That is because you believe all the misinformation put out by the environuts about SUVs. The ever falling death and injury rates among children, over the past ten years, is attributed by the NHTSA to the fact more of them are riding in the larger, safer, SUVs
The center of gravity is located in centered in the drive on any vehicle. The difference in the center of gravity in an SUV, vis a v the standard sedan, is less that two inches and one of those inches is attributed to the average larger wheel size. If a higher center of gravity indeed was actually a cause of vehicles rolling over, one should expect to see, mini busses, cargo vans, box trucks and six wheelers rolled over every day of the week. LOL
Jane wrote:
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>> When you drive a busy highway to work everyday, you just feel safer when
>> you are bigger and higher.
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> How so? You have a higher center of gravity meaning that maintaining
> control when swerving to avoid an obstacle is much more difficult. You
> can't stop your vehicle as fast, you can't accelerate as fast.
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> I don't know about you, but if the vehicle I was driving was like that,
> I'd feel much *less* safe.