“Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians. Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.”
Deadly by design. And they know it.
https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/vehicles-with-higher-more-vertical-front-ends-pose-greater-risk-to-pedestrians
Deadly by design. And they know it.
https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/vehicles-with-higher-more-vertical-front-ends-pose-greater-risk-to-pedestrians
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And no - shitty little cameras and dodgy, often ignored warning systems are no substitute for being able to see what’s right in front of one's car.
2) insurance companies use clear signal to apply price penalties; communicate this to buyers
3) pile disincentives on late-adjusters after car makers have years to redesign
and: require commercial licenses for vehicles > 5000lbs
While we’re at it:
No one should be permitted to mod any vehicle if it is to be used on public roadways!
It's just all aesthetics/prosthetics.
0/10 being hit by a truck as a pedestrian blows ass.
Over six years now & I can count on two hands the times a vehicle has stopped or even just *moved over* while I stand there. The current USPS carrier’s vehicle had a mirror struck off. Do drivers even see us? No idea.
“Vehicles with hoods more than 40 inches off the ground at the leading edge and a grille sloped at an angle of 65 degrees or less were 45 percent more likely