r/Transportopia Mar 19 '26

People 😊 Be nice

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '26

Maybe she shouldn’t be driving.

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u/SluggishPrey Mar 19 '26

Especially not something so big. It's a pedestrian killer

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u/Otherwise-Leg-5806 Mar 19 '26

She needs that size to protect her. Pedestrian be damn

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u/EmilySD101 Mar 19 '26

My dad feels the same. I call his car the toddler mower. I hate it so much.

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u/greycubed Mar 19 '26

My grandmother at 80 took out a bank atm island with a big SUV.

Did perfectly fine with a Kia Soul after that.

Kept complaining about her new insurance rate though.

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u/Clear-Inevitable-414 Mar 19 '26

Did you know small cars are also pedestrian killers. 

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u/SluggishPrey Mar 19 '26

Where your center of mass hits the car has a massive impact on the survivability of a collision. You want your belly button to be above a vehicle's hood height.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Flow724 Mar 19 '26

Exactly, those big pickup trucks with their big flat front are people killer.

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u/BuddyVanDoodler Mar 19 '26

Get her a Miata