Re:Something Changed at Tesla
by aklemm on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @05:58PM
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Hearing a lot made of this pedestrian problem. Are trucks more likely to hit pedestrians? I was not aware of big vehicles being more dangerous. Personally, I don’t want to get hit by any motorized metal no matter the size.
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Big vehicles are more dangerous, obviously. They have more mass, so they hit people with more force.
https://www.curbed.com/2018/9/27/17909270/pedestrian-deaths-...
Not necessarily, but hitting your body and especially your head on a sharp edge is much more dangerous than a flat or curved surface. Compare hitting your head on the edge (or even corner!) of a table vs. hitting it on the bottom of the table.