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In article <3A5BF2B8.86F48EB9@alaska.net>,
Scott Aleckson  <aleckson@alaska.net> wrote:
>Only if you drive like a complete moron.  After 10 years in the
>fire/rescue/ems biz, I can personally say that I've seen many times more
>rollovers involving cars than those involving SUVs.

   There are also many times more car on the road than SUVs.

>The fact is, *ANY* vehicle can roll over if it is not driven properly.  

   That is certainly true.  

   Although, a vehicle with a fairly low center of gravity, we'll call it
   a 'car' for simplicity, will be very hard to roll without tripping it,
   or putting down an embankment.  With a low CoG, the 'car' will be much
   more likely to slide, than to pivot over, at least, on street tires.

   I invite you to try it sometime.  Even my fairly tall Subaru wagon
   will not roll on street tires, unless tripped.  I've spun it a few
   times in evasive manuevers ( avoiding cones while autocrossing ),
   but it just cannot generate enough grip on one side to pivot its
   3500 pounds up in the air.

   Even if there is a scenario under which I could roll it without
   tripping, the point is that a high center of gravity vehicle, say,
   a 'truck', would have gone rubber-side-up dozens of times in the
   same manuevers.

   Any vehicle will roll when tripped, or flipped down a hill; but ones
   with high CoG are rollable all by themselves, and that appears to be
   what this rating system is trying to identify.  ( I'm not necessarily
   in agreement with their method. )

>If you anti-SUV folks would put as much effort into getting proper driver's 
>education back into the schools we might get somewhere.

   I agree with the sentiment, although I don't schools are the place for it.
   Kids don't learn anything else there, I'm not sure adding driving to that
   list will help.

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