# Silly Useless Vehicles **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 18, 2001, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-useless-vehicles/55025 "2001-02-18T23:31:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-useless-vehicles/55025/261 "2001-03-17T18:47:45Z")
**Feynn** : Your nephew is indeed fortunate to have been driving an SUV. Unfortunately, **father** :wally does not agree that the safety of SUV drivers is a good thing. He will probably point out that the life of the suicide (?) may have been saved if your nephew had been driving a Geo Metro. One of his gripes is that SUVs are dangerous to people who drive smaller vehicles. [This MPSIMS thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=59913) discusses a Jeep Grand Cherokee that rolled over five times. There is a link on that page to MSNBC that [shows the rollover](http://www.msnbc.com/local/knsd/680979.asp) as it happened. To head off **father** :wally 's claim that, “See! SUVs roll over!”, I will point out that _any_ passenger vehicle that departed the road in the same way would have rolled over. Here’s the important bit: > [@](#): > > _Excerpt from MSNBC page_ > All the occupants of an SUV got out without a scratch. So two of **father** :wally 's “points” are disproved: First, that SUVs are unsafe (as you pointed out in your poignant post); and second, that buying an SUV for the safety of its occupants is a “fantastic scenario” (ibid.). Thus far in this thread, people have pointed out that SUVs are used for driving offroad, carrying people, carrying equipment, carrying building materials, everyday commuting, and providing a safe environment in case of a severe accident. He has yet to provide a single example of a “fantastic scenario”. ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-useless-vehicles/55025/262 "2001-03-17T19:01:11Z")
Here you go… [Crash](http://Feynn.tripod.com/crash.html) ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-useless-vehicles/55025/263 "2001-03-17T19:13:22Z")
Just a little more info I forgot… the Contour was moving at approx 60 mph as the woman who made the life saving phone call had been following her for a number of miles at a similar speed. The woman in the Contour actually was practicing swerving into the oncoming lane before she encountered my nephew and the lady with the cell was afraid to pass the car ahead due to the driver’s erratic behaviour. Another word of thanks goes to the guys driving the Safeway trucks, you can see them in the picture if you look. The Jeep caught fire after it came to rest and they were able to put the fire out with the extinguishers they were carrying. While at the hospital the nurses in intensive care didn’t believe that my nephew was the driver as they had rarely seen any driver survive an impact this severe with so few injuries. He lost some teeth but other than that he had no upper body injuries… not a scratch. His friends were discharged from the hospital a few days after the accident. My nephew was writing notes to people the next day as the respirator (a cautionary procedure) prevented him from speaking. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-useless-vehicles/55025/264 "2001-03-17T20:37:46Z")
And the Waste Of Sperm STILL can’t answer the questions. I’ll ask them again… 1. What percentage of Lexus SUV’s are taken off-road? 2. What percentage of SUV’s are Lexus’s? 3. What relevance does off-roading have to the overall value of an SUV? 4. Are you here just to cause trouble? 5. What “fantastic scenarios” are you referring to when you say that “SUV owners make up fantastic scenarios to defend their SUV ownership”? And here’s a new one… 1. Can you count your age on one hand, or just your IQ? ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-useless-vehicles/55025/265 "2001-03-17T21:17:22Z")
7: How old are you 8: Do you own a car? 9: What kind (real cars, not toys) 10:Do you live under a bridge ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-useless-vehicles/55025/266 "2001-03-17T21:18:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bdgr \* > \*\*) > 10:Do you live under a bridge > > \*\* Damn Smilies ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2001, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-useless-vehicles/55025/267 "2001-03-17T22:28:26Z")
I don’t think that this thread will EVER be useful. I’m shutting it down. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silly-useless-vehicles/55025.md?page=13)