if any car hits a child it's probably going to kill them.
they aren't tall enough to roll over the top, even a smaller sedan.
being defensive around stupid people is a lesson, teach the child to always be aware when near a road.
they aren't tall enough to roll over the top, even a smaller sedan.
being defensive around stupid people is a lesson, teach the child to always be aware when near a road.
That's not true. Obviously if you hit a child on the highway with 100km/h that child is gonna be dead. But when you're going 30 in a residential area and suddenly there is a child in front of you car, so you hit the break slowing down to 15km/h it makes a huge difference how your car is build.
> being defensive around stupid people is a lesson, teach the child to always be aware when near a road.
Safety doesn't work by just teaching the weakest part to protect themselves while allowing everyone else to build more and more deadly machines. This car centricity that puts the blame on pedestrians for daring to walk in the sacred car reserved area that separates everything from each other is exactly the problem.
These huge trucks are dangerous for absolutely no reason and they also take away insane amounts of space for no reason. They make everyone unsafe, destroy the planet and make cities shittier.
They have utility and getting rid of trucks in the name of safety is really stupid. How are you going to stock food, how are you going to transport goods?
There's safety, then there's regression. Might as well put everyone in a bubble suit.
And if you look at pickup trucks, they’ve gotten way taller since the 00’s, for no reason except style.
Just teach safety and enforce speeding/dwi/immigration laws.
Much better than taking a certain vehicle away from law abiding citizens.
I need my large truck just as much as I need my EV. I haul stuff constantly while also driving safely and following all laws.
There are other reasons (not that they're good ones):
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/energy/how-us-emiss...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy