The Problem with SUVs: Uytae Lee's Stories About Here

[@JRTTSRoadCycling]

Finally, someone says it: We need to consider the safety of those OUTSIDE the car, not just inside the car.

[@chbr5623]

Let's focus on people getting hit with cars at 60 kph rather than prevent any such contact in the first place.

[@hithere5553]

@@chbr5623you’re both right. Which means less heavy, slow to stop, poor visibility SUV’s. And better pedestrian infrastructure, and more traffic calming… all pretty much antithetical to the average suv driver.

[@thndr_5468]

SUV drivers aren't capable of seeing beyond their hoods. The idea of the freedom to do what you want is not a good reason when so many are dying as a result of lax regulations

[@elliotjordan2326]

​@@chbr5623that would mean increased testing for people that already have licenses. It would also mean more strict traffic laws, more traffic cops and possible more video capture machines to catch speeders and dangerous driving. Then people will complain that we've become a babysitting police state.

[@chbr5623]

@@elliotjordan2326 Those are your ideas.

[@crowfoot1199]

Uytae Lee hitting it out of the park again, and again. Love his work! More, please!

[@AliensKillDevils.]

Need to respect the existance of ghosts and spiritual realm. Read akashic records to solve problems one by one. Clean up one by one.

[@hassan_codes]

Literally 😂

[@chbr5623]

This time he hit himself in the head repeatedly with his nonsense.

[@gradientO]

SUV = Sports Uytae Lee T Vehicle

[@jellybeansi]

This guy needs way more exposure. These topics are so important to learn about.

[@noleftturnunstoned]

What do you think this is?? He has been on KZbin for a while and is now partnering with CBC

[@noleftturnunstoned]

@@jellybeansi ok

[@amorphousblob]

@@noleftturnunstoned Nobody I know recognizes his name. They watch CBC all the time but they've never seen him on television, and the "About Here" series as a whole is tucked away in a KZbin link. Anyways, even if he does have that exposure with CBC, 101k views is arguably quite small for something of this importance.

[@kubiekemeester]

I have a feeling Not Just Bikes also did a very good video on this topic.

[@adeenooo5799]

100%, it's excellent, and very informative as to the history of these vehicles and why they were made popular.

[@StevenLeung101]

Not Just Bikes did a wonderful job covering the topic. Vehicles ballooning in size over the past 2 decades is crazy.

[@C_M_R]

Are you implying that when NJB releases a video, a similar video appears on this channel soon after?

[@crowmob-yo6ry]

NJB sucks. He's a bitter, angry, hateful, cynical doomer with an equally obnoxious fanbase.

[@Skip6235]

The thing left out of this video (which I agree with everything he said) is why SUVs became so popular: auto-companies pushed them on people and paid billions in advertising them because the safety and emissions regulations on them are less strict than on regular cars, so the companies make more profit selling them. The US recently tried to tighten the standards on SUVs and the auto-companies lobbied hard and shut it down. The safety regulations talked about in this video should 100% be pursued, but just know that it is a major up-hill battle

[@vids595]

What safety regulation(s) is less strict for SUV's? I'm not finding any.

[@tyskigolf]

@@vids595 the regulations are mentioned in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oH-anoaOgteoe9E The light truck segment was exempt from fuel economy standards in the US (CAFE). They were exempt but have since been added. The damage was done though and automakers can make more profits selling SUVs. From Wikipedia "CAFE has separate standards for "passenger cars" and "light trucks" even if the majority of "light trucks" are being used as passenger vehicles. The market share of "light trucks" grew steadily from 9.7% in 1979 to 47% in 2001, remained in 50% numbers up to 2011.[7] More than 500,000 vehicles in the 1999 model year exceeded the 8,500 lb (3,900 kg) GVWR cutoff and were thus omitted from CAFE calculations.[10] More recently, coverage of medium duty trucks has been added to the CAFE regulations starting in 2012, and heavy duty commercial trucks starting in 2014." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy

[@michaelkalus7802]

@@vids595 Look up "light truck" regulations. When these laws were written "light trucks" were basically work vehicles. So not a whole lot of them were around. But then the SUV came along, was classified as "light truck" and that was that. Personally I would like to see them just remove the light truck category completely. A vehicle shouldn't be unsafer for people outside of it just because the car maker cheesed it into a different category. The risk to people outside the vehicle should be the same, regardless if it is a VW Golf or an F350 Crew Cab.

