Ah, but we're all safer if we totally ban SUVs from the roads. Personally I question the legality of driving a vehicle that you intentionally purchased to cause more harm to anyone you get in an accident with just so YOU'RE safer. Cars are safer in EVERY circumstance except an accident with a much larger vehicle. The safest solution would seem to be banning SUVs, not EVERYONE having them. And it's not just rolling that makes SUVs unsafe, they are harder to control which means you're more likely to get in an accident in the first place. Not that I'm in favor of actually banning them, but your argument is silly.
Edit: Which reminds me, I was talking with a friend the other day, and he proposed what I thought was a novel solution to the SUV "safety" issue. They can be excellent protection if other people hit you, but make you more dangerous if you hit other folks. My friend's solution is that if you cause an accident while driving an SUV, you get charged with something extra, since you bought a vehicle you knew would cause more damage in that kind of situation. I kind of object to that on libertarian grounds, but it's an interesting idea, and might make the bad drivers think twice before buying a "safer" vehicle.
I read the posts in your gas guzzling necro-nef thread. I also read Rainsford's posts about how people who buy bigger vehicles like SUV's should be somehow held accountable in accidents since they must have bought those vehicles just to survive, while others get crushed to death in their tiny econoboxes in an accident. The fact is that ALL econoboxes are unsafe at high speeds in accidents, no matter what they hit.
The fact is, if anyone is driving 90mhp on the highway in an econobox, they should already know what the outcome will be in a crash if they hit a concrete barrier or another vehicle head on. They will die. Just like they will die if they are riding a motorcycle at 120mph down the freeway in traffic and they get hit. Econoboxes or small cars are not made for survivability in an 90mph accident, they are made for only minimum survivability in 60 mph accidents, which is what they are tested for.
The only way to make an econobox survivable in a 90mph accident is to add so much frame steel and sheet metal thickness to the car that it would end up getting the same gas mileage as an F150 V8 as a result, and then therefore make it unattractive to econobox buyers.
The biggest single factor in a survivable econobox accident is the speed of the driver of the econobox, not the the larger vehicles it may hit. Unless you are talking about a bus or an 18 wheeler. In which case you are pretty much guaranteed death if you hit one in any vehicle going over 90mph.
If someone chooses to drive a death trap econobox vehicle that is unsuited to safe driving over 60 mph down the highway at 90mph and has a fatal accident, that is going to be the fault of the driver for going 90mph. And also you don't save much gas going 90mph, either, as the small engine is straining to keep up with the speed and weight demands on it.
A law that all states need to adopt, and some already have, would force 18 wheelers and buses into the right lanes on a highway, and only allow the left hand lanes for vehicles like cars, vans and light trucks. Not only do laws like this save countless lives in traffic accidents with 18 wheelers on the highways, they also save countless gallons of gas when the slowly accelerating and braking 18 wheelers stick to the same right lanes as traffic gets congested and allows the faster accelerating vehicles into the left lanes to speed up traffic flows.
And I have personally seen 18 wheelers literally crush econoboxes flat onto the concrete in accidents where they ran over them at 90mph or more, and the only thing identifiable left of the carnage was the tires and the rims to even tell what kind of econobox it was that was crushed completely. Of course the occupants were reduced to a few red globs and ooze all over the highway, and were mostly not even able to be recovered or identifiable as remains. All the fire department can do at that point is squeegee the few chunky bits up and hose the liquified remains off the highway. And these types of fatal vehicle crushing accidents involving 18 wheelers and econoboxes are a lot more common than you might think.
Which makes me shudder at the thought of the feds again debating allowing unsafe Mexican 18 wheelers and inadequately trained drivers from Mexico who don't speak or read English on our highways and streets. I'm sure the fatality and accident rates for 18 wheelers will double or triple or worse if they ever stupidly allow that to happen.