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I hate them in front of me, or next to me in my parking spot, because I can no longer see the road in front of me or, in terms of the parking spot, whether I'm backing up into traffic. I hate them when we're at a busy intersection and cars are turning left, and I would be able to easily get around them on the right, but the giant SUV in front of me can't get around them on the right, so I sit there through 3 light cycles, too. I hate that they are frequently parked outside the lines in parking spaces. I hate that I can't see why we have come to a complete stop on the freeway because all I can see is the giant a** of the SUV in front of me. I hate driving behind giant SUVs with tinted back windows, because on a sunny day it is like someone is shining a spotlight directly into my eyes. I hate when they get behind me and try to bully me into going faster knowing their headlights are directly in my eyes. The bullying behavior to try to get me to go faster during our snowstorms this winter was awful. Go live in Montana if you want to drive your SUV in the snow like the guy in the commercial does.
Is that enough, lol?
This covers all my reasons. Well stated.
Large black SUV's (esp with tinted windows) are the worst. Those drivers are clearly playing out some action movie villain fantasy.
Pickups have been on the American roadway since before the 1930s and all of a sudden people are complaining about them, they have been around long before we were all born. Like I say I love large comfortable pickups and SUV’s because I know I can go places were a car can’t go at anytime. I’ve rescued more than one idiot car driver from snowbanks who thought that their car was a lifted 4x4. And when I did rescue them they were happy I had my big 4x4 pickup.
They were not as large/wide as they are now, they didn't have tinted back windows back then, the headlights weren't as bright then, there weren't as many of them on the road, parking spaces were larger then, and people didn't bully others in them back then. Not justifying anything, but there are reasons people complain about them now and not so much in the past.
I think it was the H1 Hummer that started the hatred. Arnold Schwarzenegger was the first to show off his H1 back in the early 90s, I remember many people joking about why someone needed such a large, capable vehicle, when most drivers never leave the pavement.
I dont really care what someone chooses to drive, but have to admit, its kind of foolish to drive some huge 8 passenger behemoth when they do not really need it, but hey, if they want to be wasteful, its their money, not mine.
Hummers are a whole different category. They are like the stupid pickups jacked up on giant tractor tires (which IMO should be illegal, as they have decapitated people in rear-end collisions), i.e. men trying to "compensate" for something, lol. I wouldn't put them in the same category. Yes, it seemed stupid to spend that much to buy a military-type vehicle made to drive through jungles and other rough terrain just to go to Starbucks and Sam's Club in. Especially considering their poor reliability.
You are crazy if you think large SUVs drive up gas prices, so you think the FBI and the secret service are soccer moms they all drive big Tahoe’s or Suburbans. And what do you think Fire departments drive tree hugger cars. If you don’t like large SUV’s than stay out of their way. They have the same right to be on the road as your little clown cars.
You get your F in economics for the day.
When gas goes to $5/gallon, there will be plenty of bargains on full size pickups and body-on-frame SUVs.
They were not as large/wide as they are now, they didn't have tinted back windows back then, the headlights weren't as bright then, there weren't as many of them on the road, parking spaces were larger then, and people didn't bully others in them back then. Not justifying anything, but there are reasons people complain about them now and not so much in the past.
And you don’t think cars don’t have dark tinted windows or headlights that blind on comming traffic, you are just going to have to get use to it that’s the way automakers make them know to satisfy cafe and safety standards mandated by the federal government. When i lived in Florida all vehicles including cars had dark tinted windows, so if parking space are to small complain to the complex that had them. And the same can be said about smaller cars on the road that like to play chicken with larger vehicles on the road. This complain about large SUVs and pickups can go both ways you know. I’ve seen plenty of fools wizing in and out of lanes in smaller cars thinking they owned the road.
When gas goes to $5/gallon, there will be plenty of bargains on full size pickups and body-on-frame SUVs.
I don’t think so and you said that it was people driving big SUVs and pickups that were driving the prices up at the pump. You really think oil companies are raising gas prices because people are driving big SUVs and pickups. We hav been through this rodeo before and the big SUVs and pickups get better gas mileage than those of past high gas prices.
That may be true of some people. I don't hate SUVs or SUV owners or SUV drivers. But I do respond to them differently than I do other vehicles. My own response to big SUVs is driven by the simple fact that they hinder visibility for everyone not in a big SUV or big truck. Visibility is your friend when it comes to the road. So SUV drivers, whether they want to or not, increase their visibility at the cost of others' visibility.
I am a pretty nice driver. I tend to let in people if they signal (which lets me know) that they are trying to change lanes. I even do that for 18-wheelers on the freeway, because I know they, too, sometimes need to pass a slower vehicle. I don't speed up to get ahead of them. And 18-wheelers pass and then move back over. SUV drivers often act like they have cars and can drive as fast and as nimbly as others--which means they routinely block the left lane once they get into it. Thus, as long as it is safe to do so, I do not let SUVs in, I do like most people do for all other vehicles, I speed up to stay ahead of 'em. Why? Because once they get ahead of me in my lane I can't see unless I slow enough to fall twice as far behind them as I would safely be behind any other vehicle. And that creates danger for others behind me and for me (possibly being rear-ended).
What really should happen is SUVs should be deemed HPVs--high profile vehicles--and that designation should have implications for their use on the freeway and on surface streets. On the freeway, they should be prohibited from the far left lane on the highway, because in the left lane they reduce visibility for the very lane designated for higher speeds and thus designated to need more visibility. Their presence in the left lane is, thus, a contradiction. On surface streets SUVs should be prohibited from being parked closer than twenty feet from a cross-walk, because they lower visibility of and for pedestrians. These are laws a rational society would adopt, because of, you know, physics. It has long been clear, however, that we do not live in a rational society. So, . . ..
I know some people for some reasons have to drive SUVs. I have no problem with that. And if someone wants to spend their money on an SUV, I have no problem with that--no one needs to "prove" to me they "need" anything. People should drive what they want to drive and can afford to drive. That said, I do think SUVs should be driven with an understanding of how they impact (no pun intended) other drivers and pedestrians. We could work together to make things work for everyone. But in 21st century America, working together for pretty much anything seems not only impossible, it seems by many to be regarded as an assault, a crime against others' "freedom." So, there you are. I am left to simply protect myself out on the roads as best I can. And, while I'm pretty chill about it, others may not be.
Well guess its beter then seeing some cars jacked up 20 feet off the ground with big 22 inch rims.. or those rims that stick out mile wide and slice other people cars when they get too close.
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