More than 40% of electric vehicle crashes involve pedestrians or cyclists | VRT NWS: news

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2026/08/28/more-than-40-of-electric-vehicle-crashes-involve-pedestrians-or/

The percentage of accidents involving vulnerable road users is bigger for EVs than for petrol cars. This is partly due to how quiet EVs are, says traffic institute

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okamiueru@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 24d

It's more constructive when highlighted causal relationships overlap the desired issue to improve. Here, one might be mislead to think that putting external speakers on EVs that make vroom-vroom sounds is the way to go, and not improve the infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists.