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The author estimates that limiting consumer vehicle height to 1.25m would save around 500 lives per year in the US

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

It's your uber...am outside.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

British people making 4.9m tall double decker busses: who dares oppose us and our 17,046 baseline pedestrian fatality machines!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i just want a tiny car with a head-tracking camera pod and no windows

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Daleks have it figured out

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Commies: Porsches and Ferraris are worthless luxuries for the wealthy

Science and the rich selflessly trying to make the roads a safer place:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If you don't want to get hit by my car stay out of the way sweetie

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

So we're sitting around 1000% higher risk compared to an AE86, then?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone do the math on how high it needs to be for 100% fatality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

it would probably reach 100% driver fatality rate first because of tipping over at terminal velocity

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So every car should be slammed then