Unfortunately the presiding sentiment is “better them than me”
Which is why vehicle size and weight should be more tightly constrained in regulations but our regulators are borderline incompetent.
Which is why vehicle size and weight should be more tightly constrained in regulations but our regulators are borderline incompetent.
Because they're technically "offroad vehicles" (even though most of them never go offroad), SUVs are allowed to ignore many pedestrian crash standards. The NHTSA also crash tests vehicles against other vehicles in the same class, so the true consequences of SUVs don't show up in their tests.
There's also the issue of children being run over in driveways and parking lots by SUVs with massive blind spots.