Research carried out for Clean Cities shows that a 10cm increase in bonnet height from 80cm to 90cm results in a 27% greater chance of death for pedestrians run over.

Ironically the reason for the increase in bonnet height was actually EU safety regulations which required car makers to increase the gap between the bonnet. This was because when a pedestrian got hit and their head hit the bonnet there was very little gap between that and the solid engine underneath so their head was effectively hitting the solid engine. The idea of increasing the gap was that it allowed the bonnet to deform more, dissipating the energy and reducing the trauma the head experienced.

Goes on to write an article with a bunch of issues that very few people will actually have. It’s like he’s deliberately gone out of his way to write a karma whoring post on Reddit.

Nokia and Blackberry anyone? Or how about any of the massive social networks that have been and gone? The downfall of a product or a company used by tens of millions of people is usually caused from within.