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Article #1940Re: SUVs are predators; bicycles are prey
From: John Beardmore
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 17:51
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 17:51
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In article <3ddfb7ff.3237015@news.starpower.net>, Jaybird <Jaybird@nospam.com> writes >On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 08:34:10 -0800, "Jeff Strickland" ><CRWLRJEFF@YAHOO.COM> wrote: >>Would you have posted this tragic story if the automobile was was a Mustang >>or Camaro or Porsche? >> >>I find it utterly moronic for you to suggest that the SUV was somehow >>responsible for an accident between a teen driver and a teen on a bike. > >Well, you could profit from closer attention to the issue. A major >contention of those who object to oversize SUVs is their effect on >their own drivers' mentalities. What evidence do they have ? > The sheer size of these behemoths >tends to create in their drivers a sense of impregnability which often >seems to be followed by a near-total disregard for the rights of other >drivers. Drivers are relatively impregnable in most vehicles. I don't think my attitude is much different when I drive Nissan Micra or a 7500kg truck, except I have to take more care in the truck because it more blind spots and some stuff on the roof that has to be remembered. >Far be it from me to defend the average Mustang or Camaro driver, btw, >but I think their own particular psychological problems are different >in kind and in magnitude from those of the average SUV driver. :) Well, kind anyway... >FWIW, I have driven SUVs and noticed the sme effect on myself, and I >am a notoriously kind and gentle human being. </sarcasm> So that's a statistical sample of one then ! Cheers, J/. -- John Beardmore
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