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Valid point.
🤔 I wonder if it could have been designed without that part altogether. I've driven one of those flat-fronted Isuzu box trucks before, and it's crazy how much more you can see in front of the vehicle.
The flat front is a tradeoff that tends to make maintenance more difficult
It also removes crumple zone space.
Flat front vehicles tend to have the driver sitting over the wheels, which raises their height off the street, a real pain if you are climbing in and out of the car 50 times a day.
Ah. I know almost nothing about EV maintenance, but considering how many decades USPS used the Grumman, yeah probably best to minimize maintenance costs/work
I'm certainly no expert in the matter, it's just that these seem well designed in general, and they obviously didn't shy away from design choices out of fear of looking stupid, so they must have conside tred a flat front and decided against it for some decent reason.
One other one that comes to mind, now that I'm thinking on it again: if you do hit a pedestrian or cyclist, they're likely to go under a flat-fronted vehicle, but end up on the hood of a vehicle with a low hood