The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009.
Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.
Rise of? Pickup trucks were a thing when I was a kid.
They weren't as big as some of the pickups I see these days, though.
@callisto @argv_minus_one @davidho
The size difference is exaggerated to those of the 1970s.
I was a ten year old when the K1500 was new.
You also have to remember that large cars like the 1979 Cadillac Deville is almost identical in length to that 2018 Silverado, and that was considerably downsized from earlier models.
The big difference in pickups happened in the late 1950s.
In the 1970s, pickups, vans and off-road machines combined made up 25-30% of the market, with commercial buyers taking the largest chunk of them.
Now they make up well over 60% of the market depending on how CUVs are classified.
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver @argv_minus_one @davidho What year are those trucks? The red one looks 1990s-2000s to me, and the grey one looks like 2010s?
(Also, vehicle length and width have zero to do with the driver's ability to see things shorter than the nose height like children, wheelchair users, bicyclists and dogs.)
@callisto @argv_minus_one @davidho
1977 for the red truck, 2018 for the grey one.
There is a noticeable increase in the hood height between them, but it's not exactly night and day difference.
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