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• Large-Sized SUVs and Trucks Offer Minimal Safety Benefits: IIHS

  February 13, 2025

  Darian Hauf

  Researchers have found that larger, heavier vehicles do not improve occupant safety, and increase the danger to pedestrians and those in other vehicles, despite popular beliefs.

• Growing Height of SUV and Truck Hoods Linked To Greater Risk of Pedestrian Deaths: Study

  February 6, 2024

  Katherine McDaniel

  A new study warns that the growing size of trucks and SUVs is contributing to increasingly deadly pedestrian auto accidents on U.S. roads.

• Bus and Heavy Truck Automatic Emergency Braking Will Be Required Under Proposed Rulmaking

  July 10, 2023

  Stephanie Yanovich

  The NHTSA has proposed a new rule which would require mandatory automatic emergency braking systems on larger trucks and buses.