Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?
- Written by Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
You may have noticed — there’s a car-size inflation on Australian roads that some have nicknamed car “mobesity”.
Most SUVs and utes from a decade or two ago look small next to today’s models.
As we head for a fifth consecutive year of rising road deaths and what could be the worst year for pedestrian fatalities in...
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