{"id":73,"date":"2005-06-25T11:24:29","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T17:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2005-06-25T16:18:58","modified_gmt":"2005-06-25T22:18:58","slug":"suvs-feeling-safe-vs-being-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/25\/suvs-feeling-safe-vs-being-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"SUVs: Feeling Safe vs. Being Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of ours has been looking to buy a compact SUV.  His reasons: safety and the need to drive high-clearance roads for hiking.  Let&#8217;s look at the latter first.  Tarn and I take our Honda Accord on our hiking adventures and have yet to encounter a Washington back road we couldn&#8217;t clear.  Our friend did quote us two roads we haven&#8217;t been on that might do us in.  Fine, I&#8217;m okay with avoiding those roads.<\/p>\n<p>As for safety, it is interesting how people feel psychologically safer in a bigger vehicles than in small ones.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/2004\/2004_01_12_a_suv.html\">This <em>New Yorker<\/em> article<\/a> talks about the myth of SUV safety.  The stats in section 2 are missing some data like total number of cars sold and implies an even distribution of all vehicles and drivers across the US.  This is certainly not the case.  Anyway, the article is still very interesting, especially if you are considering the purchase of an SUV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of ours has been looking to buy a compact SUV. His reasons: safety and the need to drive high-clearance roads for hiking. Let&#8217;s look at the latter first. Tarn and I take our Honda Accord on our hiking adventures and have yet to encounter a Washington back road we couldn&#8217;t clear. Our friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}