[@christ2664]

what are you talking about? you literally made this up lol.

[@michaelkalus7802]

@@christ2664 Um, no? "The United States government uses light truck as a vehicle class in regulating fuel economy through the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard. The class includes vans, minivans, sport utility vehicles, and pickups. Light trucks have lower fuel economy standards than cars, under the premise that these vehicles are used for utilitarian purposes rather than personal transportation."

[@macaron3141592653]

This guy! He's becoming a legend We need to bring back wagons and hatchbacks. Car manufacturers assume more people won't want them, but if you sell and market them appropriately, people will buy.

[@driftinsti]

Wagons please... More of those xD

[@davidhollenshead4892]

Exactly@@driftinsti

[@THEANIMALGUY]

The lizard means begs to differ on that

[@victoryh67]

Can we have them in higher ground clearance please, I wanted to go camping with them

[@THEANIMALGUY]

@@victoryh67so like the Volvo v90 cross country?

[@goozbaghali]

Hope Uytae makes more CBC gem videos. The last season was fantastic.

[@AliensKillDevils.]

Need to respect the existance of ghosts and spiritual realm. Read akashic records to solve problems one by one. Clean up one by one.

[@Zach.3246]

@@AliensKillDevils. Take your meds bro

[@flare2000x]

Utaye Lee makes the best content CBC has to offer

[@davidyang9902]

Another idea is to tax vehicles by their weight, hear me out: heavier heavier vehicles are less efficient, more damaging to roads, more fatal to other road users and take up more parking space

[@tomasbeblar5639]

Can here to say this. Tax the weight but do it at the manufacturing level so consumers don't get this panties in a bunch.

[@senekerc]

An electric vehicle is always going to weigh more than its internal combustion engine counterpart largely because the batteries contribute a significant aspect of the vehicles curb weight and yet they are far more efficient than their counterparts, so I don't think this argument holds much weight (pun intended).

[@Codec264]

​@@senekerc they aren't assuered to be more efficient, you would need to calculate the fuel equivalent of the electricity used to charge to calculate that, which can be very variable based on local solar power, nuclear etc. And ofc u are hauling more weight around so that reduces miles per energy as compared to fueled vehicles

[@learneternal-english3417]

they are taxed more.....they use more gas so pay more gas tax, cost more so pay more sales tax, you also had to get more income to afford so you paid more income tax

[@urbanizeddreams]

Yeah, they do that in Japan

[@NLLHW]

Reasonable people: We should consider that larger cars are killing more people SUV/truck drivers: BUT MUH FREEDOM

[@jameshoiby]

Where did you hear him say larger cars are killing more people? No where in this video did I hear him say larger cars are killing more people. Did you miss the part about ~40-50% fewer passenger deaths in SUVs? Do we want to cut 30,000 passenger deaths by 40% (in the US), or 6,000 pedistrian deaths by 5.6%?

[@vids595]

SUV/truck drivers: I'm not putting my life at risk by driving a smaller car, based on the way I see other people drive.

[@ianhomerpura8937]

@@jameshoiby lower passenger deaths, but in return with way more pedestrian deaths, including their own children

[@jameshoiby]

@@ianhomerpura8937 That's not what I understood from my research but that doesn't mean I am right. :) Regardless, I hate these large trucks as well, but I've always done so for environmental reasons. I have several neighbors who are, for example, accountants, who drive giant F350 diesels to work from our location in the city. Why is this necessary!

[@megacap55]

​​@@jameshoiby but where is the stats of the people that never get back the health they had before an accident? if two SUVs a suburban crash against an expedition, one of them at 100km/h the other was just at 30km/h which one would suffer the most damage? or rollover? by more airbags that have the G forces and accelerations inside the cabin are more important, and now is the fashion of put to the cars in general glass roof or sunroof or moonroof so worse it's the result in case of an severe accident, plus the higher ground clearance makes the SUVs easier to lose the gravity center and get an easy rollover

[@dragnflye3797]

As companies like Ford are abandoning their sedan lines, is it a matter of preference for SUVs or lack of availability of smaller cars because manufacturers focus on the models with the higher profit margin.

