Studies show that driving turns people into jerks — and the nicer the car, the worse the driver
Making cars bigger made them deadlier. The weight and power of SUVs and megatrucks mean they hit harder. Smaller cars hit a pedestrian in the legs, and big trucks tend to hit them in the head. But in a crash, people ridinga megatruck have a higher survival rate."There's some evidence that driving a very large vehicle makes you and your passengers safer. That's an inducement to buy one," says Justin Tyndall, an economist at the University of Hawaii who studies driver behavior.
that came out in January in the Journal of Consumer Policy, researchers put 49 undergraduates in a sophisticated driving simulator and had them"drive" a route, varying whether they were in a big SUV or a tiny hatchback. The drivers of the bigger car, they found, took more risks — driving faster, braking later, and so on."They are in a bigger car," says Bart Claus, a marketing researcher at IÉSEG School of Management in France who was one of the paper's authors.
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