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[benEzra]

but the IHHS report you cited was about the relative lack of safety of minicars compared to traditional compact and midsize cars, which would be just as true if every SUV in the U.S. vanished tomorrow. Minicars are just less safe in collisions with normal-sized vehicles than regular compact and midsize cars, which I believe was the IHHS's main point. Yes, that also makes them less safe in collisions with supersized SUV's, but those are (thankfully) a smaller and smaller part of the market.

FWIW, IHHS is anything but a schill for the auto industry.

As far as bumper height problems, that problem didn't start with SUV's, it started with pickups. It goes back to whatever genius (at DOT?) decided that pickups and vans should have higher bumpers and lights than cars--which in retrospect was idiotic.