• @cogman
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    85 hours ago

    Yes, but mini vans aren’t lifted 20 ft off the ground with absurdly huge hoods for no apparent reason.

    The reason trucks and SUVs are killing kids is because you can see a 4ft tall person that isn’t standing 100 yards in front. These are the only vehicles with this problem.

    • @dafo
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      54 hours ago

      But it’s still blocking the view for us in normal sizes cars.

      I don’t know how many times I’ve had to hope for the best and carefully inch forwards/backwards when being next to a minivan/SUV/pickup. I’ve been close to being in an accident a number of times because of, well mostly, SUVs.

    • @[email protected]
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      64 hours ago

      Additionally, the raised and blunt hood height makes a full-body impact with no force dissipation much more likely, particularly for shorter people, where a more traditional hood shape allows a struck pedestrian to roll over the top and avert some of the force of the strike

    • @[email protected]
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      14 hours ago

      20-foot lifted vehicles would probably be considerably safer:

      1. They’d easily have the clearance to safely navigate over most pedestrians in their path.
      2. Any attempts to balance them well would be incredibly expensive and you’d likely have many drivers whose cars would fall over from insufficiently sized tires or whatever.

      Hmmm… 🤔 Now that I think about it, maybe we should subsidize these lift kits to make this a self-solving problem