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At a certain point tho, if everyone else is driving a truck, you either drive a compact out of pure moral-high-ground spite or you get a truck/full-size SUV as

At a certain point tho, if everyone else is driving a truck, you either drive a compact out of pure moral-high-ground spite or you get a truck/full-size SUV as well to even your chances of survival. I'm not saying escalation is a Good Thing™, only that it's inevitable when people are culturally obsessed with driving absurd bullshit.

mcv 7y ago
Or you keep driving a sensible car because you don't want to give in to the stupid and prefer to spend your money elsewhere.
walterstucco666 7y ago
Yeah, f*ck pedestrians or people who can't afford to waste 50k to buy a wannabe tank. What's next, people driving real tanks?
braythwayt 7y ago
Or you do the math and realize that with a modern, safe automobile, your chance of dying in an accident with a pickup is so small that upgrading your own vehicle to a pickup is a rounding error. To be clear, I agree that humans being humans, we do love to get into escalating arms races.
- abawany 7y ago
  I've seen at least 3 reports in my area where a head-on collision with an impaired driver (in the truck) usually ended up killing or seriously injuring the passengers in this 'modern, safe automobile'. Some examples: * https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/drunk-driver-who-killed-three-in-2017-crash-sentenced-to-18-years/ https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/drunk-driver-who-kill... * https://www.kxan.com/traffic/two-children-killed-in-cedar-park-crash-on-w-whitestone-blvd/ https://www.kxan.com/traffic/two-children-killed-in-cedar-pa... * https://www.kxan.com/top-stories/two-from-austin-dead-after-crash-south-of-dallas-ft-worth/ https://www.kxan.com/top-stories/two-from-austin-dead-after-... * https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/married-only-minutes-texas-newlyweds-killed-in-crash/ https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/married-only-minutes-texas-n...
VvR-Ox 7y ago
It is an arms race and it is the right time for the industry to use the growing fear and demand for security in the global population to make some extra $$$ (just seen from a purely economical point of view of course). I agree that it is probably inevitable but there is also people who don't join the race and that is lifting my hopes.

mcv 7y ago

Or you keep driving a sensible car because you don't want to give in to the stupid and prefer to spend your money elsewhere.

walterstucco666 7y ago

Yeah, f*ck pedestrians or people who can't afford to waste 50k to buy a wannabe tank. What's next, people driving real tanks?

braythwayt 7y ago

Or you do the math and realize that with a modern, safe automobile, your chance of dying in an accident with a pickup is so small that upgrading your own vehicle to a pickup is a rounding error. To be clear, I agree that humans being humans, we do love to get into escalating arms races.

abawany 7y ago
I've seen at least 3 reports in my area where a head-on collision with an impaired driver (in the truck) usually ended up killing or seriously injuring the passengers in this 'modern, safe automobile'. Some examples: * https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/drunk-driver-who-killed-three-in-2017-crash-sentenced-to-18-years/ https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/drunk-driver-who-kill... * https://www.kxan.com/traffic/two-children-killed-in-cedar-park-crash-on-w-whitestone-blvd/ https://www.kxan.com/traffic/two-children-killed-in-cedar-pa... * https://www.kxan.com/top-stories/two-from-austin-dead-after-crash-south-of-dallas-ft-worth/ https://www.kxan.com/top-stories/two-from-austin-dead-after-... * https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/married-only-minutes-texas-newlyweds-killed-in-crash/ https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/married-only-minutes-texas-n...

VvR-Ox 7y ago

It is an arms race and it is the right time for the industry to use the growing fear and demand for security in the global population to make some extra $$$ (just seen from a purely economical point of view of course). I agree that it is probably inevitable but there is also people who don't join the race and that is lifting my hopes.