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[monstrous SUV & truck news] FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER - manufacturers would be required to study the impact of test dummies hit outside of vehicles.

chicago.suntimes.com Feds target SUV, truck size to save pedestrian lives — ‘one of the last frontiers of vehicle safety’

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration stunned safety advocates by proposing new vehicle design rules that it says will help reduce pedestrian deaths. The rules will likely change vehicle design permanently.

Feds target SUV, truck size to save pedestrian lives — ‘one of the last frontiers of vehicle safety’
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  • cool so assuming the nhtsa can actually enact and enforce meaningful improvements we will still only have to deal with today's toddlermasher vehicles on our roads for another 20 years or so

    • I'm of the philosophy that anyone with an suv or pickup that isn't associate with a business should be able to pass a class C license test ( newsflash-asshole 90% of them could not) or have their death machine confiscated with zero reimbursement.

    • Don't worry, thanks to planned obsoleted they're going to be out in 10 years or so.

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