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I agree.  YOU shouldn’t be driving a Suburban, but I’m not sure you should even be driving at all.  [b]There is nothing inherently more dangerous about operating one of these begin than anything else on the road. [/b] This is a horrible case of, “I know what’s best for me, and I know what’s best for you too.”  Vehicle selection is just another thing where I think people should mind their own business.[/quote]

That is a factually incorrect statement.

Light trucks and SUVs are more likely to proportionally more likely than cars to be in fatal single-vehicle crashes, especially rollovers.

And pedestrians hit by a light truck or SUV are 2-3 times more likely to be killed than pedestrians hit by cars.

“Pedestrians have a higher risk of death or serious injury when they are struck by an SUV compared to a car,” says Jessica Cicchino, one of the authors of the IIHS report. “SUVs are higher off the ground than cars, they're stiffer, and they have blunter geometry in the front compared with the more sloping front ends of cars. These features of SUVs can lead to more injuries of all types when a pedestrian is struck by an SUV, especially injuries to the chest and head.”

https://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/gov-SUV-rise-pedestrian-deaths.html

I would be happy to mind my own business if you only drove on your own private roads. But you drive on the same roads as everyone else, and so your vehicle selection affects me and everybody else using the roads with you.[/quote]

If the only thing keeping you from rolling your vehicle or mowing down pedestrians is the type of vehicle you drive, please do us all a favor and turn in your license.  [/quote]

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