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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Detroit Free Press predicts end of an era. Bye bye to the ubiquitous large SUVs and pickups.

"Gas prices are going higher, for longer than drivers have seen in a generation. Huge SUVs will be for presidents, gangsters and oligarchs."

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SUVs and larger vehicles are also dangerous. They block EVERYTHING including the view of other drivers and they cause more pedestrian fatalities.

"The main problems with light trucks are their height and shape, says Jingwen Hu, an associate research professor in the biosciences group of the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute and a specialist in crash-injury biomechanics.

When a car strikes a cyclist, the initial impact causes severe lower-body trauma, but it’s also likely to sweep that person’s legs out from underneath them. This is significant, because as the rider slides up the hood, they’re scrubbing speed and, with it, some impact force. An SUV or truck, by contrast, is taller, so the initial impact is likely to target the pelvis or even the chest. “That momentum is carried through your body,” says Hu. In addition, the front-end shape of a vehicle is vital. More than 85 percent of fatalities among pedestrians and cyclists hit by cars and light trucks involve impacts from the front of the vehicle, according to 2017 data from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. Modern truck and full-size SUVs favor blocky, muscular styling at the front end, rather than the more gently sloping transition from grille to hood that cars and some compact SUVs have. Instead of sliding onto the hood when hit by a truck, the rider’s pelvis and torso rotate with a twisting, tearing motion. With a squared-off front end, Hu says, “it’s basically the person wrapping around the vehicle.”

"Today’s taller leading edges cause two problems. First, sight lines are worse. Testing by Consumer Reports from 2014 found that rear blind spots on full-size trucks and SUVs were twice as large as on cars. And last year, a local news station in Indianapolis showed that trucks and large SUVs have a forward blind spot—yes, in front of the hood—that’s twice as long as the blind spot on compact SUVs. Both of these make collisions more likely."

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