Exactly what is wrong with SUV's
I spent some time driving over the holidays, and came up against a surprising amount of SUV's, tearing around on dirt roads towing boats, jet-skis, etc. The below rant I ran across on the intertubes sums up by feelings perfectly
SUV’s are ethically objectionable not only due to their inefficient use of resources, but also because they create serious safety issues for drivers who use normal-sized vehicles. People who buy SUV’s without a compelling practical reason – that is, the vast majority of them – value their right to a bit more comfort or ego reassurance more highly than the safety of their fellow citizens. Public roads are one of the few common areas that necessity compels most of us to share. The fact that so many of my fellow citizens are perfectly content to take up a disproportionate amount of public space, while simultaneously creating a less safe driving environment for those of us who use normal-sized vehicles that meet practical, not ego-based requirements, is indicative of the overweening self-absorption and contempt for others that is in the process of destroying our political and economic systems. SUV’s are a class of vehicle born out of government import loopholes and the creative and technical failures of an automotive industry on its last legs. The fact that so many Americans choose, for no practical reason, to drive them, is just one of the signs of a populace so practiced in willful self-deception that even the most mundane decisions are skewed towards ethical and economic idiocy.
