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People signal some of this stuff with vehicle and “aesthetic” choice as well. It’s sort of the human equivalent of a dog marking a tree.
by Spooky23 1y ago
People signal some of this stuff with vehicle and “aesthetic” choice as well. It’s sort of the human equivalent of a dog marking a tree.
- nradov 1y agoThere are plenty of signals. For example, Nissan is notorious for being willing to finance "credit criminals" whom other brands won't touch. And while not everyone with a low credit score is also an unsafe driver, the correlation is pretty strong.
- toast0 1y agoI'd imagine most of the worst credit people are buying from buy here, pay here lots. Those lots have all sorts of cars, so I dunno why there would be a brand trend, other than towards lower priced vehicles.
- Spooky23 1y agoOften they have the license plate brackets that identify them. Even then, there’s cars that hit the sweet spot. The Nissan Altima and Dodge Charger are practically meme cars. There’s other metrics as well - sticker density on pickup trucks, the cheapest BMW, etc. It’s not about shaming poor people, it’s early identification of recklessness and bad driving.
- Lyngbakr 1y agoI find drivers of nonwork pickup trucks to be particularly aggressive on the road.
- sellmesoap 1y agoI also associate this with Chrysler/Dodge brands, unreliable cars with a higher then usual number of hotheads behind the wheel. I've seen shady finance stuff from a dealer around here, making numbers work for people who in no way can sustain payments (and later had the car repoed) it's all insured so the dealer laughs all the way... with the bank!?!