Is it really the vehicle we drive that changes our safety on the roads? Hal R. Varian on page 238-241 seems to think that this is right. In the writing he seems to believe that driving an SUV or a truck make the roads more unsafe for those in cars. Upon reading this, it obviously is written by somebody who drives cars and has never owned or driven a big vehicle. I see that there is no problem with the vehicles in which we drive rather the way in which we drive them. Would somebody be any less hurt in a head on collision with another car at fifty-five miles per hour, as it would an SUV? I believe that it does not matter the vehicle driven if the person driving it is not a good driver. He tries to say on page 240 that a mother with kids is more likely to choose an SUV because it would be more safe to drive and keep her family safe. It is her right as an American to protect her family in any way she see fit. If that means buying a bigger vehicle to prevent deaths in an emergency collision then it is her constitutional right. Toward the end of the writing, he suggests that people with bigger vehicles be required to pay more because they cause more damage. This is entirely the wrong way to look at this and I find it very childish. Punishing me for driving a full-size truck when everyone else has the same right to own one as I do is wrong. I am not saying a go out looking for accidents in my truck just because I am more secured in my truck. He is entirely taking away all of the good aspects of bigger vehicles and putting it into his own words to show that trucks are bad. Can't car speeds go faster and risk wrecking that way? What happens when these cars get stuck in the snow? Bigger vehicles, trucks and SUV'S come and pull them out. Punishing people who drive bigger vehicles for the sole reason that bigger vehicles cause more damage in a wreck than a car is unintelligent. A vehicle is only as safe as the person driving it. That is food for thought.
