try the all new Dodge Pedestrian Rammer.

Pedestrian infrastructure is not typically great either

My 5 year old son loves Monster Trucks. We walked past one of these behemoth in stock form and he thought it was a monster truck. He wasn't far off.

It's ok though, in about 30 years after 2 million children are dead, we'll make a law that limits the height of hoods, effective 5 years from then.

Trucks like this are like having a huge gut, where you haven't seen your ...uhhh feet for years.

We got rid of pop-up headlights because they were causing pedestrian deaths, but I don't think we'll do anything about these monstrosities because not only are they deadly, they're not fun. And our regulators want to prevent fun more than they want to prevent death.

I'm fairly confident the folks over at !fuck_cars@lemmy.ml, !fuck_cars@lemmy.world, and !fuck_cars@lemmy.ca, could have told anyone that.

The automotive industry must be jealous of firearms killing so many Americans and beating the annual death toll of vehicles, so they're upping their game to really push us into an increasingly dystopian and dangerous world. How dare you walk or ride a bike!?

Last time I was visiting family in Toronto, I noticed the speed limit on major streets had been lowered to 40 kph (25 mph). So the same as residential streets, in other words.

I asked my brother about this. He said that in spite of measures taken by the city to improve infrastructure, pedestrian and cyclist fatalities were on the way up due to the heavier and higher off the ground vehicles people drive today. The city admitted they did not expect people to drive that slow, but if they could start ticketing people doing over 60, that might save some lives? It's pretty sad.

Pedestrians need to duck, not jump.

They know. And those vehicle owners like to bully people and other cars with that.

Tax it hard like a luxury tax or vice tax.

Call it a Bully Tax so that we can look at them for what they are.

Who would have thunk?

That's the point 🤷

It also directly correlates with smaller dick size

So cool. I'm gonna get an aftermarket hood height riser on my Ferd Fteenthousand

I saw a pedestrian get bumped by a city car on a crossing yesterday, she rolled on the hood and had a leg injury.

With a higher hood, like a SUV, she would probably have been thrown onto the ground and hit her head...

Next up at 11: "Water is Wet"

Stay tuned

Wasn't there some Toyota marketing campaign about how they were making cars safer when a person is hit? Let me search around...

Wait, is it because we cannot see them? Or maybe they are just really short people?

Unless the SUV or pickup has a trailer hitch and 4x4 power, it should be classified as a large sedan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bfyS-S-IJs

BONNET

What about school busses? They have very high hoods and many danger areas where the driver cannot see, right?

Nice graphic here: https://www.drivergent.com/safety/bus-safety/danger-zones/

pedestrian deaths

I believe they call those "bonus points".

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