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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I didn't base my conclusion that people in SUVs do better in accidents than people in cars on one anecdote. I cited that as one example. My point is actually proven in part by your argument, which admits that, in an accident, an SUV owner has greater mass. Greater mass often = better chance of surviving.
Are you suggesting the lives saved as a result of people being in SUVs aren't a valid offset against those you claim are taken by SUVs? That's an interesting methodology. I'd like you to do my taxes. It also assumes, quite arrogantly, that SUVs cannot benefit people more than the shrill anti-SUVers claim they damage them. You don't know and can't prove that SUVs cause more deaths than they prevent. That position, which you cite as though it were fact, is a popular belief touted by anti-SUV people, whose supporting information (if any) most assuredly does not offset the deaths caused by the deaths prevented. You're offering a piece of politically correct rhetoric as fact.
Show me a study confirming deaths caused outweigh deaths prevented.
I see no prisoner's dilemna except the one a certain group of people want to find.
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That increased mass has a high center of gravity that makes SUVs inclined to roll over. And because SUVs are classified as "light trucks", there were all sorts of passenger-safety regs they didn't have to comply with.
I'm not anti-SUV, but there are tons and tons of studies that show the same thing: SUVs increase danger to their occupants and the occupants of other vehicles.
