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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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Did anyone see last week's ER episode about the guy who had a heart attack while driving his Hummer and killed a bunch of people? 'Twas written by my sister-in-law. She and my brother don't much care for SUVs. Liberal media bias indeed.
Str(still driving the white horse)8
