First, we stopped buying small utes. Then we started buying 4×4 utes almost exclusively.
The utes started getting bigger. Then a new kind of ute showed up, one so big they call them trucks.
This is a big problem and I’ve cared about it for a very long time.
I’m delighted to say people are furious about it suddenly, thanks to a stellar data analysis in The Economist. The weekly magazine begins its feature with a story of a Ford Focus being rear-ended by a RAM 3500, one of the biggest trucks on the road. A six-year-old girl in the Ford Focus died, while the driver of the RAM 3500 was physically unharmed.
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