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Engineers, planners, politicians, and advocates all around the world are trying to improve their cities and build more great walkable places with viable alternatives to driving. But there's a looming trend that could undo all of that hard work: the growth of SUVs and light trucks.

This could all be solved if these pathetic suburbanites could just buy small cars, station wagons, or minivans instead.


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Script by Nicole Conlan and Jason Slaughter

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References and Further Reading

Tell Automakers: Fix front-end blind zones - Consumer Reports Petition
https://action.consumerreports.org/20...

CityNerd: Problems with Pickup Trucks (Nebula)
https://nebula.tv/videos/citynerd-pro...

New Car Assessment Program
https://www.federalregister.gov/docum...

SUVs, pickup trucks more likely to hit pedestrians than cars, study finds
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2...

The Ultimate List of Driving Statistics for 2023
https://driving-tests.org/driving-sta...

All history (including auto industry research of SUV buyers) is from:
High and Mighty: SUVs-the World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way
Keith Bradsher
[ISBN 9781586481230]
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Trucks And SUVs Are Now Over 80 Percent Of New Car Sales In The U.S.
https://jalopnik.com/trucks-and-suvs-...

Mindgames on wheels - How advertising sold false promises of safety and superiority with SUVs
https://static1.squarespace.com/stati...

Ford Expedition Eddie Bauer 1997 (modified)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/juanelo...

Sherman tank by Nyttend - Own work, Public Domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Carsized.com
https://carsized.com

Global SUV sales set another record in 2021, setting back efforts to reduce emissions
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statisti...

Kids and Cars
https://www.kidsandcars.org/
https://www.kidsandcars.org/how-kids-...

Experiment involving SUV reveals hidden danger for small children
https://www.kmbc.com/article/experime...

SUVs second biggest cause of emissions rise, figures reveal
https://www.theguardian.com/environme...

U.S. Pedestrian Fatalities Rise, While European Pedestrian Fatalities Fall
https://www.planetizen.com/news/2019/...

Cyclist and Pedestrian Deaths Skyrocket in 2018 as Motorists Stay Safe
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/06/1...

Why are US drivers killing so many pedestrians?
https://cityobservatory.org/why-are-u...

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/suvs...

National Survey on Distracted Driving Attitudes and Behaviors
https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov...

The Car Cushion Hypothesis: Bigger Cars Lead to More Risk Taking—Evidence from Behavioural Data
https://link.springer.com/article/10....

You Don’t Need A Full-Size Pickup Truck, You Need a Cowboy Costume
https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/y...

City drivers 'should think twice' before buying SUVs
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-566...

Pickup Trucks - From Workhorse to Joyride
https://www.axios.com/ford-pickup-tru...

Transportation Alternatives - The Problem with Bigger Cars
https://www.transalt.org/newsletter/s...

Unlicensed Driver Is Charged in Death of Baby in Stroller
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/ny...

Tyre Extinguishers
https://www.tyreextinguishers.com/

EUROPEAN VEHICLE MARKET STATISTICS
https://eupocketbook.org/wp-content/u...

European new car market starts 2021 with record market share for SUVs
https://www.jato.com/european-new-car...

Safety consequences of vehicle size & weight
   • Safety consequences of vehicle size a...  

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