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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/25/2026 07:00 EDT

New Study Shows That Tall Vehicle Hoods Cause Hundreds More Deaths Per Year

joshuark shares a report from Car and Driver: A new study conducted by the New York Times shows that the increase in vehicle hood height seen over the last two and a half decades, mainly due to the rise in popularity of large SUVs and trucks, has resulted in several thousand deaths that otherwise may not have happened. The study shows that while automakers and regulators have focused on occupant safety, they have turned a blind eye to pedestrian safety, which has fallen since around 2009. Researchers looked

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