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Originally posted by bilmore
Don't have to. I was referring to Easterboy's guesses:
"The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty does not speculate much about why SUVs and pickup trucks crash so much more frequently than regular cars, but the guesses are obvious. First, SUVs and pickups are styled to look cinematically menacing, and thus bring out the worst in drivers, visually egging them on to be hostile and aggressive. Second, owners of SUVs, especially, may falsely believe their vehicles have superior handling or road-holding power. Actually SUVs as a group are less stable than regular cars--as evidenced by roll-overs--because their high centers of gravity more than wipe out any benefits that four-wheel drive may confer. Finally, those sitting at the wheels of SUVs and pickup trucks may drive like lunatics, yakking into the cell phone all the while, because they themselves have fallen for the propaganda about SUVs being safer than regular cars."
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During a recent snowstorm here, someone from the State Patrol was on one of the local news stations urging SUV drivers to drive more carefully because SUVs do not handle the snow (and in particular cannot brake as well) as most SUV drivers think they can, and SUVs were therefore involved in a disproportionate number of accidents.
