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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also, with large vehicles more generally, there's this awful snowball effect where people go "I get to sit up high and it's bigger, so I feel safer! Besides, when I'm in a regular car I feel like I'm going to get crushed like a beer can."

This of course ignores that:

  1. Pedestrians are fucked
  2. With everyone buying bigger, heavier vehicles, the energy involved in most collisions is significantly greater and I doubt anyone's much safer for it. People in smaller cars just get screwed.
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Also it's an arms race. They feel safer because they're comparatively above smaller cars, but then when everyone is riding tall trucks that additional feeling of safety becomes moot as you no longer have the additional height/visibility over everyone else.

And conversely, the reason they feel less safe in smaller cars is because of the comparison to larger cars on the road. They aren't solving anything in a larger vehicle, they're just perpetuating onto others what gave them small-vehicle anxiety in the first place.

The whole concept is stupid, basically.