Someone suggested that people use different vehicles for different tasks. Sure. I don't drive the beater pickup truck every day but it sure is nice to have when I want to get mulch for the garden or need to get to work in 6" of snow. Small bits fall off if I slam the door too hard, but it gets the job done. 8^)
I think it was the original article for this thread that talked about the safety aspects of SUVs. You can't get around the additional weight or height of large vehicles, SUV or not. That's physics. The performance info got me looking. Car and Driver magazine publishes tables of their road test results. Yes, the sports cars do out accelerate/corner/brake the trucks. I did find it interesting that the braking distances for things like the Ford Expedition and other similar sized vehicles were shorter than for many import sedans of small size, as well as very small cars like the Ford Focus. I don't have the magazine in front of me now, but let me know if you want me to start typing in the data. Mostly, the point of the article seemed to be that people do dumb things because they have a false sense of security. That sounds like the fault of the driver and would happen in any vehicle. A vehicle is a tool, and tools aren't good or bad - that's supplied by the people who use (misuse) them. My favorite part was the "danger" of additional grip in bad weather. By that logic we shouldn't allow snow tires! I still think much of the problem is that the driver license procedure is such a joke in the U.S. When I took my test we never even drove on a road at all! If you look at the smaller SUV type vehicles, the ones that don't share chassis with trucks, there is no matching vehicle in the "car" fleet that offers the features and price point. Until that changes, people will drive SUVs. I don't recall hearing anything like this when minivans were the hot vehicle in the U.S. Other than ride height I don't see much difference between minivans and many of the new SUVs Oh yeah, as to another point in the article, I don't have any cupholders in the truck or in the car I drive instead. Should I feel afraid? ;^) Ed ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
