The evolution of SUVs would be gas if it wasn’t so depressing. John Sayler from the University of Pennsylvania Law school coined a new phrase: “Traffic violence is the second leading cause of death by injury in the US [after gun violence] . . . This toll is not unleashed at random; SUVs and pickups represent a disproportionate danger to other road users, particularly pedestrians and drivers of ordinary passenger cars . . .
In the wake of the 1970s oil crisis the US government tried to force vehicle manufacturers to improve fuel efficiency. But the regulations applied only to vehicles weighing up to six tonnes. So the car industry invented a new kind of car, pumping advertising millions into conjuring light trucks into our cultural idea of a family car.
Even in 2020, when global emissions fell by 7 per cent with lockdowns, emissions from SUV drivers grew by 0.5 per cent. Entitlement to drive comes as standard. Can we take this mindset into the future? Heavy electric SUVs give fewer miles to the kilowatt hour than cars.
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Those driving these monsters should have to sit a special driving test for Dummies...terrible parking, terrible driving, risk to themselves and the public, school runs now a show room of Big Tanks that the Yummy Mummies cannot drive and Jasper the Pretender thinks he can drive...
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