Bumper
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A bumper is a part of a car designed to withstand the impact from collisions. Most bumpers were made of rubber, but increasingly bumpers are made of painted metal, causing even slight collisions (usually during parking) to leave marks.
The fun of bumping one car into another led to the creation of bumper cars at amusement parks. These small cars are designed to fit one or at most two people and crashed into each other consistently.
Recently, the advent of SUVs has led to the installation of large metal grills as part of a vehicle's bumper, increasing the damage caused on other vehicles/cyclists/pedestrians in a collision. It is largely because of such enlarged bumpers that SUVs are twice as likely to kill pedestrians they hit as are cars at equal speeds; this is an example of crash incompatibility.
