re: DU Melt of the Day: "Pickup trucks are too big!"

Perhaps I'm dense today, and it does happen, but did wearing a mask save this person from being hit? Do masks suddenly now also protect you from 4,000 pounds of steel coming your direction? I'm failing to see why their second sentence in this whole diatribe is relevant, other than an excuse to remind everyone on DU how virtuous and part of the clan they are.