• @blazera
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    372 months ago

    Nah, more oil drilling, more trucks and SUVs.

    • Final Remix
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      172 months ago

      They’re just so big and safe!*

      *not for the other drivers, or the pedestrians who get nailed by a rolling wall of a frontend.

      • @laverabe
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        2 months ago

        or in the case of parents buying SUVs to make their own children safe, children are 8 times more likely to die when struck by an SUV versus a passenger car. (ie: in their own driveway) And that’s not even factoring the added risk of blindspots for children too small to be seen from the driver seat!

        children are eight times more likely to die when struck by a SUV compared to those struck by a passenger car

        https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022437522000810

      • @[email protected]
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        52 months ago

        They also have significantly higher rollover risk which is why the best deaths per million kilometer stats belong to big sedans and wagon not SUVs.

      • @P00ptart
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        32 months ago

        “I like driving in a higher position, it makes me feel safer”