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All trucks are unsafe for pedestrians, period.
by gberger 7y ago
All trucks are unsafe for pedestrians, period.
- ramenmeal 7y agoDon't forget the lifted trucks. If one of those runs into the side of my car, it's bumper directly hitting my face.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoUnpopular opinion: Lifted trucks should be illegal.
- varenc 7y agoThey are in Australia! (Where the ANCAP is from). Or rather, lifts beyond a few inches require special certification. Same goes for larger tires and after market bullbars.
- keyle 7y agoHeck in Australia I don't think it's even legal to have tyres that come outside the width of the mud guards.
- grecy 7y agoOf course it isn't, that's seriously dangerous.
- gberger 7y agoWhat is ANCAP? I only know this term as meaning anarcho-capitalism.
- peter_tonoli 7y agoAustralasian New Car Assessment Program https://www.ancap.com.au/ https://www.ancap.com.au/
- tus88 7y agoWhat Australia are you living in?
- keyle 7y agoThey are in many parts of the world!
- ericmcer 7y agoIn cities lifted trucks and motorcycles and cars without sufficient muffling should be illegal. Engineers have spent so much time and money trying to solve problems around noise, pollution and safety so that we can operate internal combustion engine vehicles in crowded cities without ruining each others lives. Then someone can just lift their truck and take the muffler off for vanity reasons? Seems insane
- dharmab 7y agoThose _are_ illegal already. It's just that in many places the police don't actively enforce the laws because they have more important work to do.
- diogenescynic 7y agoNot disagreeing with your point, but a what is the more important work they’re supposedly working on? In SF cops aren’t enforcing traffic laws, drug laws, or really even patrolling so what are cops actually spending their time on?
- gberger 7y agoPresumably, violent and property crimes.
- Reason077 7y agoI think the only solution for this is to phase out ICE vehicles entirely. No matter how quiet they are when they leave the factory, there is always some idiot who's gonna modify the exhaust because he thinks that making extra loud noises makes him cool.
- banana_giraffe 7y agoAnd some companies that will modify the non-ICE cars to make more noise: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1180877114226008064 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1180877114226008064 Though, the first time I hear a Tesla making the coconut noise from Monty Python I will no doubt laugh. The second time? Yeah, it'll get old fast.
- ianai 7y agoCrazy bright LED headlights at eye level of other vehicles need to be illegal too.
- syshum 7y agoEven more Unpopular Opinion: pedestrians and non-motorized traffic should be illegal on road ways
- imtringued 7y agoYes what we need is a law so extreme that it even prohibits us to walk accross the parking lot to the store.
- philwelch 7y agoYeah, this is why semi-trucks have the Mansfield bar that runs level with the bumper of a normal passenger car. (Named after Jayne Mansfield, who died in a car crash with a semi truck.)
- jka 7y agoThat may unfortunately be true (and to some extent, is likely a problem with large & weighty road vehicles in general). But the article points out that this one may also be unsafe for passengers, if it lacks an effective way to absorb energy in a collision. Quoting from the link: "Because the cold-rolled steel is undentable it does not allow for crumple zones that reduce the impact of the force of an accident for occupants."
- themagician 7y agoThis is true of a lot of small cars, like the Smart Car and the Fiat 500. They have pretty rigid structures but no crumple zones. The car survives, but everyone suffers massive internal bleeding. If any part of the car itself touches your head or chest in an accident, you basically die instantly.
- Reason077 7y agoNCAP crash testing works by placing sensors on test dummies and measuring the impact forces on their "bodies" under various crash scenarios. In Euro NCAP testing, the Fiat 500 has a 3 star rating[1], and the Smart fortwo has a 4 star rating[2]. So while not among the safest cars on the market, they are certainly not the deathtraps you suggest. The Smart in particular offers very respectable occupant protection for its size. [1] https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/fiat/500/26307 https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/fiat/500/26307 [2] https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/smart/fortwo/7894 https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/smart/fortwo/7894
- lonelappde 7y ago> The Smart in particular offers very respectable occupant protection That's reassuring > for its size. That's not. Passengers risk rises with the size of the incoming car, not the car they are riding in.
- Reason077 7y ago"Passengers risk rises with the size of the incoming car, not the car they are riding in." There are much larger cars that perform worse on occupant protection tests than the Smart does. For example, the Jeep Wrangler: https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/jeep/wrangler/34192 https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/jeep/wrangler/34192
- baddox 7y agoCars too.