Sport Utility Vehicles Killers On Our Roads
Sport utility vehicles (SUVs) are prone to roll over and pose a major risk to other drivers on the road. SUVs must be redesigned and the government must regulate these vehicles. ... The Rollover Resistance Rating measures a vehicles track width to the center of gravity to determine how rollover-prone the vehicle is. ... The lowest rated vehicles (1-star) are at least four times more likely to roll over than the highest rated vehicles (5-stars). ... But other automakers are not so eager to make safety changes claming that installing side curtain air bags and re-engineering a lot of the vehicles would be to costly.