Bush bars

["Henry Kim" <henry.kim@domain.elided>]

I believe in Australia and in some other juristictions, these bush bars
are now mandated to be made of deformable material like plastic.  This
is in reaction to a number of fatal low-speed collisions involving child
pedestrians.  The bush bars are just about the right height to crush a
kid's skull.  Of course, in a collision with a normal passenger car, the
kid is thrown onto the hood and usually suffers a lower leg injury at
the worst.  I'm talking low-speed hits only of course.

> 
> The ultimate irony? The consumer of SUV is so ill informed he 
> is often 
> persuaded to put on what the Aussies call 'roo bars, and what 
> we Canucks 
> call brush guards at extra cost! These guarantee that the 
> collision of the 
> SUV with anything other than a nice softly deformable car will raise 
> occupant deceleration rates to fatal levels! They also will kill car 
> occupants more readily. They are perfectly legal to sell for 
> street use.

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