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Comment by rimbo789 | Hacker News Reader

Itll for sure get worse once most cars are autonomous and are programmed badly

Every time I see a Cybertruck while I'm on my bike I am stunned at how badly that thing is designed, it's got a hood higher than my head and a front that slopes backwards as it goes down, so that anything it hits is just naturally shoved under it, this is a machine built for vehicular homicide. How the fuck did that get allowed on the road at all.

FWIW Cybertruck (and all other teslas) have a forward collision warning system that can detect pedestrians and automatically brake. Not perfectly of course, but better than other cars. Large cars are not the primary driver of increased pedestrian deaths in the USA, either.

>Large cars are not the primary driver of increased pedestrian deaths in the USA, either.

What is the primary cause of increased US pedestrian deaths?

My money would go on mobile phone usage.

Every countries in the world got cellphones. Many saw a drop in fatalies on the road, others it went up (US). Cellphones surely don’t help and are awful but once you hit someone the size of the car (and speed!) matters on the outcome and cars are bigger in the US.

"Large cars are not the primary driver of increased pedestrian deaths in the USA"

Evidence free claim. Sometimes correlation indicates causation.

Incorrect. Light trucks account for 54% of pedestrian fatalities compared to passenger cars at 37%. Impossible for more than half to not be considered the primary cause.

https://www.ghsa.org/resource-hub/pedestrian-traffic-fatalit...

It's not allowed in Europe, and I very much doubt it ever will be.

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