[@sirskelletor]

You have the causation completely reversed. Ford is abandoning sedans because no one is buying them. SUVs and Sedans could have the exact same profit margins, obviously SUVs will be more expensive because they require more materials to build, and are heavier and larger and therefore more expensive to transport, but the bigger influence is economy of scale. The product you produce more of will be cheaper to produce per unit. They produce more SUVs because thats what sells more. If people only bought one model of ford, it would be insanely efficient at all levels from R&D to manufacturing, and therefore have a higher profit margin.

[@drivecalgary6095]

get sports cars or sports sedans.

[@Rudenbehr]

@@sirskelletor They’re not buying them because Ford’s sedans are terrible. Same for Chevy. Dodge has great sales actually. But most just opt for Japanese/Korean

[@alextran8188]

​@とひこ They aren't horrible. It's just called market shift. Even for toyota the sales of sedans have declined over time. If I can buy a SUV that gets the same mileage as a sedan but can carry 2x as much, why would I buy the sedan.. it just makes sense for most people.

[@Rudenbehr]

@@alextran8188 I agree fully that SUVs just make more practical sense than sedans. Sedans still make up like ~50% of the market though so people are still buying them. It's not as doom and gloom as two bad American sedan manufacturers make it out to be lol. Especially German car makers, they often have full lines of sedans and multiple different coupe models.

[@mierezsaturday1452]

One of Canada's pride. Uytae Lee.

[@guessundheit6494]

Drivers know pedestrians are there. They don't care and expect people to jump out of the way. Legalize carrying a screwdriver or a hammer and legalize damaging any vehicle that gets near, and drivers will slow down and drive safer. 4:30 - He ignores and avoids mentioning how having a bigger vehicle makes drivers more aggressive, more willing to drive recklessly and endanger others because the SUV driver will survive, the other person won't. 5:50 - "Altering" suvs doesn't fix the problem of drivers. The only way to make those crapcans "safe" without banning them is a hard 20kmh speed limit imposed by a governor in the engine. Banning IS the better idea.

[@ljacobs357]

Great content. The problem as a pedestrian and small car owner is I can't see around SUV's.

[@rasmusb43]

😅 it's like an arms race, I went CUV because I can't see 🙄🤨 of course in Alberta you still can't see around 4x4s. Little cars need a periscope in addition to blindspot detection 😅

[@chbr5623]

Can you see around a bus or a cement truck, semi, delivery vans? Those tend to be on the road a lot too...

[@rasmusb43]

@@chbr5623 I live in a small town, 70% of daily traffic are big 4x4s. Semi trucks are mainly seen in highway (so no T intersection turns) and I maybe see cement trucks once a year 🤔 again mainly on highway or main ring roads 😅 so I'm mostly cursing about in town traffic and only seeing the hood of the trucks in the way of seeing oncoming traffic.

[@irfan9164]

are you mentally challenged, busses, construction trucks, semi trucks are all necessities. the only people who should be driving pickup trucks are the handful of construction workers who need them, not people who are overcompensating.. @@chbr5623

[@nueonetwo]

Uytae is the best thing coming out of CBC. Give this guy a bigger budget.

[@papa_chu]

More importantly freedom on choosing topics.

[@ElTamauro]

all very true, not to mention how dangerous it is when the driver of a tall SUV or pickup truck is a person of short stature as a result it is impossible for them to see a child crossing the road in front of their vehicle.

[@awareofvacuity4238]

Londoner here: there are a stupid amount of SUVs on our roads. It's as ridiculous as the nonsensical faux- utilitarian reasons that people use to justify buying one. I can't stand people who buy them

[@uninvincibleete]

love Uytae Lee! his stuff is great

[@IcyMidnight]

You forgot one major reason for the increase in SUVs. They operate in a less regulated vehicle class and are massively more profitable so auto makers have been pushing them. A vehicle that is more dangerous for everyone not in them is not "safer" like you repeat, they are more dangerous for approximately 100% of people on the road.

