Well yeah, since that’s what most people drive now.
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I like to ask this question to people I know:
Would you rather be hit by a Porsche going 50mph or a (new model) Tahoe going 30mph?
The kinetic energy carried into the impact scales with the square of the speed, 1/2mv². To make the impact energy equal, the Tahoe would need to have (50²/30²) 2.777 times the mass of the Porsche. The mass of the Tahoe is known, about 2600kg. There lightest Porsche on offer is the 911 S/T at 1386kg. The Porsche would hit you with ~50% more force.
The question now is the low hoodline worth being hit with 50% more force? I’d say yes.
Mom said it’s my turn to post this
Color me not surprised. Who could’ve guessed you would be here of all people keeping quiet on this one and dismissing the death and suffering of others. Same as it ever was
Yes, children ran over are so funny to you?
Surface area matters when it comes to contact (mind blown gif)
I had a neighbor deputy who investigated crash scenes about 15 years ago. He said the flat faced trucks and SUVs were killers. The best car for pedestrian survival was the 2003 style Honda Accord. That was the style that somewhat mimicked the Passat with sloping hood.
Part of it is that people who are terrible drivers know they’re bad and drive huge vehicles to feel safer for when they inevitably hit something. SUV and truck drivers are also more far more likely to go out of their way to hit animals as well, so they’d care less about hitting people in the first place.
You should need a separate license to drive a truck / SUV
Repeal CAFE, it’s driving everyone to change to bigger cars to make sure the automakers hit their MPG numbers.
It’s wasting fuel and killing pedestrians.
Imagine that.
It’s because we can’t see them
They also blind the fuck out of anyone in a lowed sedan.
Source: Me
They also blind the fuck out of anyone in a lowed sedan.
Source: Me.
At the very least if we’re not going to reduce the size of trucks, we need to put sensors and cameras on these things.
It’s ridiculous that a stock Escalade or F-150 can have like 10 children sit cross-legged in front of it and you can’t see a single one of them from the driver’s seat.
Looks like I found the weekly “SUVs and Trucks Are Bad” circlejerk. Anything actually new?