I camioncini mostruosi accelerano in Europa mentre le vendite aumentano nonostante i timori per la sicurezza: un Dodge Ram 1500 è più grande di un carro armato Panzer I e gli attivisti affermano che i camion pesanti sono “letali” in caso di collisione
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/12/monster-pickup-trucks-accelerate-europe-sales-rise-safety-fears
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>Researchers have seen such mechanisms play out in crash data. In August, the Vias institute in Belgium found a pedestrian or cyclist hit by a pickup was 90% more likely to face serious injury than one hit by a regular car, and almost 200% more likely to be killed.
>In November last year, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in the US found the risk of death was about 45% greater if a pedestrian were hit by a vehicle with a tall bonnet than one that was low and sloped. In January, a US study found a 10cm increase in bonnet height causes a 22% increase in fatality risk for pedestrians. The increase in risk rose to 31% for over-65s, and to 81% for children.
>But few people seem aware of the dangers. Just 40% of British adults agree that SUVs and pickup trucks are dangerous to other people, a YouGov survey found in February, falling to 20% for owners of such vehicles.
When most people seem unaware of the lethality of those vehicles, it’s the law that should come in to ban them.
Just why.. they don’t even fit on some roads. You literally can’t get through some small villages
We’ve got men here too with little peepee’s. Sadly a truck like that doesn’t compensate.
At least these cars will struggle a ton with a lot of the park houses you find all over Europe.
But still wish they couldn’t be bought here.
Can’t we start importing more of Japanese micro cars instead?
It’s like an arms race. I come from Canada and two to three decades ago this started happening. For context, these are not monster trucks by Canadian or American standards, where SUVs are the norm and a full sized sedan is considered among the smaller vehicles out on the road. The point is when the majority of vehicles are big like this it’s intimidating for regular sized cars. It’s hard to feel safe when you’re looking at some guys front grill in your review and you’re at eye level with a set of tires in front of you. Having said that, I don’t see people shifting to larger vehicles in Europe the way that they have in America. The roads are smaller and narrower and good luck parking that thing anywhere.
Evidently everyone is clearly determined to give the planet a fighting chance.