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TLDR: SUVs cause traffic jams.

Actual study (full article): The rise of trucks and the fall of throughput by Yang Gao & David Levinson

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[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

They also make accidents worse and the block vision of cars.

[–] BossPaint@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I’m not surprised

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, it depends, my Sonata, a 4 door sedan, is 16'1", while my Sorento, a SUV, is 15'9"

[–] girthero@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I think the article should differentiate large SUVs vs small ones. Many smaller SUVs are shorter in length than most midsized cars.

Mostly because a lot of them are just compact cars with a lift kit.

[–] fitjazz@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, my "SUV" and my wife's sedan take up almost exactly the same footprint.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but so what? The goal is to get people onto transit not into smaller cars. And I say that as a tradesman who drives every day with my pickup truck full of tools.

If bigger vehicles make more traffic what does it matter? Line doesn't go up as fast?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

If you progressively make cars smaller and smaller, people will move to mass transit faster since it would be way more comfortable than cramming into a Hot Wheels car.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

I’d rather be behind an SUV than a Tesla on autopilot.