Never said they weren’t.

But when you put a flyer under someone’s windshield wiper saying you are purposely letting air out of their tires for driving a big gas guzzler, heating up the planet, and polluting the local environment with their exhaust - and it’s an EV, right?

Weight doesn’t matter so much to pedestrians btw. Front end design and hood design is much more important.

Lots of new cars now actually have a deployable hood that lifts (next to the windshield if you hit / are about to hit a pedestrian.

This allows for a more cushioned landing.

Doesn’t help if the vehicle is so tall you get smooshed in the grill, though.

Increases tire width also helps stopping quicker in many circumstances, but yes, definitely, added weight makes it harder to stop in conditions with reduced grip like rain and snow.

What we need is better safety systems - ie. automated driving as an end goal.

Kids and bicyclists will still be at risk due to their own behavior, but autonomous driving will still be able to perceive quicker and be more consistent in reducing speed around observable high risk “actors” in the environment.

Not saying any of this is an argument for unnecessarily big and heavy cars, but at the moment there is only two electric station wagons in the market. So if you want a bigger trunk than a sedan can offer, but not an SUV you can choose between the Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo or the MG 5.

Not much to choose from sadly.

The Audi A6 Avant is coming, so is the ID.7 wagon, but they’re still at least a year out, if not 1.5.

And the Nio ET5 wagon is coming out right about now as well.

And this will bring the total amount of electric wagons up to 5, three of which comes from VAG.

In the meantime there’s a boatload of huge electric SUV’s that offer no advantage over a wagon except maybe roof height since batteries eat up some underfloor space.