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Re:Traffic engineers build roads inviting crashes on outdate... by bobthepanda on Sunday June 23, 2024 @12:06PM (#40768419)
What we really need and would never do is to put a pedestrian collision rating in NCAP, which Euro-NCAP already does. (NCAP is the system used to give safety ratings to cars.)

Right now the NCAP has pedestrian avoidance but nothing on impact. It would be fairly trivial to test the impact of hitting a crash dummy at 30mph.

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Re:Traffic engineers build roads inviting crashes on outdate... by mitthrowaway2 on Sunday June 23, 2024 @01:18PM (#40768974)
Euro-NCAP would do virtually nothing to alter the design of a Ford F-150 or Dodge Ram, unfortunately. It's a very weak testing protocol.

However the US regulator is already floating a proposal to include similar pedestrian testing in its requirements.

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