The author estimates that limiting consumer vehicle height to 1.25m would save around 500 lives per year in the US
British people making 4.9m tall double decker busses: who dares oppose us and our 17,046 baseline pedestrian fatality machines!
If you don’t want to get hit by my car stay out of the way sweetie
500 lives a year isn’t nearly enough for congress to give a shit about restricting car manufacturers. And even if by some miracle they did pass something, the penalty would be a fine low enough for the car manufacturers to just eat and continue doing things exactly the same.
So every car should be slammed then
Commies: Porsches and Ferraris are worthless luxuries for the wealthy
Science and the rich selflessly trying to make the roads a safer place:
The solution to this will be trucks that are so far off the ground that they just pass over people under 6’3."
Every suburban chud will own a monster truck for towing their boat once a year.
It’s your uber…am outside.
Someone do the math on how high it needs to be for 100% fatality.
it would probably reach 100% driver fatality rate first because of tipping over at terminal velocity
So we’re sitting around 1000% higher risk compared to an AE86, then?
i just want a tiny car with a head-tracking camera pod and no windows
Daleks have it figured out
