and is comparable to normal cars with a hood
Well, at least when compared to cars from 1984. I wonder how it would fare against a modern car?
Cars are much safer today, the paper below says that the probability of a driver being killed in a new 2008-2012 car is 0.29 versus 0.42 in a new 1985-1993 model year car.
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
(another interesting finding from that paper is that the probability of death increases as the vehicle ages, even within the same model year)