T&E on road safety: ‘car hoods becoming 0.5 cm higher every year’
Ever higher hoods limit driver’s vision of smaller road users /Crispin Hughes / Clean Cities Campaign / Climate Visuals
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
