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New Study Shows That Tall Hoods Cause Deaths per Year

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This was previously discussed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623347

Screeching both (both for and against) ebikes in the comments notwithstanding, the highlight is that the increase is largely independent of vehicle size. By the study's own admission they estimate that ~10% of the effect comes from vehicle size.

Watching this ping pong around the various media outlets with titles seemingly inverse of the study's conclusions and watching people share it and comment based on assuming the title is the beginning and end of it really is eye opening.

Tall vehicle hoods also increase the drag coefficient. Every deviation from the teardrop shape increases the drag coefficient.

An intake scoop in the hood would qualify as actual air cooling.

I thought this was talking about hoodie hoods and got really confused for a second there about how some hoods could be taller than others

I thought it'd be a story about the KKK.

It's incredibly stupid to remove substrings from headlines and expect that what comes back will be an improvement or make sense.

*squints* So you're suggesting that HN auto-removed the phrase "Hundreds of" and then made the "Per" lowercased?

I don't submit enough to judge whether it's HN, or the submitter, or it was accurate and then the remote page changed, but I certainly agree the HN title is goofy.

Yes, HN has an automatic title shortener that tries to follow the site guidelines, including:

> If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

However it's not particulary context-aware as seen here

It was HN. I didn't notice it had removed "Hundreds of" from the title and I can no longer edit the title to fix it.

I find HN's automatic title editing annoying. It's wrong more often than it's right. I think it's a misfeature.

It is not in the article and I have no data to quote but I would think this would be a good "think of the children" moment.

Except that people do "think of the children" when buying larger vehicles, since they believe children should be in the big safe vehicles and never outside as a pedestrian.

Yes crossover drivers, that means you too. Not just the big bro trucks.

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