New pedestrian injury risk curves calculated by IIHS show that vehicles with taller front ends begin to cause serious injuries at lower speeds.

IIHS researchers analyzed pedestrian crashes to develop injury risk curves showing how speed affects crash outcomes. They found that the effect of crash speed on injury risk was magnified for vehicles with taller front ends. Compared with risk curves developed using crash data from Europe, where tall passenger vehicles are less common, risk curves for the U.S. show pedestrians here begin to suffer more serious injuries at lower speeds.

  • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’d argue that in order to (help) break this insane car culture, you need empirical data to prove it. This to counter the “it’s not really proven, there’s no evidence, just feelings” crowd.

    • FireRetardant@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      We have the data. In my area an ancient subway moves more people than the widest highway in north america. They fight tooth and nail to prevent any new rail projects and literally have to print new laws to keep building highways that only make congestion worse. In my opinion it is way more of a culuture war than a numbers war. Many places, and even people, in north america will treat you as a second class citizen if you take transit but we bend over backwards to shave seconds off of car travel.