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Originally Posted by Xist
I think that should have been phrased a little better. You are talking to a protective parent. We keep having this debate on here. People like their opinions and like holding onto them.
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I agree, I was a bit over the top, his vehicle isn't lifted, but many are.
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Smartcars have five-star crash ratings, too.
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Only when hitting something at the same level, bumper to bumper, car to brick wall. Once you crash a lifted 4x4 into that same smart car, all occupants die and the 4x4 just runs straight over the top of that smart car as if it wasn't even there.
There is no reason why he cannot simply improve the safety of his smaller car with the use of an internal or external rollcage if he is so concerned about safety.
I intend upon doing the same to my car eventually.
I am a protective over my passengers too, my passengers aren't any less or better than anybody elses.
However SUV and 4x4 drivers who drive in Suburban areas with a lifted vehicle are
selfish at the least and murderers in the worst,
irregardless of weather or not they are a
parent, because they aren't taking into consideration the fact that their vehicle is
DEADLY when lifted.
There is a great deal of ignorance surrounding this topic. Everybody thinks that just because it has a so-and-so star rating it therefore must be safe in all circumstances, NOT TRUE!.
In my region I see people die all of the time because of 4x4's hitting the side of small compacts or sedans and the occupants of the latter dying.
Every night I go to bed hoping that tomorrow I don't lose my passenger, or my own life.
Because this is what I see all of the time:
And right at about the height of the number plate is where
my head is in my car.
Steel vs Skull is not a fair fight.
There is no excuse to own a 4x4 unless you use the bed of the truck every day, There is
no excuse to be driving them in
Suburban areas without cargo and only
one driver and no passengers, which is what these idiots do all of the time in my region.
If you are just driving passengers around then do what everybody else does and get a passenger car.
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Thanks for sharing the video. I really need to learn how to fly. That would solve all kinds of problems, like not being a lab rat.
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Or a statistic? I've had the pleasure to spend a few nights in a ward of a hospital, at night while listening to the people who had broken bones I realized that vehicles truly are weapons.
Count how many 4x4's you can see. Then count how many SUV's you can see.
This was taken in a major city.
And this is what the car owners are like: