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

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

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

So every car should be slammed then

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