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:

i just want a tiny car with a head-tracking camera pod and no windows

If you don't want to get hit by my car stay out of the way sweetie

So we're sitting around 1000% higher risk compared to an AE86, then?

So every car should be slammed then

Someone do the math on how high it needs to be for 100% fatality.