This makes absolutely no sense at all and flies in the face of all the statistics pointed out in the article.

Lower hood-lines save lives. You don't need a tall crumple zone.

I agree, but those rules require a crumple zone under the hood (basically between the hood line and top of engine). I didn’t write the rules, and I don’t enforce them.

Crumple zone and soft tissue do not really seem to go together. When a car hits a person, the person _is_ the crumple zone.

On some global-market cars that had previously very low hoods, yes. But it's not why US market SUVs have high hoods.

Ridiculous. No jurisdiction requires > 40 inches (100cm) hoodlines.