🚀 go-pugleaf

Interestingly, no one yet has mentioned that you can see much better what is
happening ahead when you are sitting higher. Thus, the possibility of
avoiding 'avoidance manuevers" is better. I pay attention to what is
happening way ahead of me, and rarely have to make serious manuevers.
Obvioulsy, when everyone has a higher vehicle, such advantages go away.

Bob

"Eric Lee Green" <eric@badtux.org> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 20:27:20 -0900, Scott Aleckson <aleckson@alaska.net>
wrote:
> >> SUVs are rollover risks...
> >fire/rescue/ems biz, I can personally say that I've seen many times more
> >rollovers involving cars than those involving SUVs.  The fact is, *ANY*
> >vehicle can roll over if it is not driven properly.  When people drive
>
> I take it that the laws of physics do not apply in your universe?
>
> I can personally attest that a tall truck will roll over during normal
> accident avoidance maneuvers that wouldn't make a car even lean hard.
> I have the scars and achy bones in bad weather to prove it. When you
> combine sluggish, vague steering with a tall center of gravity, you are
> creating a vehicle that is dangerous because you are creating a car
> that can no longer be maneuvered around a blown tire or a piece of
> pipe that's fallen onto the road -- if you blow a tire you flip, and if
> you try to avoid that length of pipe, you flip.
>
> Note that I'm not saying avoid tall trucks. I'm not saying that you
> shouldn't buy a tall truck if that's what you want, if that's what
> feeds your ego or allows you to go down 4x4 roads in the national
> forest to get to your favorite trailheads, or whatever. I'm just
> saying that you're an idiot if you think tall trucks are as safe in
> accident-avoidance situations as passenger cars. They're not. Know
> that when you get into the truck, and you have a better chance of
> living. For one thing, you probably will decide to hit the @#$%@ deer
> that runs out in front of you and take your chances... I wish I had,
> but that was back before manufacturers were required to put rollover
> warnings and I was younger then and didn't think about simple physics.
>
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