This is it. A 2006 Ford F150 has a hood height of 51 inches, or just over 4 feet. Getting hit by one of these would be bad, but for many people it wouldn’t likely result in a head injury. A 2026 Ford F150 has a hood height of 75 inches, or more than 6 feet tall. Getting hit by one of these as a pedestrian is practically a guaranteed head injury.
I’m sure there are other factors. Higher speeds, lack of investment in infrastructure, political unwillingness to make any changes that might increase congestion or slow down drivers. But I believe hood height is playing a huge role in the type and severity of pedestrian injuries in the US and Canada.
Not sure where the actual numbers came from that they posted, but pedestrian fatalities correlates well with “hood height” of the vehicle. I’m referencing from memory here and would have to go digging for the actual source. The “hood height” could be slightly ambiguous but was taken as the point where the hood basically turns. Think about a 90’s minivan and it’s pretty low, a sedan is also low, a new gmc sierra or whatever is not so low.
The fact that it’s more difficult to see someone in front of you when your hood is 6 feet up probably has a lot to do with it too. Takes longer to stop a heavier vehicle too.
Commercial driving licenses exist to ensure there’s additional training for people driving a large vehicles. But there’s no additional training needed for driving massive pickup trucks.
I don’t like my chances as a pedestrian getting hit by even a Honda Civic. But I think someone driving a Civic is more likely to see me and stop their car before hitting me than someone driving a lifted F-350.
Instead of advocating for proportional representation to prevent vote splitting or vote skipping you tankies demand perfectionism allowing the fascist to win unopposed on the ballot resulting in many people of colour getting tortured and murdered by ice and Israel getting armed no questions asked for their bs acceleration fantasy tearing everything down in hopes a magically leftist government appears out of nowhere.
It was the tankies that decided not to have a primary for the Democratic nominee? Biden was unpopular by the end and Harris wanted to do everything he did, except she wanted to make the military more lethal and said she would have a Republican in her cabinet. Biden pushed through in the last months of his term the opening up of several new ICE facilities and gladly continued arming Israel when it was well documented that they were committing genocide, and Harris would do the same. The dems seemingly did everything they could to sabotage the election. Is your view really that the entire blame for Trump and the fascist rise to power is due to tankies? They really had a tiny impact if anything compared to every other thing that secured Trump’s win.
This is it. A 2006 Ford F150 has a hood height of 51 inches, or just over 4 feet. Getting hit by one of these would be bad, but for many people it wouldn’t likely result in a head injury. A 2026 Ford F150 has a hood height of 75 inches, or more than 6 feet tall. Getting hit by one of these as a pedestrian is practically a guaranteed head injury.
I’m sure there are other factors. Higher speeds, lack of investment in infrastructure, political unwillingness to make any changes that might increase congestion or slow down drivers. But I believe hood height is playing a huge role in the type and severity of pedestrian injuries in the US and Canada.
A 75" hood height is stupid.
Are all your mechanics Swedish volleyball players and where is the shop?
They certainly don’t help but according to this, the spike is related to smartphones not trucks/SUVs
That scale though. You could stretch or squeeze any data to fit a curve like that.
The data is linked in the post
Yeah, it’s still a bad way of presenting it.
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This is absolute bullshit, I am just over 6’ and there is not a stock car on the market in America that I cannot see over the hood.
Yeah it’s maybe cab height? Not hood height for sure haha.
Not sure where the actual numbers came from that they posted, but pedestrian fatalities correlates well with “hood height” of the vehicle. I’m referencing from memory here and would have to go digging for the actual source. The “hood height” could be slightly ambiguous but was taken as the point where the hood basically turns. Think about a 90’s minivan and it’s pretty low, a sedan is also low, a new gmc sierra or whatever is not so low.
The trick is to put it in a lift before you measure
The fact that it’s more difficult to see someone in front of you when your hood is 6 feet up probably has a lot to do with it too. Takes longer to stop a heavier vehicle too.
Commercial driving licenses exist to ensure there’s additional training for people driving a large vehicles. But there’s no additional training needed for driving massive pickup trucks.
I don’t like my chances as a pedestrian getting hit by even a Honda Civic. But I think someone driving a Civic is more likely to see me and stop their car before hitting me than someone driving a lifted F-350.
Good thing tankies got Trump elected again after Biden pushed to include pedestrian-safety into vehicle design.
Congrats, this is the dumbest fucking comment I’ve seen on the internet today.
Instead of advocating for proportional representation to prevent vote splitting or vote skipping you tankies demand perfectionism allowing the fascist to win unopposed on the ballot resulting in many people of colour getting tortured and murdered by ice and Israel getting armed no questions asked for their bs acceleration fantasy tearing everything down in hopes a magically leftist government appears out of nowhere.
It was the tankies that decided not to have a primary for the Democratic nominee? Biden was unpopular by the end and Harris wanted to do everything he did, except she wanted to make the military more lethal and said she would have a Republican in her cabinet. Biden pushed through in the last months of his term the opening up of several new ICE facilities and gladly continued arming Israel when it was well documented that they were committing genocide, and Harris would do the same. The dems seemingly did everything they could to sabotage the election. Is your view really that the entire blame for Trump and the fascist rise to power is due to tankies? They really had a tiny impact if anything compared to every other thing that secured Trump’s win.