On the subject of the whole "people in large vehicles are menaces" thing, I had a weird perspective shift today - I brought my car into the shop for some bodywork (bumper needs replacing among other things) and got a rental. The rental they gave me is an absolutely gigantic SUV. It's a tank. It might fit in my garage but there'd be no room around it. I do not understand how people daily drive these things... you'd think you'd feel safer being up above everything and secure in the knowledge that in any severe accident you'd be totally fine even if everyone else involved is roadkill, but it actually makes me more nervous because I feel large and clumsy and constantly like I'm close to everything and unable to adjust. And I say this as a reasonably attentive, engaged driver because I generally enjoy the experience of driving... I cannot imagine how much worse it would be if I were distracted or just cruising along paying a moderate amount of attention like a lot of people do.
It's objectively a nice, comfortable vehicle that certainly has plenty of room for stuff and for people, but... yeah. Should there be a separate class of license you have to get to drive these things?
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