Libby Liberal's Journal: Drive An SUV Today, Kill Your Children Tomorrow

Drivers unaware of rear blindspots accidentally backing over more small children, experts say.

I've never met an SUV driver who needed to be driving an SUV, and the same problem affects a large number of pickup drivers as well. In fact, just for fun, I ran my own little non-scientific experiment the other day. In a matter of a quarter mile, I was passed by six SUVs. None of them had more passengers than the driver, none were hauling anything, and none were towing anything. On one of them, an Escalade, I noticed that the tires were even something more akin to the sort of tires you would see on a sports car meant to be driven on a dry road at high speed.

They always seem to be driving these vehicles for no particular reason. I suspect it's a matter of the Jones's and snake-oil salesmen saying the SUV was "just what they needed for their family".

It's sad, but it's not surprising. This is the sort of thing that happens when you make decisions based on such ostentatious and superficial qualities.

I thought that would be common sense

[StalinsNotDead]

Huge vehicles have huge blind spots. Isn't that why vehicles over a certain tonnage are now required to make that beeping noise if they are in reverse?

And this from the article:

Champion thinks systems like these should be required on all larger vehicles.

But DeFore disagrees, citing the cost.

"If we take the attitude that any new technology, down the road, should just be mandated because it saved a few lives," he sad, "that is very dangerous public policy because you just start pricing vehicles well beyond wh

Hi

[pudge]

I've never met an SUV driver who needed to be driving an SUV

Hi, I'm pudge. I often transport three large dogs and four humans. I often drive through thick snow that is impassable without a four-wheel drive vehicle. An all-wheel-drive minivan is too unsafe, and any other non-SUV vehicle is too small.