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.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    A vehicle with a higher front end is going to be a bigger one with more mass so the results will probably be not to far off from if they actually used mass, but yeah kinda dumb. Maybe they were trying to find alternate wording because the average bigg truxx appreciator won’t know what mass means.

    • chillinit@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      A vehicle with a higher front end is going to be a bigger one with more mass

      Science doesn’t work on shitty assumptions, big boy.

      • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 days ago

        big boy not always smart boy…

        and like I said how many ‘high front end’ vehicles are driven by people that even believe in science? Based on the bumper stickers I’ve seen on trucks, or the trucks I’ve seen under bumper stickers, not many in my town. This isn’t even trailerpark, usa… things are looking not too great.