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Given the large long roads in the US, there’s always going to be a preference for large vehicles. Especially since there is a strong link between weight/size an

• jMyles 5y ago
  Be reminded that many of us are out here on bikes every day, and that our lives are at risk by the strange proclivities to engineer car-first roads and to drive oversized, heavy, fast vehicles on them (regardless of their means of propulsion). Many municipalities (I'll use my current location of St. Petersburg, FL as an example) are working to make the roads safer in all that ways that you (I assert, incorrectly) presume will never happen.
• alamortsubite 5y ago
  > Given the large long roads in the US, there’s always going to be a preference for large vehicles. Are you sure you don't have that relationship backwards? Similarly, > Especially since there is a strong link between weight/size and safety. Solely for the given vehicle's occupants, and to the detriment of everyone else around them.
  • jmspring 5y ago
    I have a sprinter van for business and a Tacoma for a normal driver. I drive more than some due to distance, not frequency. I also explore remote back/off roads. The sprinter is more susceptible to wind and driving surface variation.
• amluto 5y ago
  You mean how tall vehicles are much less stable in high wind and are much more likely to roll over? Having recently driven a large vehicle and a small vehicle on the highway, I’ll take the small one any day as long as whatever I’m carrying physically fits. Not to mention that the operating cost of the small vehicle is about 1/10 that of the large one.