[@finalkross]

Glad this video is now widely available for others to watch. I'm guessing the success of @notjustbikes recent video on SUVs helped.

[@nicklang7670]

I watch NotJustBikes too, it definitely gave me some things to help form an opinion about transportation.

[@crowmob-yo6ry]

NJB sucks. He's a bitter, angry, hateful, cynical doomer with an equally obnoxious fanbase.

[@djkenny1202]

I just love the SUV driver with tinted windows, where I can make absolutely zero eye contact as a pedestrian or cyclist.

[@mariusfacktor3597]

Ban SUVs and pickup trucks unless for very specific industrial purposes.

[@Amaling]

It's pure selfishness, let alone the worse fuel efficiency. I heavily agree upon regulations for banning them, already bad enough that they're avoiding fuel regulation laws for "cars" by technically not being "cars"

[@megacap55]

then the government instead of steal the money to the taxpayers should first make streets that don't flood at winter with the first rain, nationwide , the most funny of your comment is that Canada makes many American vehicles on sale in Canada and the United States but can't even make the model for the local market non CAFE compliant

[@drinkingrobot2252]

love the suburban stereotype of the smallest wife driving the biggest SUV

[@ianhomerpura8937]

aka the suburban soccer mom

[@nikm4253]

The smallest man also drives the biggest truck

[@Kevin_geekgineering]

Ban them and stop this madness. Canadian cities are becoming a hell place for anyone outside a car. this include all your children

[@castironbandito]

There's also another factor with SUVs and crashes. The likelihood of being in a head-on collision is only 6 percent. So yeah, there's not much incentive to buy an SUV based on that small number. Another way to be safe on the road is to just drive safely and be calm behind the wheel. The more aggressive you'll be, the more likely you are to crash. It's always best to keep your cool when driving.

[@panographiximageservices3147]

I had an SUV and traded it in after 3 years for a smaller sports wagon. Living in Vancouver, parking stalls are designed for sub compact cars. Not only is it hard to find , get in and out of many parking spaces but I had 8 or 9 door dings withing 6 mo of ownership. The added space is nice, but rarely needed. Don’t think I will ever go back to an SUV.

[@shingshongshamalama]

As a non-american, seeing cars literally six feet tall and that badly designed is just horrifying.

[@sadmanh0]

in car design there's all sorts of limitations and rules that are designed around pedestrian safety. One of them is that the front bonnet has to be a minimum height, as the slow hoods of the 70s and 80s were also fatal to pedestrians. I don't see why in the same way we can't have a maximum height for the bonnet.

[@TheNiteinjail]

The unquenchable thirst for public space and resources solely set aside for drivers just keeps growing... ENOUGH!

[@Mica-kb3pj]

3:21 "The bigger the vehicle, the less likely the risk of death for its passengers." Precisely why the safest vehicle to be in on the road is...a public bus.

[@marneeklintworth9300]

Informative video! As a certified Traffic Control Person since 2008 this info is helpful for our industry in keeping ourselves safe and has changed the regulations that WCB has said we need to follow. 'Flaggers' get killed every year, usually by drivers who were distracted and inattentive to the road conditions. Reassuring when you consider the only thing between the driver/vehicle and a flagger is a piece of flattened painted metal saying SLOW/STOP - what a horrifying and sobering thought that all of us keep in the back of our minds as a 'reality'....

[@seethruhead7119]

Force crash compatibility with the smallest possible vehicles. Any vehicle that completely destroys a Smart Car/Fiat 500(etc) in a crash should be deemed unfit for use on public roads.

[@Soprie]

(We should still ban them, tho)

[@stopdropandroll]

feel free to move to europe

[@shavake]

Uytae is a joy to watch

[@djdonbentley2141]

Here in North America , many pedestrians that are hit knowingly do things to contribute to their injuries or death. Like walking too far outside the white line marker , or riding bike too far to the left of the marker . many simply assume traffic will swerve dangerously to opposite oncoming traffic lanes to avoid hitting them . Really stupid things that people should know better , but they don't , and the sad part is most towns keep making driving lanes more narrow , attempting to split more area of the road to share with pedestrians , Then they have everyone drive on it over 40 to 50 miles an hour. Does this make sense. No.

