• Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Buyers feel safer in a taller car, and car dealers are happy to sell this bullshit, even though SUVs are far more likely to roll over in a crash.

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      6 months ago

      The reason people feel safer in a taller car is because of everyone else that has a tall car.

      The driving american seems to use the mutually assured destruction doctrine from the cold war as a how to guide rather than a warning.

      Worse, this is spreading ocer to Europe as well, though governments are starting to tax heavier vehicles more than normal vehicles, and that is fantastic.

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        6 months ago

        One of the funniest things in the world to me is that I first saw an Aston Mini in I think the Bourne Identity in the late 00s. Or maybe it was some other Spy Thriller from around the same time?

        Fast forward to today and there is now an American version, still called a Mini, that is just as big as every other SUV.

        https://www.motorbiscuit.com/american-trucks-suvs-almost-bigger-world-war-ii-tanks/

        These are not exactly precise, and I cannot believe I am actually citing the DailyMail, but you get the idea: