Big trucks and SUVs, especially those with flat front ends, aren’t just more intimidating to look at, they are genuinely deadlier for pedestrians, according to new research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Go look at pedestrian deaths by year and try and guess the year the Iphone released. Here’s a hint, its the year before rates started to increase after they had been steadily decreasing for 30 years.
Truck market share hasn’t increase that much, nor have trucks actually gotten any bigger. Also the SUV craze had already been in full swing since the early 2000s as their market share only went up like 5% between 2000 & 2013.
I don’t doubt for a second SUVs & Trucks are more dangerous in pedestrian collisions, they’re bigger vehicles it’s a given. But the increase in pedestrian fatalities is 95% driven by smart phone related distracted driving.
this is the thing that really gets my goat, aside from we car enthusiasts, does anyone actually enjoy driving? (as an enthusiast, I don’t enjoy 99% of the driving I do) from what I can tell it’s just a distraction from trolling your ex’s IG while you’re sitting at a (green) light.
we pay such a price to implement this system of “cars as personal transport” and then we tied it to the mast of USS American Freedom and now the ship is sinking and we’re underwater on the note…
And the fact that nobody (drivers and pedestrians) will bother to look up from their screens for literally anything
That’s probably a big factor. There are a couple others that reddit isn’t ready to handle but it is in one of the linked articles.
It really has little to do with front end design (which is a stupid theory on its face).
Go look at pedestrian deaths by year and try and guess the year the Iphone released. Here’s a hint, its the year before rates started to increase after they had been steadily decreasing for 30 years.
Truck market share hasn’t increase that much, nor have trucks actually gotten any bigger. Also the SUV craze had already been in full swing since the early 2000s as their market share only went up like 5% between 2000 & 2013.
I don’t doubt for a second SUVs & Trucks are more dangerous in pedestrian collisions, they’re bigger vehicles it’s a given. But the increase in pedestrian fatalities is 95% driven by smart phone related distracted driving.
Those are not exactly equal though.
this is the thing that really gets my goat, aside from we car enthusiasts, does anyone actually enjoy driving? (as an enthusiast, I don’t enjoy 99% of the driving I do) from what I can tell it’s just a distraction from trolling your ex’s IG while you’re sitting at a (green) light.
we pay such a price to implement this system of “cars as personal transport” and then we tied it to the mast of USS American Freedom and now the ship is sinking and we’re underwater on the note…