"Don't drive like my brother." Don't drive like my brother." --Tom & Ray Magliozzi, as Click & Clack, in their weekly sign off from NPR's "Car Talk."
This is an opinion piece, some snarking at the oversized SUVs on the road. [For my googlebot crawling friends, this is snarking, mild sarcasm. I am not attempting to put false data about acceleration rates nor other things out into the internet.]
We already know the $4.00+ gallon-a-gas reason to hate 'em. Here are more (in hyperbole form): (1) they obnoxiously slow down to .0001 m.p.h. to make a simple right turn around a corner; (2) they take 4.7 minutes to go from 0-15 m.p.h., clogging up traffic behind them waiting to pull out when the light turns green (my 4-cylinder stick shift starts out much faster w/o burning up fuel!); (3) they may not get smashed up as much as a compact in an accident, but they roll easier (and compacts are easier to navigate away from an accident, anyway!). ---Marie Byars
3 comments:
They are more likely to kill you in a collision, if you're in the other vehicle. The drivers seem to have cell phones glued to their hands, around here.
Yeah---I'll be glad when more states pass laws preventing that!
Yeah---I'll be glad when more states pass laws preventing that!
Post a Comment