[Zigurd]

Pedestrians pay with their lives so that we can have butch looking trucks in the US. Seriously. It's for the vanity of pavement queens. And it's measurable. Quantifiable. Regulators are unwilling to take on this problem because they'd be called woke.

[Zambyte]

The "pavement queens" have been convinced they need larger by companies that sell trucks, because larger trucks have lower legal requirements for fuel efficiency.

[hkpack]

Of course it is always someone else’s fault.

[Zambyte]

Not sure why you're so doomerist about it. Tax laws are way more straightforward to fix than cultural behavior.

[bluGill]

The article examines that idea and finds the evidence is against it.

[CalRobert]

FTA:

""" The strongest evidence seems to be for the “Big SUV hypothesis” — it’s hard to see what else could be causing the increase in deadliness of pedestrian accidents, and not cause a similar increase in other things. The Big SUV hypothesis also seems like something that could be limited to the US. But this on its own isn’t completely satisfying: if its big SUVs, why are pedestrian deaths for sedans increasing too? Why aren’t deaths increasing on rural roads? There are still unanswered questions here. """

[Zigurd]

As others on this thread have pointed out there's a methodology problem

Here is what IIHS says in their study: https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/vehicles-with-higher-more-v...