Comment by braythwayt
7 years ago
Or you do the math and realize that with a modern, safe automobile, your chance of dying in an accident with a pickup is so small that upgrading your own vehicle to a pickup is a rounding error.
To be clear, I agree that humans being humans, we do love to get into escalating arms races.
I've seen at least 3 reports in my area where a head-on collision with an impaired driver (in the truck) usually ended up killing or seriously injuring the passengers in this 'modern, safe automobile'. Some examples:
* https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/drunk-driver-who-kill...
* https://www.kxan.com/traffic/two-children-killed-in-cedar-pa...
* https://www.kxan.com/top-stories/two-from-austin-dead-after-...
* https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/married-only-minutes-texas-n...