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Yeah.... No. Even with all the safety features in the world they still need to change the front hoods to be lower down. They still hit pedestrians all the time here in the states and they have an unbelievable high fatality rates because of those high hoods. More of the energy transfers into the person as as opposed to turning it into vertical/rolling them over the hood on other vehicles.
The same speed accident on the same size/weight pedestrian with a Honda Civic and a Dodge ram 3700 tiny dick edition will have extremely different results. The civic would probably break legs but they would otherwise be alright after rolling over the hood of the car. The huge dodge ram would just kill a person if they can't roll over the hood because instead of spreading out that energy transfer with them rolling over the hood you are just instantly dumping into their torso/head all at once.
https://lloydalter.substack.com/p/study-higher-hoods-higher-speeds
Safety aids are good, but proper design for when those safety aids fail or can't work is more important.
I've been looking at Japanese kei trucks, at half the size and much lower, and can tell you there is nothing in this world other than that safety feature that would have saved that child. Even riding a bicycle at the same speed I would most definitely have fucked up that kid.
After that, we traded in my wife's 2018 Subura Legacy, fully paid off, for a 2024 Suburu Legacy that was identical in nearly every way but had the automatic breaking feature. 2018 was $23k new and the 2024 was $32k. Killed of fucked up how much the msrp increased on the same make and model but that feature alone saves lives and now we have a $400 monthly payment for it.
That said, I know many people that drive those big trucks that even hate the idea of a back up camera. These people go out of their way to by Chinese products to disable these safety features. Again, I'd like to downsize these vehicles too but I can't buy a Gen 1 2000 Toyota Tacoma because it would be missing important safety features.