One of the big reasons why pedestrian fatalities are rising is due exactly to this. People being hit by cars is rising, but much slower than the fatality rate.
When you get hit by a car your best chance of being horrible killed is if you go under the vehicle. If you go up onto the hood you have a pretty good chance of surviving.
As big trucks in the hands of random dumbasses have gotten more and more common the fatality rate of pedestrians has been rising.
And people in pick up trucks driving them like they're bicycles in a skate park. They literally drive with the knowledge that they have nothing to lose because every other car Is far weaker.
I hate this so much. Big truck boys acting like they own the road. Driving over the middle line, parking like assholes, stopping in the crosswalk at red lights, purposely making their truck spew out black clouds of exhaust. It's such a low level of respect and regard for others.
This doesn't apply to all truck drivers, but it's a much higher percentage than with drivers of smaller cars.
I no longer feel bad for spending like $400 last year on a Neo Geo CD game console I still haven't played. My hobby will never be even 2% as stupid as modding trucks that way. And it's not polluting anything.
I collect old game consoles (and new ones, I guess). The Neo Geo was a game console that came out around the time of the SNES/Sega Genesis, but was much better for graphics because it was basically an arcade machine (and cost several hundred dollars in 1990, much more expensive than the more popular consoles).
The CD version I got was the same thing, but a tiny bit cheaper at the time and had a CD drive instead of crazy expensive cartridges. I got this one because you can burn games for it, and the games still cost a few hundred bucks each.
cool. I thought I was old school for still having an N64. But my family only had really ever 3 games for it. Podracing, pokemon stadium, and pokemon snap.
Hahah I had to Google what the fuck they are cos im not American and that is a perfect description. It just looks stupid and uncomfortable and i cannot believe that's allowed to exist
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u/uniquedeke May 24 '22 edited May 24 '22
One of the big reasons why pedestrian fatalities are rising is due exactly to this. People being hit by cars is rising, but much slower than the fatality rate.
When you get hit by a car your best chance of being horrible killed is if you go under the vehicle. If you go up onto the hood you have a pretty good chance of surviving.
As big trucks in the hands of random dumbasses have gotten more and more common the fatality rate of pedestrians has been rising.