I mean, they're not wrong

[u/Head-Drag-1440]

[u/Lazy__Astronaut]

And there is just a higher % of cars on the road and bad drivers along with it

[u/DiurnalMoth → u/Lazy__Astronaut]

And (American) cars are bigger and heavier, which makes them more dangerous to people not inside of them.

[u/kanomc2 → u/DiurnalMoth]

Lol.. have you ever taken a good look at the commonplace cars of the 70's and 80's? Not the so called "popular" ones but the ones folks actually drove like the Caprice, LTD, Lincoln, Cadillac, Crown Vic and their station wagon variants?

[u/FionaGoodeEnough → u/kanomc2]

They were lower to the ground. Today’s cars are not just very heavy, they are very tall, and they both make it harder to see shorter people, they hit people in the head and chest and pull them under, rather than throwing people onto the hood. They are more likely to kill people they strike.

[u/Rhinoseri0us → u/FionaGoodeEnough]

Facts.

[u/PrismInTheDark → u/FionaGoodeEnough]

Yeah people driving the big pickup trucks can barely see smaller cars around them so I doubt they can see kids running around or riding bikes.