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SUVs were over 30% of sales in the US by 2010 and over 50% by 2020. If they’re responsible for only 40% of fatalities, it seems likely that they’re quite compar
by sokoloff 4y ago
SUVs were over 30% of sales in the US by 2010 and over 50% by 2020. If they’re responsible for only 40% of fatalities, it seems likely that they’re quite comparable as safe as cars for pedestrian/cyclist children. (If the base rate of vehicles on the road matches the share of fatalities, there isn’t a spread in fatality risk.)
- Retric 4y agoYour intuition is wrong here because vehicles are kept around for a long time (~25years) and the study covered a longer period. The definition used in this study places the percentage of the vehicle fleet as SUVs from 13% in 2000 to 21.5% in 2019 while causing 40% of all children’s deaths over the study period. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Pedestrian-deaths-and-large-vehicles-Tyndall/ca171138528df0cf05f8300e85394cfb4a0735f9/figure/2 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Pedestrian-deaths-and-... Thus on average a SUV was more than 4x as likely to kill kid than a car.