That’s crazy, especially given superior visibility in an SUV.
"People driving or riding in a sport utility vehicle in 2003 were nearly 11 percent more likely to die in an accident than people in cars."https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/17/business/safety-gap-grows-wider-between-suv-s-and-cars.html …
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Not crazy at all. Higher centre of gravity ergo less stability. More mass ergo more momentum. Combine the two, you get a car that's less reactive and more prone to rolling over than a saloon.
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I often think about how useless the crash safety ratings are when you're a small car and the other person is in an SUV. That's why I tend to sway towards SUV. That and greater visibility.
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Did you even read it? They’re more likely to flip over in a crash.
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It’s not the SUV it’s the people who drive SUVs
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impossible to check until we run an experiment where we ask different kind of people to run into a wall :)
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What about today?
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The article was published in August 2004
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