<story><title>Effects of large vehicles on pedestrian and pedal-cyclist injury severity</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022437522000810</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>There are three trends: bigger mass, larger sizes and taller vehicles.&lt;p&gt;Which one of the above is the most consequential?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m guessing height.  at 2500 or 5000 lbs, neither is going to be pleasant when you bang in to it.  size maybe there is more surface area to get hit by, but that&amp;#x27;s unlikely to be significant.&lt;p&gt;mass does influence stopping distance though, so that could be, but at the same time we now have large disc brakes with anti-skid.</text></item><item><author>yboris</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Exactly&lt;/i&gt; on topic: a philosophy paper &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;Vehicles and Crashes: Why is this Moral Issue Overlooked?&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot; by Douglas Husak. Author argues that because of the high &lt;i&gt;crash incompatibility&lt;/i&gt; with other vehicles (and pedestrians), SUV driving is immoral - imposing an oversized amount of harm to others with no proportional safety for self.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jstor.org&amp;#x2F;stable&amp;#x2F;23562447&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jstor.org&amp;#x2F;stable&amp;#x2F;23562447&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asdff</author><text>Also, shape. Go look at the front end of a car like a ford F150. The hood is flat and sits 4 feet high. Now go look at a more compact car like a prius. The hood is low, and is angled like a wedge smooth into the windshield. When a prius hits you, its liable that you will just roll up and off of it and not get much of the force from the impact as a result. When an F150 hits you with its 4 foot tall wall of a grill straight in your chest, I don&amp;#x27;t think you will be rolling up and over. Maybe your head would just pop off from the kinetic force, sparing you from a slower death?</text></comment>
<story><title>Effects of large vehicles on pedestrian and pedal-cyclist injury severity</title><url>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022437522000810</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>There are three trends: bigger mass, larger sizes and taller vehicles.&lt;p&gt;Which one of the above is the most consequential?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m guessing height.  at 2500 or 5000 lbs, neither is going to be pleasant when you bang in to it.  size maybe there is more surface area to get hit by, but that&amp;#x27;s unlikely to be significant.&lt;p&gt;mass does influence stopping distance though, so that could be, but at the same time we now have large disc brakes with anti-skid.</text></item><item><author>yboris</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Exactly&lt;/i&gt; on topic: a philosophy paper &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;Vehicles and Crashes: Why is this Moral Issue Overlooked?&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot; by Douglas Husak. Author argues that because of the high &lt;i&gt;crash incompatibility&lt;/i&gt; with other vehicles (and pedestrians), SUV driving is immoral - imposing an oversized amount of harm to others with no proportional safety for self.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jstor.org&amp;#x2F;stable&amp;#x2F;23562447&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.jstor.org&amp;#x2F;stable&amp;#x2F;23562447&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wefarrell</author><text>I got into a head on collision with an SUV that came off two wheels while rounding a curve and crossed the yellow divider right into my little car. In that case it was definitely the height that did us in.</text></comment>