[@anguslaurenson7473]

Uytae’s stories are great. But what about the reason why SUVs became ubiquitous? Auto makers fashioned a loophole in safety and emissions standards for “light trucks” and then pivoted to marketing them for retail consumers.

[@lc9245]

Jeremy Clarkson talked about the SUV ridiculousness in 2000. He didn't take into account the inherent danger of SUVs to pedestrians nor the danger it posed to other cars, but he did describe how stupid they are. The safety it provided came at tremendous cost such as terrible fuel economy, extreme weight that increase rollover risks and the flawed factor of safety in which increase safety in one area actually decrease overall safety.

[@lilsabin]

Great work , All the Love from Quebec :)

[@Brick-Life]

In australia there have been new imports of US pick up trucks like RAM etc and they are massive compared to any other local pick up trucks from Toyota or the ones Ford have sold for years!

[@AB-pl1ko]

- it's primarily an ego (and narcissism) driven 'arms race', at least in the US where I am. Mine is bigger than yours so I'm 'better'... Where I work about half the parking area is filled with full-size pickups and SUV's. Most are driven there by a single person, mainly men.. If you look at a full-size US 'Big 3' truck (Ford, GM, Dodge) from 20 years ago versus now, the new ones appear they are all 'roided up' (on steriods).. A lot heavier + overly 'macho-ified' styling as well. Outside the US, a close friend has been looking into replacing his mid 1980's era Land Rover 109 (3.5 V8) that he has had a long time and is used solely as a work vehicle, mainly towing medium & large 2-axle cargo trailers. He needs 4wd and has looked at and driven several 4wd US pickups and even the smaller (in comparison) Jeep Gladiator tows no more than what he can now but is larger and heavier in comparison. The physical size makes even it ponderous where he lives (a heavily forested and mountainous area) + it uses a lot more fuel. Normal US pickups like the Ford F-series and Ram, which he looked into, are even larger and heavier, so they have been ruled out. He recently visited the US and we rented a new F-150 and did a road trip in it. He liked driving it but said it was simply 'far too large' to own/use normally where he lives. Now he is leaning towards keeping his LR and 'investing' in fixing the corrosion it has and if eventually needed, buying a Toyota to replace the LR. Where he lives, US trucks are so heavy (even the lighter duty 1/2 ton versions), that when you combine the weight of the truck & a trailer being towed, it requires the driver have a commercial drivers license. Not practical as that also restricts when and where you can use the 'truck' such as not before/after certain times of day, on Sundays or within some towns/cities.

[@ianhomerpura8937]

Same here in the Philippines. There are a lot of new Ford Raptor and Rangers as well as Chevy Silverados. All of them are way too large to fit in existing roads.

[@MsZsc]

@@AB-pl1ko the huge "pickups" US car manufacturers like to sell literally have LESS BED SPACE than smaller pick-ups from decades ago.

[@AB-pl1ko]

@@MsZsc - Exactly. it's bascially an 'arms race'.. I used to own (last ten years) a 1977 GMC Sierra 2500 (3/4 ton chassis) longbed 2wd, considered a 'full size' pickup. Good truck btw.. If I compare it dimensionally to current model, my old truck looks more like a compact now. Utterly pointless if you ask me as that old truck did everything I needed it for and would fit inside a normal garage, unlike many current ones...

[@alextran8188]

​@@MsZsc that is not true. If anything bed space has increased as the width of these newer trucks have incresed.. you can still buy a truck with an 8 ft bed..

[@Sivah_Akash]

Unfortunately improving safety doesn't make them any less polluting or reduce traffic. :(

[@michaelvickers4437]

I think you neglected at least 3 major points: 1) the reason for the dramatic growth in the light trucks market segment has been because vehicle manufacturers, recognizing the high profitability of SUVs etc, have made it almost impossible to buy sedans 2) the reason that light trucks are so profitable is because the US gov't excepted them from fuel economy and safety standards that other passenger vehicles were required to meet 3) because of their poor fuel economy, the growth in the number of SUVs is directly related to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions in the vehicle segment of GHGs. The SUV is a peculiarly American approach to the safety of self vs the safety of others. It's rather like they proliferation of guns, where the greater number of guns begets yet more guns, as people who are fearful of those people who already have guns seek to protect themselves by joining, and thereby escalating, the arms race. Nobody outside of the NRA thinks that's a good idea, so why do we think it's a good idea not to try to put water on the growing fire of SUVs?

