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Re:Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of ... by Alex3917 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @07:57PM (#28270895)
The other issue is that due to the crumbling state of U.S. infrastructure, normal cars with ~5.5 inch ground clearance are basically impossible to drive without ruining them by bottoming out all the time. I have zero desire to have an SUV or crossover with ~8.5 inches of ground clearance, but unfortunately there are very limited options with 6.5 or 7 inches.
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Re:Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of ... by sokoloff on Sunday August 22, 2021 @08:11PM (#28270978)
> ruining them by bottoming out all the time

My daily driver has a spec of 5.9” ground clearance. In 21K miles, I don’t think I’ve ever scraped the bottom (except on snow piles, which aren’t an infrastructure issue).

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Re:Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of ... by lttlrck on Sunday August 22, 2021 @09:48PM (#28271584)
Where do you live? My factory spec 4-door sedan has 5" clearance at the front and I've never had a clearance issue. It's pretty low but it's not even a sports car
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Re:Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of ... by Alex3917 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @10:03PM (#28271636)
Connecticut. To be fair the most common issues I have are where the bottom of driveways meets the road, and also going over manhole covers during road milling. In the latter case you can obviously also just go around them, but it's much safer if you can just drive over them rather than swerving erratically between lanes.
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Re:Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of ... by feteru on Sunday August 22, 2021 @11:19PM (#28272000)
So basically impossible = on private driveways or when they're doing improvements? This seems like a mindset I see a lot of thinking you need more car than you really do
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Re:Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of ... by Alex3917 on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:14AM (#28272774)
I mean don’t most people use private driveways and milled roads on a near daily basis?
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Re:Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of ... by epistasis on Sunday August 22, 2021 @08:02PM (#28270923)
Most SUVs or crossovers (especially crossovers) don't even have very good clearance compared to smaller cars, it seems.
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Re:Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of ... by zdragnar on Sunday August 22, 2021 @09:48PM (#28271580)
My wife's daily driver is a kia optima with 5.3" of ground clearance. Road quality has never been a problem and we have driven it to at least a dozen states, and to get to our house requires driving 1/3 a mile of gravel road.
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Re:Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of ... by eropple on Sunday August 22, 2021 @09:50PM (#28271590)
I drive a Hyundai Veloster with 5.6in of ground clearance and in five years of ownership I've never bottomed it out once in either urban or rural driving. I'm not sure this is a reasonable characterization.
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