Yea it's meant to show how smart phones correlate significantly more than vehicle weight, but that vehicle weight is more of an exacerbating factor rather than the cause. Smart phone adoption is absolutely the cause for more pedestrian deaths, distracted driving, I see people driving while looking attheir phone all the time, it's verified fact.

[–] cadekat@pawb.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why is it only including suv/light truck weights? Wouldn't it be more informative to do average weight of vehicle, regardless of class? As light trucks/SUVs become a larger share, the average weight would trend up. I think, at least.

[–] 9bananas@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

is weight even that useful of a statistic to track in this context?

the reason american light trucks and some SUVs aren't street legal in the EU is not their weight: it's their geometry.

their hoods are too high and massively increase the likelihood a pedestrian is pushed under the wheels, instead of tumbling over the hood and windshield.

they also have stupidly bad visibility when it comes to children or generally smaller persons.

i wouldn't think that weight matters as much as the general shape and size of a vehicle, but i don't have the energy to do research right now...it's too hot to think :(

[–] cadekat@pawb.social 2 points 18 hours ago

Heh, that's a good point! I wonder what the graph would look like if it was hood height instead.