[@Finisl]

Great content, great editing, great design! Thank you!

[@jbrook4526]

They are also very big, require more space to store, more energy to run, and have worse visibility than a sedan. I would like to live a town with less SUVs and trucks!

[@gheorghibaractari7489]

How about educating the pedestrians who don't give a damn about their surroundings, same goes for the drivers. Stop blaming the vehicles. I see his point, but generally it's the human factor. Distracted driving, distracted walking. Why aren't we looking at the correlation between the use of smartphones/headphones and the increase in pedestrian accidents. Awareness is what will fix this.

[@Danpungip]

ive almost gotten hit by four cars by drivers who didnt pay attention when turning right

[@katherinespencer2073]

My Mercedes sedan beats out any suv in looks or comfort or safety.....for me and others sharing the roads. and at 40yrs old, this trouble -less beauty has meant that even w. low income, I own properties frm my years of saving. At this point, I feel that the car may outlast me! No one has ever said "this car is too old to put a new windshield in or buy 4 new winters"....unlike a relative of mine w. a big SUV of only half the age of mine. That was a shock event. Just cus the paint was still nice 😂

[@drivecalgary6095]

You can't see anything when an SUV is in front of you. If there is an SUV to your left, you can't see pedestrians to your left. vice versa. That's when pedestrians get hit (by the car not the SUV) crossing the streets. SUV have high centre of gravity- they can't corner and prone to roll overs and they are usually the first ones in the ditch during snow storms.

[@WhysafraidofCause]

i support anythign SUV hate; we need more of it

[@slendii366]

SUV’s need to be more regulated by law. They’re far too abundant in society, wasteful, and unsafe. In fact, this should apply to all light trucks.

[@Madaboutmada]

Speaking from the US, there is no reason why Detroit auto manufacturers would change their current obsession for SUVs and trucks. It costs more for them to build passenger cars due to safety regulations. If SUVs and trucks actually had to meet passenger car criteria, Detroit would be pushing a different plan. Another very alarming feature when talking about weight is how much heavier electric SUVs and trucks. As more of those are sold, you can bet pedestrian and cyclist fatalities and serious injuries will skyrocket.

[@trekkienzl2862]

🇨🇦 Canada should make it illegal to own or even ride in an SUV or Pickup truck. Back when I was in the 🇳🇱 Netherlands, a lot of the cars there are small hatchbacks or small sedans. Dutch roads are well designed for small cars and bikes. SUVs and Pickup trucks are a uniquely 🇺🇸 American thing. There is nothing an SUV or Pickup can do that a bicycle 🚲 or hatchback can't also do so it makes no sense to own one.

[@RestoreSanityFear]

Ban them

[@kazuya99ace]

I want a single seater car with the option for a passenger attachment and a trailer attachment. It would be like a transformer, getting wider or longer only when needed. Would save so much on gas and could move through traffic and park easier. How many years away are we?

[@pbilk]

YES! Calling out large vehicles and the lack of regulations!

[@garypmagwood]

One thing that does not make it into the stats: the bigger and heavier vehicles, especially with AWD/FWD take much longer to stop in the dry and will wind up much further off the road when the loss of control is in slippery conditions...

[@leopoldleoleo]

Another banger from Uytae

[@RGKO-c8y]

A huge problem I have is the average car has become a blind spot, placed everywhere. So now you have to buy an SUV to compete for good view.

[@dmcepeda]

People want SUVs to feel safe because we are bad drivers. SUVs and trucks are exempt from gas guzzler tax and use more gasoline compared to cars. Heavier vehicles like SUVs trucks and EVs wear down and destroy our roads quicker.

[@magnesium_subsoil_94]

It’s so sad, drivers are so aggressive these days it’s almost like you need an SUV to protect yourself

[@danirezaeva3934]

Uytae Lee saved CBC

[@RD9_Designs]

Great job with this piece!

