It's completely backwards to argue that because some people drive faux assault vehicles, so should everyone else. By that logic, every time some manufacturer comes out with a larger monster the rest of us should go out and buy something even bigger. Where does it end? When we all have tanks and locomotives just to go to the grocery store? When every vehicle has a grenade launcher?
The problem isn't the safe driver or the small car. It's those troglodytes who think that their "freedom" and "manliness" is expressed by buying a truck that gets 8 mpg and can blast everyone else out of their way because their gas taxes paid for more of the road and their cell phone call is the most important conversation on earth.
The manufacturers are just as guilty by promoting these hulking monstrosities as "safe" when the reality is that they only make drivers FEEL safe - witness the H3, the 2 Mazdas that failed crash tests, etc. etc. Forbes has reported that more and more designers are playing "Me Too" with higher beltlines, smaller windows and raised rear ends, all to enhance a cocooned FEELING of safety when in reality what they're doing is just creating huge blind spots!
We've somehow been conditioned to think that it doesn't matter if we ARE safe so long as we FEEL safe, that we can drive whatever we want regardless of the effects on other drivers or the environment, and that all this juvenile selfishness has no consequences. We've gotten fat, dumb, and happy (literally!) and can't see it. But the rest of the world can - why is anyone surprised at $100+ oil and buck-fifty euros?
Detroit’s Blind Spot
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