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Re:Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian de... by HeatrayEnjoyer on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @03:31PM (#39109337)
Hopefully it would have an effect. 95% of the people in these giant walls of steel have no reason to be driving them.
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Re:Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian de... by HeyLaughingBoy on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @04:30PM (#39110158)
I see. And how have you determined that?
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Re:Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian de... by dysfunction on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @04:59PM (#39110537)
Maybe not 95%, but quite a lot of truck owners when surveyed essentially never use them for towing or hauling https://www.axios.com/2023/01/23/pickup-trucks-f150-size-wei...
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Re:Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian de... by HeatrayEnjoyer on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:47AM (#39114382)
My eyeballs, for one.
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Re:Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian de... by tomjakubowski on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @05:41PM (#39110985)
they need protection from the other people also driving giant walls of steel for no other reason than...
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