Gone is the excuse that you need a 90k escalade suv to be “safe” on the road.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t SUVs not safe to being with? As in it was all marketing and warped perception?
It really depends on the car and its safety features. There are 5 star compacts and 5 star SUVs. There are also 1 star cars and SUVs.
Yeah, of course. That’s basically what I meant: that some people buy SUVs on the assumption that they’re intrinsically safer, which is not true.
The intrinsic safer comes from mass. In car vs car collision, a 1 star giant SUV will roll over top a 5 star compact and be fine. However if the 1 star SUV hits a tree, guardrail, etc, the 1star passengers will be harmed/die where the 5 star compact car passengers in the same accident will survive.
EMISSION STANDARDS EMISSION STANDARDS EMISSION STANDARDS
The rise of large cars has never had anything to do with safety or more storage space or anything even remotely like any of that.
Emission standards are based on size and weight. So instead of giving a fuck about environmental damage they just started making everything bigger. And since Americans are especially susceptible to “BIG TRUCK MAKE ME FEEL LIKE BIG BOY” it’s most prevalent there.
