A guess: The Week tried to license this WSJ article for their "last word" column, discussions fell apart and The Week dragooned Ryan Cooper into freestyling on the subject. The WSJ article basically says everything he says, using the same links and statistics. He did link to it on Twitter two days after it was published. That WSJ article has the best quotes: And what if the next administration should issue pickup-pedestrian safety rules? Could the extra tall hoods and bluff grilles, the sightlines, the scale, the very form language of the traditional American pickup ever be made pedestrian safe? “Of course not,” said Ms. Marte. “No way.” So watch yourself at Costco.“The front end was always the focal point,” GM designer Karan Moorjani told Muscle Cars & Trucks e-zine. “We spent a lot of time making sure that when you stand in front of this thing it looks like it’s going to come get you.”
NHTSA proposed that new pedestrian-safety tests for SUVs and trucks be included in the New Car Assessment Program in 2015. But as of this writing, the agency had not issued guidance on new standards. When asked, the industry trade group Alliance for Automotive Innovation had no comment.