US EditionT&E on Road Safety: ‘Car Hoods Becoming 0.5 Cm Higher Every Year’
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Correio da ManhãPortuguese environmentalist association Zero emphasizes that an increase in the number of SUVs facing high is a growing threat to urban public security, without any benefit to society.
The U.S.S. are larger and heavier, leading to climate targets for transport and increasing danger in cities, a study by the European Union for Transport and the Environment (T&E).
Car hoods are getting half a centimeter higher every year, leading to less road safety.
The Boom of Large Cars Hinders the Visibility of Drivers and Generates Concern for Pedestrian Safety
New cars in Europe, including those marketed in Spain, are every year half an inch higher. This trend, associated with the increase in SUV sales, not only implies greater use of urban public space, but has increased social and technical concerns about road safety, especially with regard to vulnerable pedestrians and cyclists, such as minors or older persons.
T&E on road safety: ‘car hoods becoming 0.5 cm higher every year’
Drivers of high-fronted cars are unable to see children as old as nine, tests find. The hood height of new vehicles in Europe is increasing by half a centimeter a year, on average, driven by the growth in SUV sales, new research assembled by Transport & Environment (T&E) finds. The trend is part of the recent phenomenon of ‘carspreading’, where supersized SUVs crowd out space in towns and cities and are more dangerous in a crash. In tests conduc…
The new cars sold in Europe are larger and more heavy, leading to climate targets for transport and increasing the risk in cities, indicates a study by the European Transport and Environment Federation (T&E). The study was published today in a communication from the Portuguese environmentalist association Zero, which is part of the T&E.
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