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Yes in Europe all trucks have bars, but I'm not sure if they would hold a car or if they are more for people on bycicles.
by _trampeltier 3y ago
Yes in Europe all trucks have bars, but I'm not sure if they would hold a car or if they are more for people on bycicles.
- Freeaqingme 3y agoYep. When they have bars, these bars are precisely meant to stop a car or motor bike from sliding under. Bicyclists have way less momentum, so sliding under would be less of a risk, I think. They experience plenty of other risks though.
- Symbiote 3y agoThe side bars can help push a cyclist away from the vehicle if they collide with it while its turning.
- hef19898 3y agoThose hold cars. Up to a degree of course.
- masklinn 3y agoThey are for cars. The strength requirements are similar to the US standard (resistance to point loads of 50kN at 1/8th of the horizontal member from the outside, 100kN at the centerline, and 50kN at 355~635mm from the centerline), but the EU has mandated front and side guards (as well as back which the US also mandates) since 1994. Of note: a 2012 IIHS study indicated that only 15% of collisions between cars and large trucks were rear collisions , 22% are to the side of the truck, and 63 to the front.
- ehnto 3y agoThey only need to slow and control the car's stop so that it doesn't slip under too far. In this case there is no perfect, but a massive improvement in safety in just three box steel sections should be a very palatable regulation. Apparently it is too much to ask.