Large trucks are the third-largest vehicle sales segment in the U.S., after compact and midsize SUVs.

More than 1 in 4 car shoppers in Texas and Wyoming have committed to paying more than $1,000 a month, and experts say it is due to the high volume of large truck purchases in those states, according to a report by auto site Edmunds.

More than 1 in 5 shoppers in seven other states — Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota and Utah — are also forking over more than $1,000 for their vehicles each month.

  • @ShittyRedditWasBetterEnglish
    -4•1 year ago

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1730245/

    The nanny state loves to exaggerate 🙄.

    Passenger cars and light trucks (vans, pickups, and sport utility vehicles) accounted for 46.1% and 39.1%, respectively, of the 4875 deaths, with the remainder split among motorcycles, buses, and heavy trucks.

    7% delta. The really aren’t that much more dangerous than cars.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•1 year ago

        Large trucks in this instance are things like 18-wheelers, not trucks like the Ford F-150 or Dodge Ram.

          • @ShittyRedditWasBetterEnglish
            -1•1 year ago

            👌👍 let me know when you find that recent data. This is the often stated report for decades due to the lack of research. I’m quite confident you won’t find contradictory data in modern study, but if you do I’m 100% open to it.

            What I find particularly funny is you just assume the slight increase in mass is going to make a larger impact than backup cameras front bumper cameras, and pedestrian avoidance systems (typically the most cited as dengerous due to blind spots) in addition to modern driving aids and a lower center of gravity from that generation…

            It’s quite an assumption.