[Alberta's Child]

Exactly. A guide rail (and this article loses credibility by failing to use the proper term) isn’t designed to stand up to a right-angle collision. It’s designed to deflect a moving vehicle back into the roadway in an area where running off the road would be particularly lethal to a motorist.

[mewzilla]

The NYS DOT has changed a number of its guardrail standards in the last four years...

https://www.dot.ny.gov/main/business-center/engineering/cadd-info/drawings/standard-sheets-us/606

Interesting timing.

Don’t think it’s cuz of trucks.

[Hot Tabasco]

Then pretend that guard rail is a parked car or a t-boned vehicle in an intersection. Or maybe even the last vehicle in line in a highway work zone that is rear ended by a 9000 lb. truck doing 70 MPH.....

There is no question about the massive destruction that vehicle is capable of due to it's massive weight that otherwise wouldn't happen with a normal pickup truck.

This just another example added to the long list of reasons why not to own an EV.