High-fronted SUVs are more likely to kill and are on the rise in Europe, with the UK an extreme example
  • klu9@piefed.socialEnglish
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    18 days 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 "

  • Linktank@lemmy.today
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    18 days ago

    Because launching them into the sky and letting the ground do the killing impact looks better for the numbers?

    • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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      18 days ago

      Homie’s never played GTA in the relaxed, follow the rules of the road kind of way and I think that’s sad. 🙁

    • 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      18 days ago

      with a tall flat front the entire kinetic energy gets transfered directly into the child. with a sloped lower hood this doesn’t happen. you might end up tumbling over the hood but that’s actually desired. the kinetic impact is way lower, resulting in higher survival chances.

    • Eheran@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      The damage happens because of acceleration. Hitting a wall is the maximum acceleration. Rolling over something is comparatively little acceleration.

  • Djinn_Indigo@lemm.ee
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    18 days 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.)