The trend was all too apparent at the last auto show we went to—at Chicago in 2020, I felt physically threatened just standing next to some of the products on display by GMC and its competitors.
Intuitively, the supersized hood heights on these pickups seem more dangerous to vulnerable road users, but now there’s hard data to support that.
For decades, urban planners have prioritized car traffic above everything else, and our built environment favors speeding vehicles at the cost of people trying to cross roads or cycle.
Tyndall’s data set started with 13,783 single-vehicle, single-pedestrian crashes, then filtered out those instances where there was no VIN recorded, except if the report included make and model.
He also removed entries that did not record other important variables, such as vehicle speed, leaving a sample size of 3,375 crashes.
When examined by vehicle type, vans proved to be the least dangerous to pedestrians, with a 6.6 percent chance of death.
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The trend was all too apparent at the last auto show we went to—at Chicago in 2020, I felt physically threatened just standing next to some of the products on display by GMC and its competitors.
Intuitively, the supersized hood heights on these pickups seem more dangerous to vulnerable road users, but now there’s hard data to support that.
For decades, urban planners have prioritized car traffic above everything else, and our built environment favors speeding vehicles at the cost of people trying to cross roads or cycle.
Tyndall’s data set started with 13,783 single-vehicle, single-pedestrian crashes, then filtered out those instances where there was no VIN recorded, except if the report included make and model.
He also removed entries that did not record other important variables, such as vehicle speed, leaving a sample size of 3,375 crashes.
When examined by vehicle type, vans proved to be the least dangerous to pedestrians, with a 6.6 percent chance of death.
The original article contains 640 words, the summary contains 159 words. Saved 75%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!