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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by odiroot on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:25PM (#21445385)
> SUV/pick-up boom

Not sure why but I see the same here, in Berlin. There is even a meme circling about SUVs being just mothers (usually talking on a phone) driving their kids to school.

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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by wonderwonder on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:17PM (#21446000)
Probably a true meme, I drive an SUV just because it is worlds easier to get young kids in and out of car seats in a higher suv. Had a rental car the other day and it was just unpleasant, constantly hitting my head on the interior ceiling etc.
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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by mxschumacher on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:37PM (#21445525)
I've heard that consumers perceive SUVs as safer
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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by dfsegoat on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:44PM (#21445607)
Consumer Reports seems to back this up, but they cite an added rollover risk:

> "In car vs. SUV head-on crashes, the study found that the odds of death were 7.6 times higher for the car driver than the SUV driver. In crashes where the car had a better front crash-test rating than the SUV did, the car's driver fared a bit better but was still four and a half times more likely to die than the SUV driver. "

> "Choosing an SUV for safety isn't an automatic win, as their higher center of gravity makes them more prone to rollover, an often fatal event. "

[1] - https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/05/suvs-are-sa...

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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by Faark on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:00PM (#21445810)
A criticism is this being at the cost of the other crash participant (due to mass), thus it being a spiral were everyone will drive military tanks a bit down the line.
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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by munificent on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:42PM (#21448014)
> everyone will drive military tanks a bit down the line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummer

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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by NickM on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:10PM (#21445917)
I would say CR doesn't back up the "SUVs are safer" argument; they say SUVs are safer in head-on collisions with smaller vehicles, but don't really indicate whether they're more or less safe overall.
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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by odiroot on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:15PM (#21445973)
*For the people inside the SUV.
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Re:Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Glo... by newnewpdro on Monday November 04, 2019 @02:53PM (#21445722)
larger vehicles afford larger crumple zones
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