19th Jan 2007, 13:08

You don't seem to understand statistics as well as you think you do. You would suggest that the second you turn the key in an SUV, you may as well put a gun to your own head and pull the trigger. Rubbish! Your so-called argument that you can't control what other people will do applies equally well to any vehicle, or life in general for that matter. In the end, ALL vehicles are inherently unsafe at some level because controlling several thousand pounds of machinery at 60 mph introduces magnitudes of risk beyond simply walking down the sidewalk, or remaining on the couch without ever going outside your home. In the past 20 years, I have had every variety of daily driver from 20-year-old wrecks (with no power steering, power brakes, or even shoulder belts), to large SUV's, to '70s-era muscle cars, to a current 2002 Ford Explorer. Any guesses as to how many rollovers, crashes, injuries, other people I've killed, or how many times I have been killed in any of those vehicles? That's right---ZERO. Not so much as a scratched fender, a trip into the ditch, or even a spilled drink from these "inherently unsafe, rollover-prone death traps" as you love to continually refer to them. So obviously there is a large flaw in your over-reliance on quoting statistics to support your claims. Can you figure out what it is? If not, it would appear that you're just some guy who likes to rant about SUVs on a website because he has nothing better to do at the insurance office where he works.