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by bluGill 256 days ago
The article examines that idea and finds the evidence is against it.
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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. """

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...