Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian deaths, study finds

Re:Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian de... by crote on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @10:09PM (#39113151)

> Like driving on snowy, icy winter roads in the northern US and all of Canada.

No. Plenty of people get by with normal-sized cars under similar conditions in countries like Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Not to mention that SUVs are actually worse in such environments due to their almost-universal terrible performance in the Moose Test.

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Re:Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian de... by danaris on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @07:53AM (#39116676)

Did you miss the part where I pointed out that excessive size is not an inherent property of SUVs?

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Re:Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian de... by CRConrad on Friday February 02, 2024 @07:11AM (#39227731)

Did you miss the part where that's exactly the main problem with them that pretty much everyone else here is talking about, i.e. what this discussion is (mainly) about?

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Re:Higher vehicle hoods significantly increase pedestrian de... by danaris on Thursday February 08, 2024 @09:52AM (#39302573)

....which means that if you want to do something about excessively-large vehicles, saying you want to do something about SUVs is useless.

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