Big cars for safety is a tragedy of the commons type affair with one caveat.
There will always be large trucks and some large cars so having a larger car is slightly safer (I assume).
But as the portion of large cars increases, small cars presumably become more unsafe and those drivers will start buying large cars. Then when nearly everyone has large cars, everyone is left back at square one or worse.
Their car doesn’t let them see over the average car anymore and neither do they give them a (somewhat selfish) size advantage in a collision.
True, the larger car probably has bigger crumple zones, but since cars are now larger and heavier it requires more crumple zone to stop one. And parking, fuel efficiency, road congestion and car prices are all worse.
There will always be large trucks and some large cars so having a larger car is slightly safer (I assume).
But as the portion of large cars increases, small cars presumably become more unsafe and those drivers will start buying large cars. Then when nearly everyone has large cars, everyone is left back at square one or worse.
Their car doesn’t let them see over the average car anymore and neither do they give them a (somewhat selfish) size advantage in a collision.
True, the larger car probably has bigger crumple zones, but since cars are now larger and heavier it requires more crumple zone to stop one. And parking, fuel efficiency, road congestion and car prices are all worse.