• @Feweroptions@sh.itjust.works
    cake
    link
    fedilink
    -13
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Also - the mass and form of an SUV makes them a good option in terms of safety. Smaller vehicles get crunched like pop cans, and trucks get sandwiched by their own bed if you hit a solid object.

    • @RBWells@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      151 year ago

      Making yourself safer by making everyone else less safe still seems like an asshole move to me?

      Bumper height should have been regulated on city roads, then we wouldn’t have gotten this escalation. Work truck, sure. If you need one, you need one. But people who drive a massive gas guzzler to park it at the office and go up the elevator to work?

    • @Trapadana@lemmy.world
      cake
      link
      fedilink
      21 year ago

      Actually no. SUVs are great at murdering the drivers of other cars, they do not in fact protect you any better. Its just a big blow up dick for assholes.

    • @ccunix@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      1
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Not sure that makes any difference really. As I said, the actually difference between my (admittedly mini) SUV and its corresponding saloon/hatchback is a few cm at most. Also, they all meet the same safety standards.

      The difference between a proper car (BMW, Renault, etc) and a crap one (Dacia, Hyundai, etc) will make more difference than whether it is an SUV or a saloon. In either case, if the car was is newer than ~2000 it will be infinitely safer than what our parents shoved us into anyway.