Hummer Drivers Get More Tickets. A Lot More.

[toxicity]

Originally Posted by joe1347

Holy cow! Don't crash into a school bus! For more reasons than just the kids now!

[slickQUICKprius]

Originally Posted by joe1347

To be fair, if this was a prius, the driver would have been decapitated. Either way a crash of this force, putting that much of the vehicle under the bus, would most certainly mean a loss of life for those in the vehicle.

I could find you pictures of motorcycles in the back of semis, corvettes under trailers, and civics wrapped around light poles. Hell, i can show you an enzo that wrapped itself around a tree. Or an STi in a lake?

Also, I doubt all hummer drivers are "compensating" for something. I've always felt the first people to bring that up are the ones lacking confidence in their own department.

I drive a prius, and I'm horribly small down there. Should I be driving a hummer? By your logic yes, but it's the motion of the ocean, not the size of the boat in the harbor, and the prius gets better gas milage. I mean geez, I should drive an 18 wheeler around if we're talking about compensating.

I just feel that talking down upon others puts you as low if not lower than them. Have some class

[qbee42]

Well, I drive a Prius to compensate for my large equipment.

Tom

[jayman]

Originally Posted by slickQUICKprius

Also, I doubt all hummer drivers are "compensating" for something.

True enough, but I've noticed - around here anyway - that most of the H2 drivers are ignorant hillbilly's who drive their H2's like complete dickheads. Of course, karma eventually catches up to them, and the H2 either gets repo'd or rolled in the median of the Trans Canada

Kinda funny how H2 drivers think they really are driving a Humvee, not just a glorified Tahoe with a lift kit. A Humvee would absolutely destroy an H2

Originally Posted by slickQUICKprius

I drive a prius, and I'm horribly small down there.

Um ..... damn. Sorry, really

[patsparks]

I'm with Slick, we need to form a group, Prius Drivers with Small Equipment.
Some ladies know the advantages, I'll not go into it here.
A person driving a car may have been able to steer around the bus. I didn't see all that mass helping much.

[slickQUICKprius]

I'll admit I'm small. It's not a big deal, not like things are gonna change, and I'll make the best of what I've got.

I guess I'm just realistic - I never have to worry about anything getting in the way of the steering wheel if you know what I mean.

[Rybold]

I would expect school buses to be very well reinforced in the rear - especially since they drive on the right side of the freeway, surrounded by semi-trucks. For that much damage to occur to the H2, that H2 must have been MOVING!!! (at the same time, a school bus probably doesn't move forward very much when someone runs into it). What surprises me more than anything though is that of all vehicles, a tall vehicle would have hit the bus. On a street near where I work, there is no bike lane or shoulder, and when the public transportation buses stop, they have to stop in the street. It's not a big deal ... except, for when someone is in a hurry weaving through traffic, and swerves to the right lane, out from behind an SUV in front of them, and SMACKS into the back of one of the buses at about 45mph. It seems like at least once per month, I observe the aftermath of one of these accidents while driving by. It's clearly a repeat problem and something needs to be done about it, but the city doesn't have any room to expand the street for the buses. Perhaps lower the speed limit and having more traffic enforcement on that street would help.

Originally Posted by slickQUICKprius

To be fair, if this was a prius, the driver would have been decapitated. Either way a crash of this force, putting that much of the vehicle under the bus, would most certainly mean a loss of life for those in the vehicle.

I thought trucks and buses were required to have a bar/bumper down low in the back to prevent cars from going underneath them? I thought it was federally mandated?

Examples:
http://www.10gmobileadvertising.co.z...087/982942.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/18/23...c981c8c150.jpg
And for trucks that don't have a low bumper, check this out... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JHkjeC7UwU...ckStayBack.jpg

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[slickQUICKprius]

Originally Posted by Rybold

I thought trucks and buses were required to have a bar/bumper down low in the back to prevent cars from going underneath them? I thought it was federally mandated?

Good point. I believe they are. I was just looking at the picture and comparing the ride height of a hummer to that of our prius. At that speed and angle, I don't think much of an additional bar or bumper support would matter much, you're still going under.

[FL_Prius_Driver]

Um ..... damn. Sorry, really

You took the bait.

[jayman]

A long time ago, my dad told me "it's always a poor craftsman who blames his tool"

That is SO true