[@hithummah]

the solution is simple, and it's already implemented in many countries. Bigger vehicles should require a big vehicle license.

[@tonglu3699]

No need to ban them. Just tax the hell out of them. God knows we need the money to fix the road they destroyed.

[@MrDeapGamingMedia]

My suggestion. Ban people who got their SUV being stolen to own a SUV. It would fix various problem.

[@michaelweinman9051]

Spot on!!

[@anguslaurenson7473]

Another big factor is iPhone came out similar time. With North America driving automatics they have a free hand to watch phone

[@Michael-tn9wp]

Suvs are ridiculously big and many drivers don’t know how to handle them. Can we get rid of them, please???

[@Barberousse87]

There is no mention of the owner's debt or the expenses associated with maintaining the roads for these types of vehicles. Additionally, it's important to consider the pollution and environmental impact of these vehicles, particularly in the context of climate change. It appears as though the CBC may have received some funding from large truck companies, as they seem to be promoting the sale of F-150s without addressing these concerns.

[@chbr5623]

It's buses and heavy trucks that damage the roads not vehicles under 10,000 lbs...

[@evanjennings4823]

SOLD in first second. SUV my next vehicle

[@johnpotts264]

If the government really wants to improve the safety for pedestrians, cities need to be completely redesigned for pedestrians and bicyclists so that vehicles are not even driven in the center and around shopping areas. The structure of cities is completely incompatible with the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists. The idea that they should be traveling in the same area is ridiculous. There should be large thruways that commuters take to get into the city/shopping area and then public transportation/walking paths/bridges that provides access to center city. The other major improvement is increasing the effectiveness and testing to acquire drivers' licenses. Most North American states/provinces give out drivers' licenses like they come in crackerjack boxes. Passing tests should be difficult and you should be retested regularly. You need to improve the skill and safety of the drivers or take them off the road.

[@meshkovsergey]

Very well made and presented! Great job Uytae 👏

[@Kryxtal]

Always love the music in Uytae's videos

[@roker2121]

Great video, thank you Uytae & CBC

[@paulgoudfrooij6561]

The problem is that SUV people don’t care about pedestrians if the pedestrian isn’t a family member.

[@victoryh67]

I wanted to go camping with my car, I would love to buy a station wagon, but they have such little ground clearance that I can’t take them anywhere even if it’s just unpaved roads I will be scared if it damages the bottom of the car, so I can only go for a suv😢

[@johnl9337]

I live in a U.S. city that tends to flood easily whenever it rains hard, so most people drive suv of trucks so that they have enough ground clearance to drive through some minor flooding. By the way, in my city there are no pedestrians unless you are in downtown. My wife used to drive sedans, but after a few times getting stuck because of rain and almost getting her car flooded she now drives and suv.

[@MsZsc]

in the majority of cities people are driving SUVs being the only person in the huge vehicle with no perceivable benefit to anybody except profiting car manufacturers. People are buying these things when they do not need them for the "off road" capabilities at all

[@johnl9337]

@@MsZsc i do generally agree with you, but i wouldn't call my wife's SUV big. It is a Mazda CX-5 which is about the same size or maybe smaller than a Toyota RAV4

[@MsZsc]

your town and rural use cases are the exception, not the rule. This also applies to depending on cars for infrastructure instead of trains and public transit as a whole. 80% of car sales now being these things is insane.

[@littledovecitydust]

Maybe your town should levy a tax on SUVs and fix its crumbling infrastructure.

[@Ernest0220]

If a "city" has no pedestrians except its downtown, I won't call that a "city".

[@mermaidripples9302]

Great Reporting! What about driving skills? Do all the SUV drivers have the proper skills?

[@silver_bowling]

it's been found that SUV drivers tend to be worse drivers; presumably this is either due to large blind spots (which make collisions more likely, thus making them appear as worse drivers), or because bad drivers don't trust their skills and therefore tend to buy 'safer' cars (at least for the occupant).

