Increasingly heavy vehicles create a safety arms race that incentives every vehicle on the road to get bigger and heavier in hopes of surviving a collision with one of these behemoths.
Maybe instead crash safety regulations should hold vehicles responsible for absorbing their own kinetic energy. You want to make a 6000 pound SUV, well then you need to engineer in ways to reduce the damage it does to smaller passenger cars.
Maybe instead crash safety regulations should hold vehicles responsible for absorbing their own kinetic energy. You want to make a 6000 pound SUV, well then you need to engineer in ways to reduce the damage it does to smaller passenger cars.