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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s
(www.nytimes.com)
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A typical US problem, quantity over quality.
It's not quite so straightforward. The United States has a deeply broken culture (hyperindividualism, for one thing), and these giant vehicles offer individual balm for the systemic rot. That's why we can them emotional support vehicles.
Over here they say: small man syndrome. Or compensation model: small dick, big car.
If you can't make it better, make it bigger!