Congress sat back and let trucks become heavier, taller, and deadlier. Now pedestrian fatalities are at a 40-year high.

• American trucks are becoming taller, heavier, and more dangerous to pedestrians.
• As trucks get bigger and bigger, so do the blind zones in the front and to the side of the cars.
• Experts and one member of Congress have suggested requiring vehicles to possess pedestrian-detecting technology.

Canadian civil engineering technologist Myles Russell put his pen to paper and spent over 100 hours calculating the sightlines of various vehicles.

He didn't expect to find that an M1 Abrams battle tank had better a sightline than some everyday trucks.