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[-] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Nope, purely emotional buying:

... occupant death rate was 6% higher in SUVs than in conventional cars, and 8% in the biggest ones.

... children are eight times more likely to die when struck by an SUV compared with an average passenger car.

... “These figures suggest that SUVs were probably killing around an extra 3,000 people in the US a year at that time – more than died at 9/11,” write Simms and Murray. Roughly a third of those died in SUV rollovers, and another third from being hit by one. The final third were being killed by respiratory problems because of the extra pollution caused by SUVs.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/05/monsters-of-the-road-what-should-the-uk-do-about-suvs

[-] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Eh most of your points kinda proves my point of how we have been sacrificing pedestrian safety for driver safety the only considerable counterpoint you brought up is how SUVs are more prone to rollover and from what I understand about cars getting bigger is so crashing is less deadly but by being bigger you also make crashing more inevitable so I guess that's a bit of a stalemate argument

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