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Was feeling critical of your comment until I looked at the photo. That's a literal wall driving down the street. That's one underestimated value of a hood. G
by hasty_pudding 3y ago
Was feeling critical of your comment until I looked at the photo.
That's a literal wall driving down the street.
That's one underestimated value of a hood.
Gives the pedestrian an option besides going under the vehicle.
With something like this, pedestrian contact survivability drops to absolute zero.
- jefftk 3y agoThe hood needs to be pretty low for a pedestrian to go above it, lower than you'd see on the delivery vehicles (ex: current Sprinter platform) this is competing with.
- SoftTalker 3y ago> With something like this, pedestrian contact survivability drops to absolute zero. Which is to say, not much. Auto vs. Pedestrian is going to be a bad day for the pedestrian no matter what.
- nerpderp82 3y agoThat is not an engineering attitude to take. Cars can absolutely be designed to increase pedestrian survivability. There is a large body of research around this.
- SoftTalker 3y agoPedestrians can increase their survivability by not stepping in front of a moving car, but that's not an attitude to take either apparently.
- hasty_pudding 3y agoBut this it looks like even at low speeds of pedestrian is out of luck.