Increasingly heavy vehicles create a safety arms race that incentives every vehicle on the road to get bigger and heavier in hopes of surviving a collision with

Increasingly heavy vehicles create a safety arms race that incentives every vehicle on the road to get bigger and heavier in hopes of surviving a collision with one of these behemoths. Maybe instead crash safety regulations should hold vehicles responsible for absorbing their own kinetic energy. You want to make a 6000 pound SUV, well then you need to engineer in ways to reduce the damage it does to smaller passenger cars.