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People walking into live traffic while texting.
People driving while texting.
Police doing fuck all about it.
Why does every graph in this thread have a fetish of not starting at 0.
While those are all contributing factors, I'd argue cars getting bigger has added two additional major factors:
Impacts are far more likely to be deadly due to the higher hood height knocking the victim to the asphalt/concrete, rather than them going over the hood
Higher hood heights have far less visibility, giving less time to react, if the driver sees the victim at all
Combine that with people generally being distracted by smartphones, and we get the current situation
I'd assume that also cars having higher performance (power? What's even the correct expression here?), as in quicker accelerations even after a full stop plays a role. Someone walking over a red light for pedestrians probably wouldn't get hit fatally by most 2000s cars, but by a more modern car. EVs also have absurd accelerations.
That's a good point, didn't even consider that. EVs have really fast acceleration, despite being heavier