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> Again in that mindset, why would you volunteer to die in an accident you didn't cause? Because I would rather die than kill. I honestly can't understand how

• grues-dinner 2y ago
  Firstly there's a lot of people out there, often in inexplicably clean pickup trucks, who have 4-letter words for that. Secondly, this mindset is also considering at in a collision with a larger vehicle, like a truck, the SUV means possible survival, small car means certain death, and the trucker walks away anyway (no, that's not a guarantee but it's heavily implied by the "big is safe" message). The fate of a hypothetical small car is only a subset of possibilities, and also can be mostly discounted because: Thirdly, if you are driving an urban tank in order to defend against the bad drivers (you being, naturally, a very good driver), anyone who dies in a crash with you killed themselves. It's your job to defend you and yours (going by SUV adverts, they're very photogenic and adoring) from that brutal recklessness. I don't think it's complicated psychology, even if I think it's extremely misguided. Not least, the tank is disproportionately a danger to your own kids, has shit visibility and is probably not as safe in a collision as it might feel, leading to a false sense of invulnerability and confidence to push into dangerous situations.