I’m a big guy, but my cars’ bumpers would hit me below the knee and throw me onto the hood. Both even have padded engine covers to prevent injury from hitting the hood.
The loaner I got recently, despite being marketed as a “compact SUV” would have hit me right on my hips and the clearance would mean I’d be pulled under the car.
And that’s the smallest car the dealer could give me. And it barely fit in my garage.
The rise of cellphone surfers has nothing to do with these statistics?
That issue would be less dangerous with smaller cars.
It's actually pretty easy to tell that its the cars, not the phones. The fatality statistics all record the vehicle involved, so you can use the rates with smaller/older cars to adjust for any changes in infrastructure or phone usage.
Europe has cell phones but smaller cars and hasn’t seen this increase.
It does, and other studies have shown that cellphones are the primary cause, regardless of vehicle size.
But despite that, vehicles are far too large to be safe.
I just saw one that said the opposite
...driver cellphones? Lol
I believe the increasingly bright headlights are also a factor in nighttime pedestrian deaths. The lights are blinding people to traffic moving beyond the lights.
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