• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    4 hours ago

    “Normal” SUVs are something like 70% more likely to kill the pedestrian in a collision with one that cars like sedans.

    SUVs are anti-social cars.

    IMHO, it’s a great example that The Law isn’t really done to protect common people that those things are allowed on the road when they’re actually unecessary (unlike, say, delivery vans) and almost twice as deadly for other people than normal cars.

    • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      36 minutes ago

      Yeah, that’s exactly my point, and there are loads of statistics supporting out claims, yet the automotive industry still has way too much influence so roads are being widened and public transport isn’t improved enough and made cheaper. At least here in the Netherlands a lot is done to improve medestriab and cycling infrastructure, and ways to reduce cars in cities (or sometimes van them completely) but nothing is done about the massive tank death trap SUV’s, usually with a driver more interested in his phone than driving safely (because chance of injury is low while driving it, fuck the rest right… FFS)