#megacars — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012224000017?mc_cid=5894ea2368&mc_eid=18a5888267&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Study by Justin Tyndall:
• Combine US pedestrian crash data with physical measurements of vehicle height.

• The effect of front-end vehicle height on pedestrian death probability is estimated.

• A 10 cm increase in front-end height causes a 22% increase in pedestrian fatality risk.

• The survival probability of women, children, and seniors are more strongly affected.
#RoadSafety #CarCulture #MegaCars #HeyNHTSA #VisionZero #TowardZeroDeaths #SUV #DangerousByDesign

Truck bloat and mega-vehicles are killing people:

https://slate.com/business/2022/11/suv-size-truck-bloat-pedestrian-deaths.html by David Zipper

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/03/17/study-megacar-drivers-up-to-4x-more-likely-to-hit-walkers-while-turning by Kea Wilson

https://salud-america.org/did-americans-suddenly-become-worse-drivers-or-are-megacars-spiking-traffic-fatalities/ by Amanda Merck

Some of these refer to the NCAP update that already happened but it did NOT fix the problems with vehicle design regulation.
#RoadSafety #MegaCars #TowardZeroDeaths #CarCulture #SUV #trucks #transportation #driving #DriveSafe #NHTSA #NCAP #TellCongress