Yes, people foolishly gravitate toward trucks and SUVs, fattening the wallets of the car manufacturers and fueling the insanely stupid 7 year auto loan industry [1]. Of course, this is also disastrous for mitigating carbon emissions [2]. Additionally, they are a menace on the roadway through increasing pedestrian accidents and death [3] and likely increasing cyclist deaths [4]. They should be much more heavily regulated, for commercial use only, and require special licensing requiring regular accident avoidance training/testing.
1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-20/america-s...
2. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/...
3. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/05/09/study-links-rise-of-s...
4. https://nypost.com/2019/10/24/transportation-chief-says-suv-...