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Feds target SUV, truck size to save pedestrian lives — ‘one of the last frontiers of vehicle safety’
(chicago.suntimes.com)
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The whole chart is rather fascinating and eye opening: Vehicle visibility
Astounding. Hummer H2 beating the Sierra by 3m is incredible. A truck designed almost exclusively to express how selfish you are and it has better viability.
This chart is eye-opening...I always thought Hummers were made by...Hummer...
GM marketing. They purchased the hummer brand from AM General. OG Hummer (later renamed H1) was based on AM General's military Humvee design, but released to the civilian market. H2 and H3 were designed by GM for mass marketing. Can be seen in the price. H1 nearly 10x more than H2 and H3.
Also, the H1 was 10x better for what it was designed for than the H2 and H3.
The H1 was not designed for commuting to work.
I'm not sure what it was designed for. It doesn't have a lot of space for hauling compared to its size. It's not great for offroading. It's a plastic money extraction machine.
The original was designed to play military at home.it was not a pickup truck or a dedicated and modded offroad machine, and yes it was a money pit. But it was perfect for pretending with a civilian version of the vehicle manufacturrd on the same line as the real thing.
H2 and H3 models were just mediocre rebranded SUVs with hints of the original hummer body lines.
Oh, neat. Thanks for all the information
The H2 was just a Tahoe with a different body on it.
Now my mind is really blown. I'm aware of this happening, just not with the H2
Thanks, embedding:
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I'd be curious to see that chart for a Toyota Yaris. I drove one for a few years and it was almost unnerving how little hood it had.
Same here. Going from a 1990 VW Passat to a 2009 Yaris was wild.
I will gladly trade my SUV in for a gently used M1
Only 20 gallons to the mile, not bad
Absolutely nobody will cut you off in traffic, though. At least nobody who wants to see the next sunrise...
what if the M1 doesn’t have a touch screen though
good
touchscreens should be banned from vehicles
It actually does, but it's a hundred times more useful. It helps make things go boom.
Touch targeting
This is actually a good point. And here's a video discussing the issue.
https://youtu.be/YpuX-5E7xoU?si=cmwWAFTUyAFt40mL
That's not to mention the optics.
https://www.quora.com/Where-does-the-M1-Abrams-have-the-optics-of-its-main-cannon-I-dont-know-anything-about-tanks
That being said, some civilian vehicles are gonna have their own camera systems too, so...
Civilian vehicles should all have thermals and a night driving HUD. If I'm paying 30,000 dollars then they can damn well put some actual stuff in there. Headlights being weaponized isn't something we have to tolerate.
Sorry, no can do, also cupholders are extra, best we can do is plastic hubcaps and a 10,000/6 month warranty.
Ugh. Too true. Cars would be 100% better if they weren't a mass market necessity.
This is misleading because being higher up you can see much better further ahead, and over obstacles and barriers. Your special awareness is much better at distances that are relevant for avoiding collisions. If something is 1.5m away its too late anyway.
The angle is also incorrect because they are putting the eyes of the driver straight in line with the hood, which is not how its been in any vehicle I've ever driven, the head should be higher or further forward.
The origin of the line is at head height...
Also these vehicles gain in distant visibility at the expense of everyone else on the road, blocking their views.
Also, an astounding proportion of fatal pedestrian collisions happen at low-speed, close to home where these sightlines explicitly matter.
The best way to avoid getting into an accident is to see it long before you get there. But situational awareness is not something the vast majority of drivers actually practice or have..........
You don't want to see "over" obstacles close to your vehicle when said obstacles are in fact human beings standing in front of your car.
At parking lot speeds, 1.5 meters is also not "too late," and it certainly isn't when you are at a standstill but need to determine if it is safe to move or if there is a small person in front of your vehicle, i.e. in the school pickup line, or in a parking lot, or your own driveway.
Ooo ooo we can do it like buses do. We'll put a bar on the front that folds out. 3 year olds totally know what that is right? They'll just get out of the way!
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You need one with a hand on the end, and the motor that drives it is strong enough to pimp slap people out of the way.