Bumper rant

I don't often rant (at least I hope I don't) on my blog, but yesterday, driving down to RI, I was stuck in traffic because of an accident on the highway going the other way. It reminded me why I dislike SUVs so much. It's not the environment issue which you might think (althought don't get me started on hybrids), but it's the safety issue. I can't believe that still to this day, someone hasn't stepped up and told the auto industry they have to address at a minimum the bumper height issue. There's more information on this at this site, not the best one probably, but the first one I found.



The accident I witnessed was a simple tailgating accident. Three cars. Except one of the cars was an SUV. The middle car was wedged underneath the SUV. It looked like noone was injured but it was just ridiculous that because people buy these unsafe vehicles, the rest of us are forced to either have a riskier time driving or break down and buy an SUV as well to be safe too. If we all drove car based vehicles it would be a lot more reasonable. If you need a truck or an SUV that is fine with me, but my guess is that 90% of the people driving Escalades and F-350s don't need that type of vehicle really. They've just been convinced by advertising they do.



Unfortunately, I don't think much will happen as America seems enamoured with these silly vehicles regardless of the consequences. But seeing an accident like that yesterday, that didn't need to be like that just got my goat. I might also have had a particular affinity to the middle car as it was a Saturn as well.



In other news, I've been getting tons of knitting done. Started a knitting group at work and have introduced a handful of people to knitting. I should be getting more knitting done this weekend and maybe wrapping up a few projects to report on next week.