Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians

Reminded me of this video by Not Just Bike.

These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us [35:26 | Mar 6, 2023 | Not Just Bikes] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo

I'm from the EU and sadly this has become more and more the norm here. I remember a time when we had very little SUVs here but now they seem to be everywhere. And it's a really busy capital city, so the streets are narrow. I can't understand why people would buy big cars here...

Sadly, we cannot really ban them as they are utility vehicles that a small portion of the population needs. However, I still see freakin' ads that frame them as fancy cars.

“The new Amarok V6. Pick-up truck for every day. Powerful and comfortable”
I suggest making it illegal to have them in any color other than matte excavator yellow (for construction) or green camo (for hunting and forestry).
- Lmao at the color limits. I'm 100% sure that would get people not to buy them hahaha that's genius
- One other measure that could easily be taken is to ban advertising for these.
- There are smaller trucks with the exact same bed size though. Like how the hell do people think European trades people haul stuff?
- forcing a "this vehicles kills pedestrian" warning on top, making it similar to sigarettes: all same boring packaging and a warning on top.
- Deer can't see orange, so one colour fits all ¯(ツ)_/¯
As someone with a utilitarian need for a truck in the US, you are correct. I m7ch rather drive a Fiat Panda than my 2013 Tundra. However, I try to keep my lights low (they are adjustable from inside the cab) so as not to blind others when on the road.
Still, there should be a federal ban on these stupid things, annd these, not to mention a federal law regulating how high headlights can be from the road (looking at you Ford F-250)
Its not just SUVs in western Europe, EU crash regulations for cars hitting pedestrians have forced cars to be higher and taller at the front. Unless the seating position also rises then you lose visibility of the very front of the car. If the seating position has to rise then so does the roof and this often means the floor rises too.
Sure, these ridiculous American trucks are far far worse, and SUVs are just generally bad, but its normal cars as well.

Gonna be great seeing Cybertrucks mow through pedestrians with their ridiculous blind spots and sharp stainless steel corners all over.

Honestly the thing is starting to remind me of the homer car, what a fucking joke

The Homer Simpson car, while it has its faults, is unironically better than everything in the SUV market.
Sure it's got the pop up logo triangle, but the front is still overall better.
Great viability, check out that dome. The design choices naturally focus the server outside the car rather than on instruments.
Back seats also have a big dome to look out and realise there is a world outside the car, it's not just an iPad screen to fast-travel. Again, the focus is on what's outside the vehicle, not in it.
On screens, there in not a single screen in that car.
Low-loading height, height clearance, deep truck. Probably more on par with a van than an SUV.
Low laying headlamps with standard incandescent bulbs, nothing that can temporarily blind people.
Sure it has rear-view viability issues, and the horn (and multitude of horn buttons) is problematic. But the Homer Simpson car is a good people and stuff mover. Could probably do without the shag carpeting though.
- HAHA I stand corrected. Musk wishes he had the Tesla Homer.

They got rid of pop up headlights but allow this bullshit.

I'd rather get hit by a NA Miata than a modern Ford F150

They don't want us to have cool cars anymore. Just ugly, oversized cruise ships that steal our data and try to drive themselves.
- That's right! Court ruling this week said data theft by car companies is super duper.

Ok I'm gonna need a list of car models to not get run over by

Ohhhh So the title of the article was directed towards pedestrians, not car murder enthusiasts
- Well everyone should have a hobby

Vehicles ~~with higher, more vertical front ends~~ pose ~~greater~~ risk to pedestrians

I think that's more accurate. Vehicles big, small, tall, short, electric, or gas powered... makes no difference. There's no greater risk to pedestrians than multi-ton moving vehicles.

EDIT: Guys, I didn't mean one size car vs another doesn't make a difference to the safety risk of pedestrians. It absolutely does. I mean that vehicles around pedestrians are a risk to pedestrians, regardless. This is #fuckcars, right? Stop all the down voting.

This is defintely true but id still much rather get hit by a toyota corrola than by an f150, chevy tahoe or other 4+ foot high hood height vehicle.
Shorter hoods a person will roll onto the car, taller hoods push people under the car.
I get where you're coming from, but without context your point comes across as more of a "all cars are dangerous therefore we shouldn't bother regulating oversized SUVs" rather than the "Yes SUVs are particularly dangerous but let's keep in mind that all cars are dangerous" that you were aiming for.
- "all cars are dangerous therefore we shouldn't bother regulating oversized SUVs" rather than the "Yes SUVs are particularly dangerous but let's keep in mind that all cars are dangerous" that you were aiming for.
  Oh, geeze. Yeah, I really didn't intend for it to sound like the first part. I 1000% believe that larger vehicles NEED to be regulated, like yesterday.
makes no difference
Not true, there's a lot of differences between a car and a ute/suv. The high, square bonnet of a ute both makes it harder to see pedestrians and makes it much worse when they do hit. Cars are designed to hit people on the lower legs and toss them onto the bonnet, while utes hit people on the upper body and knock them over so they end up underneath a moving vehicle.
Cars aren't great, but they're so much better than utes and suvs.
- Of course, a larger vehicle is more dangerous, but all moving cars and trucks are still a risk to pedestrians.
  People were being hit and killed by regular cars way before these monstrous SUVs and pick-up trucks became more popular.
  Pedestrians shouldn't be hit by either.
It does make a difference. A high frontend vehicle increases the severity of the injury in a low speed hit.
- That’s actually surprising. I would think damage to lower extremities (delicate knee joints) would be far more severe from a concentrated impact area than a large area impact distributed over the entire body - when it occurs with a low speed impact.
It makes a huge fucking difference.
A train fits that statement too. So do planes. And boats.
Big thing move fast hurt when hit. Thats not whats being discussed, tho, cause we all inherently understand physics.
- A train fits that statement too. So do planes. And boats.
  Trains run on tracks, and you can't get hit by one unless you put yourself on those tracks.
  I'm not aware of pedestrians and cyclists getting hit by planes. I'd be interested to hear about this trend.
  Boats aren't typically found on city streets, and pedestrian fatalities involving boats is how common?
  City and suburban streets should have fewer cars on it, not more. These are pedestrian areas, and perhaps we can learn a thing or two about how to actually prevent pedestrian fatalities by looking at European city planning and design.
- Why the fuck would you come into a community called 'FuckCars' and try to defend cars?

why drive a car that makes that priority harder to fulfill?
As is the case with every sane driver on the road. All the same, pedestrians are hit by vehicles every day.
With the volume of car travel in the world, it is a statistical certainty that people will make mistakes, be it distraction, complacency, fatigue, whatever the cause. An abundance of these high up, flat-fronted vehicles create a scenario such that WHEN those mistakes DO happen, they're far more likely to end a life. To suggest that people should just be better drivers is essentially just wishing the problem will solve itself.