https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012224000017
The author estimates that limiting consumer vehicle height to 1.25m would save around 500 lives per year in the US
The solution to this will be trucks that are so far off the ground that they just pass over people under 6'3."
Every suburban chud will own a monster truck for towing their boat once a year.
500 lives a year isn't nearly enough for congress to give a shit about restricting car manufacturers. And even if by some miracle they did pass something, the penalty would be a fine low enough for the car manufacturers to just eat and continue doing things exactly the same.
British people making 4.9m tall double decker busses: who dares oppose us and our 17,046 baseline pedestrian fatality machines!
Commies: Porsches and Ferraris are worthless luxuries for the wealthy
Science and the rich selflessly trying to make the roads a safer place:
it would probably reach 100% driver fatality rate first because of tipping over at terminal velocity
