High-fronted SUVs are more likely to kill and are on the rise in Europe, with the UK an extreme example
  • Djinn_Indigo@lemm.ee
    8·
    8 months ago

    I remember watching a Simpsons episode about how deadly big cars are back when I was like, young. At least 15 years ago. We’ve known this for so long, how is it so difficult to just set a maximum height commuter vehicles?

    (It’s a rhetorical question, but it anyone has an actual answer then count me curious.)

    • officermike@lemmy.world
      10·
      8 months ago

      We’ve known this for so long, how is it so difficult to just set a maximum height commuter vehicles?

      Because the United States EPA designed fuel efficiency regulations in a fucked-up way that incentivizes manufacturers to produce larger and larger trucks.

      https://youtu.be/azI3nqrHEXM

      • Jason2357@lemmy.ca
        1·
        8 months ago

        Generally speaking, true. But specifically hood height and forward visibility is purely aesthetics. They are marketing “tough” as that big grill, and they want that “chopped” look where the windows are very short relative to the rest of the body.

  • klu9@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    8 months ago

    “You want to buy a Chelsea tractor? OK, as long as you know and accept the consequences.” Only let them buy 4x4s that come with a wrap like the kind you get on cigarettes, but instead showing injuries and deaths to pedestrians caused by 4x4s.

    Example cigarette packets with warnings and pictures

    " STUPIDLY LARGE VEHICLES KILL CHILDREN "