[bioemerl]

The two are roughly the same.

A big truck is more deadly to smaller vehicles and we shouldn't make it unsafe to drive a regular sized car instead of one of these monstrously large trucks.

You could regulate things like requiring stop gates on trucks like semi trucks have though, which would at least help.

[mattnewton]

This would leave the main problems of lower visibility and the higher mass creating a higher more dangerous impact for other cars and pedestrians.

[wilg]

I just really want to see a detailed study or article that really focuses on the details of pickup safety versus other cars, with empirical data about the different factors, how and why they differ, and ways of mitigating them. Seems like an important input for regulators. There's a lot of anti-car handwaving in discussions like this that would be good to cut through (for everybody involved).