The effect of front-end vehicle height on pedestrian death risk

2024/01/19 by Justin Tyndall · 1 voice · 4 citations
Engineering · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Traffic and Road Safety #Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics #Urban Transport and Accessibility

paper · doi:10.1016/j.ecotra.2024.100342

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• New study from @justintyndall.bsky.social, a top expert on car bloat: A 10cm increase in a car's front-end height is tied to a 22% increase in pedestrian deaths. Also, limiting cars' front-end heigh [bsky, 123 points, 2 comments]