A New Study Shows that Tall Vehicle Hoods Have Caused Hundreds of Additional Deaths Each Year
15 hours ago by _haha_oh_wow_ to c/fuckcars
That's so bizarre to me. Even on green you sometimes have to stop if the pedestrians have green too. And right on red still confuses me. Why not have a dedicated green arrow light?
The tool does affect the result, though. It's like stories of mass violence across the world: here in the US, you see a headline like "mass shooting, 10 dead 1 wounded". In places like China, you see headlines like "mass stabbing, 1 dead 10 wounded".
Shitty drivers will always exist, but a shitty driver in a reasonable car is gonna be a lot less effective at manslaughter.
In the 90s there were some regulation changes about how headlights worked like requiring them to be open if the mechanism failed and pedestrian safety that made them difficult for car designers to implement so they faded out of style.
Just gonna leave this here.
I'll take "Things That Will Never Happen" for $1000!
I'd defer to someone with more expertise, but I'd guess a lot of SUVs and trucks are going to be disqualified.
While I'm waving this low grade magic wand, maybe require a special license for SUVs or something.
Link without tracking parameters: https://www.caranddriver.com/...
It's weird to me that rear view cameras have become so important and mandated (for good reason) while the front end is becoming more and more dangerous - I don't want to throw technology at every problem but front bumper cams would probably do a lot as well, especially at low speeds, it could activate and take over the instrument panel when it detects anything solid in range. Be better than nothing - they're not going to ban SUVs in this country anytime soon, I'm afraid.
yup... baby crusherz for men who act like boyz ..... I wich upon a star for a ford ranger from back in the day
I know this truck, I ain't no stranger, I know that truck that's a ford fuckin' Ranger!
Wonder how many of these were "squatted" trucks?
Squatted trucks are likely a rounding error in the data. Especially when the stock hood height of many modern trucks is so tall.
I ride past an F250, Cybertruck, or Escalade on my bicycle and my head is just barely over the hood
I AM 5'11!!!!!!
More data points = more good?
"tall vehicle hoods are at fault" no hon it's idiots buying and driving large vehicles that's the problem, they aren't qualified to drive a go cart let alone something with a "large hood" and i fucking hate that fucking excuse, whoever did that study and published it in a serious tone is an idiot.
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Tall hoods, poor intersection designs inhibiting sidewalk visibility, and idiots assuming "right on red" means they can blast through the turn without needing to check.
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