<story><title>SUVs more dangerous to cyclists than other cars, study suggests</title><url>https://road.cc/content/news/suvs-more-dangerous-cyclists-than-other-cars-300605</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dathinab</author><text>Idk. about the US but where I live in the EU a _lot_ of people think that driving a SUV without needing the off-road capabilities is at least egoistic if not outright asocial.&lt;p&gt;And given that this area (and many others) have &amp;quot;good enough(1)&amp;quot; streets so that the huge majority of people don&amp;#x27;t need the off-road capabilities of a SUV it&amp;#x27;s pretty easy to be for people to assume that you are egoistic or worse when they see you driving a SUV.&lt;p&gt;This bias is probably reinforced by the coincidence(?) that the group of people driving SUVs here has a big overlap with some groups often associated with entitled egoistic behaviour.&lt;p&gt;Somehow it often feels that the people insisting on driving a SUV without a need for it are using it like an armor they ware because they are afraid of the outside world.&lt;p&gt;(1): The requirements for a road to not need a SUV are pretty low IMHO. Sure you might need a &amp;quot;good enough&amp;quot; ground clearance, motor and brakes in mountain areas, but you can get that without an SUV, many (most?) new non-sport cars fall into this category.</text></comment>
<story><title>SUVs more dangerous to cyclists than other cars, study suggests</title><url>https://road.cc/content/news/suvs-more-dangerous-cyclists-than-other-cars-300605</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>suzzer99</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just cyclists. A year ago I saw a middle-aged couple both go up onto the hood of a Prius that was rounding a right turn without looking. I think they were both fine. If it was an SUV they&amp;#x27;d have been knocked forward so hard they&amp;#x27;d have been seriously injured or killed.</text></comment>