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Your complaint about trucks is misguided [1] and should instead lie with passenger cars until such time as passenger cars are not the leading cause of pedestrian deaths by vehicle type.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1730245/



This says that light trucks are 1.45 times likelier to kill a person per mile driven than cars.


From the Conclusion:

> The greatest impact on overall US pedestrian mortality will result from reducing the risk from the light truck category.


This paper is nearly 20 years old and does not reflect the state of the world today.


Nearly went back to the 1900s there bud.




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