Short people have to be on the lookout.
It can’t be pedestrians staring at their cell phones....
Should the title be that walkers more likely to walk into pick-ups and SUVs?
As Dick the Bruiser used to say...
And remember to always yield the right of way to the bigger vehicle.
Oh there is no doubt the A Pillars are larger on SUV’s, that’a a fact, and with larger A pillars you do get a larger blind spot.
Whether it’s the main contributor to more pedestrian accidents or not is another story. My guess is the higher sight lines combined with larger pillars/blind spot are, in combination, to blame.
This is an AP story that, interestingly, was “updated” five minutes after it was published.
I wonder why.
We need a link to the study.
I don’t take AP’s word for anything.
Why does this sound like just another push for battery vehicles?
Not even worth reading.
Remember those folks who were so stupid that you knew that they would go into politics, acting, or the media?
https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/suvs-other-large-vehicles-often-hit-pedestrians-while-turning
More there, including a link to the paper.
Here we go. Ban SUVs and pickups. 🙄
SUV’s doing the job that cars won’t
Wait til everyone drives a silent EV. Unaware pedestrians will be getting mowed over like deer.
Those truck drivers are drunk blasting their Toby Keith...
The Killer Cars skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdhyrPq3Jxc
Misleading title:
My thoughts when seeing the title was that any vehicle is more likely to hit a walker than a car. But then again, old folks shouldn’t leave their walkers where they can get ran over.
Then the article talks about pedestrians...
Personally, my wife’s SUV excels at hitting deer.
>the study mentioned previous research showing blind spots caused by the “A-pillars” between the windshield and the cabin,
Because sedans and hatchbacks don’t have A-pillars? In what alternate universe?
I was hit by an suv in a parking lot this year. She was paying attention to her passenger not where she was going. No excuses because I was directly in line of sight mid of the front grill. Wasn’t serious but didn’t help my day
Next, the morons will be calling them “Trump vehicles”.
Demonizing larger vehicles so that they’ll be easier to ban/outlaw from the “unwashed masses”.