Feds target SUV, truck size to save pedestrian lives — ‘one of the last frontiers of vehicle safety’
Feds target SUV, truck size to save pedestrian lives — ‘one of the last frontiers of vehicle safety’
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration stunned safety advocates by proposing new vehicle design rules that it says will help reduce pedestrian deaths. The rules will likely change vehicle design permanently.
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It’s out of control. I drive a 2019 Kona and I moved to that from my 2013 Elantra. Last time I was at the dealer was looking at the new Konas and they’re bigger, too big for me.
The most jarring thing is when I was picking up a prescription for my cat, and on the way home I was driving next to a plain vanilla, factory-stock GMC truck whose hood was literally taller than my entire car. And I don't drive a miata or some other sub-compact, I drive a freaking Nissan Leaf, so about the size of your average sedan.
Since then it's like a switch flipped in my brain, and I can't unsee just how insanely huge modern-day pickup trucks have gotten.