cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/47995540
The physics of being hit by a tall car are gruesome. With a standard sedan, which has a hood height of around two and a half feet, a pedestrian who gets struck straight-on gets flung onto the hood. While perilously acrobatic, hoods are designed to absorb impacts and cushion the pedestrian’s fall.
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Federal researchers at the Transportation Department’s Volpe Center, for example, warned that taller cars with their bigger blind zones were killing hundreds of pedestrians and cyclists every year back in 2022. But as the reporting notes, it still receives far less attention than other road safety issues like drunk driving. And those federal researchers say their warnings were ignored.
“There was just zero acknowledgement of the problem,” Angie Byrne, a former Volpe Center employee who was involved in the research, told the NYT.
If you drive a pickup like this, you have made an arbitrary choice to kill the next person you accidentally hit.
If you drive a pickup like this, you have made an arbitrary choice to kill the next person you accidentally hit.
I’ve never accidentally hit any pedestrian and I don’t know anyone that has either. How many pedestrians is this person running over?
8-9 years ago I was nearly killed by one of these with an extra lift. I was in a sedan, stopped behind them. Someone texting rear ended me going ~45 mph. I hit my head on the steering wheel, and was pushed towards the truck from the momentum. Fortunately I didn’t lose consciousness, and turned the wheel hard. I ended up grinding the full length of their driver side. It was a 2 lane road with oncoming traffic, luckily nobody was there at the time. If I stopped closer or didn’t turn the wheel, my car would have gone right under and into the trucks bed and I might have been killed.
It scares me how many of these fucking useless trucks there are everywhere. Fuck them and fuck people on their phones.
Maybe we should move away from using cars for literally everything?
“Things shouldn’t get better unless they’re perfect!”
That makes me so angry, you were almost killed so some idiot could have their cool truck/pickup that they like purely for aesthetics (hence high hood that looks cool).
Buy a minivan and drive those trucks in a video game, it is incredibly immature to buy one of those in real life if you drive anywhere near civilization.
Don’t be so cismisandrist; cis men need gender affirming care too!
These people buy them explicitly to kill the other guy and call that “safety”.
These vehicles are murderous, their rise in popularity represents a visual indicator of the vanishing social contract in the US.
DO NOT BUY A VEHICLE LIKE THIS, otherwise one day you will be staring at a dead kid you just hit with your stupid truck you can’t see out the front of.
You will not be able to see the dead kid. It’ll be fine. You won’t even notice if you hit it on the way to the car wash!
Most people are so emotionally cowardly they would resolve the cognitive dissonance in a way to blame anyone and everyone else. “It’s not my fault!”
These oversized cars should be illegal.
And if I saw someone vandalizing one, no I didn’t.
If I saw someone cutting the brake lines or attaching a bomb to one, no I didn’t.
And if I saw someone vandalizing one, no I didn’t.
Same.
the cameras and facial tracking will though
$3 baklava
Oh shit, where?
seriously… that’s some damn cheap baklava
I know a place near me that had it but the pieces were tiiiiiny and not the best. Still like every day.
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