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I was getting coffee this morning and walked by a parked truck of some new model of Chevrolet. I was aghast at the front end. It was (guessing) four or five vertical feet of chrome. And then the hood above that. Basically a pedestrian death sentence as far as I can tell. These things don’t need to be on the roads with regular traffic.

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I think there should be a requirement for a CDL instead of a regular license if you can't see over your hood and know if you're going to run over a child.

But that said, it's not even really a commercial requirement. We have safety guidelines for humans inside cars, but no safety guidelines to protect people who are struck by cars. Both commercial and emotional companion vehicles like those with 5 foot grill heights should be forced to be designed for safety in collisions. Otherwise the vehicle doesn't belong among normal traffic.

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