Right, totally in agreement that their popularity has continued to grow since 2010. Now compare that graph to the graph in the post. SUVs didn’t just come out of nowhere in 2010, but the increase in pedestrian fatalities seemingly did. Therefore other factors besides just the popularity of large vehicles must have contributed to the massive increase in pedestrian fatalities.
Yes, they started to increase production then, but sedans were still at least half of the market. They didn’t beat sales of sedans until more recently. [Here’s the first result in searching for “suv percentage by year”.] (https://www.theautopian.com/heres-the-exact-year-suv-sales-overtook-sedan-sales-in-america/)
Right, totally in agreement that their popularity has continued to grow since 2010. Now compare that graph to the graph in the post. SUVs didn’t just come out of nowhere in 2010, but the increase in pedestrian fatalities seemingly did. Therefore other factors besides just the popularity of large vehicles must have contributed to the massive increase in pedestrian fatalities.
I’m confused by the “Car SUV” vs “Truck SUV” numbers.
Aren’t a large majority of SUVs actually crossovers? And wouldn’t these crossovers be “Car SUV”? Your traditional truck-based SUVs are a minority.