One pretty big factor to these getting bought is due to safety and for that reason I feel like we as a society has prioritized driver safety that we have sacrificed pedestrian safety
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Nope, purely emotional buying:
... occupant death rate was 6% higher in SUVs than in conventional cars, and 8% in the biggest ones.
... children are eight times more likely to die when struck by an SUV compared with an average passenger car.
... “These figures suggest that SUVs were probably killing around an extra 3,000 people in the US a year at that time – more than died at 9/11,” write Simms and Murray. Roughly a third of those died in SUV rollovers, and another third from being hit by one. The final third were being killed by respiratory problems because of the extra pollution caused by SUVs.”
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I'd argue that it sacrifices the safety of any other car that's smaller than it too, with sudans being the most vulnerable. No way a bumper difference of feet allows for the smaller car's safety features to work as intended if not bypassed entirely.
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You've gotta compensate your penis size with your car. This is just basic science.
I've seen big utes around the Australian suburb where I live and thought they were bad enough. These things seem to be on a whole other level
That truck is also raised. I drive a 'normal' size SUV and once drove past one of those raised trucks in a parking lot - its hood was as high as my roof.
