> They are simply following the market. This is badly misinformed. They make the market. When you buy a car, do you have it custom made, or do you select one t

> They are simply following the market. This is badly misinformed. They make the market. When you buy a car, do you have it custom made, or do you select one that actually exists? That's exactly what happened with SUVs. SUVs didn't happen because people were begging car companies to make them something big, dangerous, and wasteful. They happened because car companies in the US found a legal loophole where they could cut costs by skirting safety and emissions regulations, while simultaneously marking up the product as a premium one. Then they ran ads to tell people SUVs were super safe [for the passengers]. So when people started buying SUVs en masse, that wasn't organic demand, it was the result of a successful national misinformation campaign (because modern SUVs and other "light trucks" are so large you're more likely to just drive over your own child without seeing them than even get in a crash).