[@bgabriel28]

I kind of think SUV's should just be banned outright, or at least have much heavier taxes on them. It's not just their danger to pedestrians and other drivers, but also higher emissions and they block sight lines for drivers in smaller vehicles.

[@DougGrinbergs]

5:58 safety features for pedestrians!

[@kursdragon]

Great video as always from Uytae (and if he has any others helping him props to them too)

[@morganboutwell8231]

Car companies don’t even sell the same sized cars to the USA. Only the supersized ones

[@Maken_Some_Bacon]

The solution is simple, just ban those pesky pedestrians. #drivebigorstayhome

[@stephenphillips6245]

EV should be more popular because they weigh more ...1000s of pounds more. Wouldn't that make them safer to get into an accident? Not for the Ice car hitting them

[@nj4jd]

Can we get Uytae Lee (& team) and Mona Chalabi to write a textbook or some lesson plans? Applied stats, research methods, critical thinking, clear/consise/clever communication... *chef's kiss*

[@chrispontani6059]

Everything old is new again. We went through this in the late 90s and early 2000s with offset collision and that gave birth to the crossover, which sits lower to the ground and uses a car chassis instead of a truck chassis. Most crossovers have sloped hoods so they’re not as “unsafe” as this report suggests. Consumers are trending towards crossovers and SUVs as they’re much easier for the older population to get in and out of.

[@bc5299]

well when a pedestrian dies instead of being seriously injured it sure reduces the lawsuits that the ex-pedestrians would bring.

[@jayfreechavez0000]

The intro 😂

[@CarmenCastrucci]

Also contributing to fatalities: collision by an SUV will cause a pedestrian to be knocked back onto their head whereas a pedestrian will be knocked forward onto the hood of a car. I'd rather my legs be smashed than my skull be cracked open.

[@disableddave1707]

I was hit by a lady in a Toyota car, who ran a stop sign, as I was riding my motorbike and lost my leg. I was in hospital for 2 months and have had many surgeries. I lost my job. My wife left me, partially because she couldn't take the strain of working all day to pay the rent and then help take care of me in the evening, but also to be with a "complete" man. There have been innumerable times in the last 18 years that I wished I had been hit by an SUV or a lorry rather than scraping through, as what I am doing know is living in name only.

[@chbr5623]

@@disableddave1707 My heart is with you on this...

[@evanjacobson4595]

Bro calls ground clearance a design flaw 😭

[@umani9983]

In Canada, trucks and SUVs are certainly needed in winter for its hight clearence in the snow. A Sudan thats only a foot off the ground is going to get stuck every winter.

[@sdfjsd]

What about mini vans? Are those more fatal than a regular car as well? If so, how much more fatal?

[@rafiy7150]

most mini vans have small hood, even some have their engines under the drivers seat which makes the drivers to be more precautios

[@doomsdayman107]

Additional safety measures won't make SUVs any better for the environment; we could ban them for that reason alone

[@vids595]

We could ban airplanes for vacation purposes as well. People have to get around town but vacations are not necessary at all. Also trains are inherently more efficient than semitrucks, we could ban semitrucks and instead use railroads and smaller delivery vans. Also all plastic items that are not required for medical reason could be banned.

[@doomsdayman107]

@@vids595 fewer than 20% of the people on this planet have ever been on a plane, because over 80% can't afford to fly, and they'll bear the brunt of climate disasters caused in part by all the flying. So there is a certain logic to banning these things as well, yes.

[@sdfjsd]

They should make SUVs illegal. This is not okay. Safety is more important than anything else. People's lives are more important than anything else.

[@OccidentalSoothsayer]

put speed governors on all cars, link it to a GPS. this can be done today and will save lives people are speeding everywhere and speed kills.

[@Scotford_Maconochie]

I have an SUV now but I want a sedan when the SUV retires

[@medokn99]

2:22 lmao

[@NJ-ju8fr]

I didn't love suv's until seeing cbc's opinion.

[@muzammilriyaz]

Very good video and informative

[@StevenLeung101]

Great to see more videos coming out now discussing the issue of the unnecessarily large and impractical vehicles we now have in North America.

[@13strong]

There should be a ban on vehicles over a certain size unless they're required for work reasons. People clearly can't exercise reason and consider our collective safety.