It’s a franchise and the franchiser doesn’t always know what’s going on at their franchisees operation. This is not so much the case now with internet reviews at third party sites but was definitely the case 50 you ago when @VDCdriver had his bad stay.
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Exactly, applies to almost any franchise. Had a local fast food franchise the did not participate when the company ran advertisements for special pricing “at participating restaurants “.
That store is now gone.
We see that on this site with car dealerships, some service departments are very good, others concentrate on upselling unnecessary services.
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All those laws are done at the city/county/state level. Good luck with that.
And it would take maybe 50 years for rezoning to have a significant impact…
Totally understandable to want to protect your child. It’s definitely the case in a collision between a larger vehicle & smaller, the folks riding the larger will likely come out in better shape. However, it’s not just this fellow who’s buying a larger vehicle. His neighbor is doing the same. And so the collision may well be between two large vehicles. In that case, the outcome is not as clear … I wonder if there ha ve been any scientific studies on this? i.e. Comparing collisions between two large vehicles vs two smaller vehicles, is their a clear winner passenger safety-wise?
The large vehicles which people purchase for safety are usually taller vehicles. Taller vehicles flip over more easily an accidents. What they end up with is a vehicle that is more dangerous on Interstate highways, but safer on non divided highways and in city traffic.
At least in the past large vehicles were all body on frame. Body on frame is weaker than a unibody given the same weight. So they’re generally worse than two unibody cars hitting each other. They’re also typically real wheel drive, so they don’t have the safety advantage of a transverse engine. Today some are better. On some the frames are stronger and they’re more of a hybrid unibody and body on frame design. But the IIHS has no test for the Ford Expedition. It’s the same for many other large vehicles. The 35 MPH NHTSA test is something that most vehicles since the 70s have passed. It’s only valid for discovering a complete death trap, which no company makes today.
Never flipped an SUV yet. Have an urban assault vehicle and a smaller vehicle, smaller more prone to hydroplaning at highway speeds. Driver is more the culprit of mishaps than the vehicle itself. imhop
One may visit Brooklyn, but one should only stay at a hotel in Manhattan.
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That statistic doesn’t take in to account how many miles the vehicles are driven. Such statistics are useful to the insurance industry or anyone who simply wants to know how likely to be in an accident a particual vehicle type will be. It’s useless if you’re deciding between two vehicles that you will drive the same way.
From 2005 to 2015 the death rate for midsize and large cars went down to about 2/3 of what it was. For SUVs the difference is huge. Fatalities are down to 1/3 of what they were. But this is misleading. The problem is with how they are categorized. Crossover “SUVs” have become very popular and mostly replaced the SUVs of the 90s. Crossover SUVs are bult more like minivans. They’re low to the ground with higher seating. Pickup trucks have gone through a similar transformation to a lesser extent. The other issue with this statistic is cars have become significantly heavier while staying in the same size class. A 2015 Corolla is a compact car but it now weighs what the full size Toyota car of the 90s weighed. A Yaris now weighs what a Corolla of the late 90s weighed. AS far as safety is concerned it’s weight much more than size that matters. The graphs should be looked at comparing the right column to the row below in the left column to account for the increase in weight, at least for the car category.
I consider crossover SUVs to be in the car or minivan category. They are front wheel drive, unibody, and low to the ground. They are not off road vehicles. They’re essentially in the large or very large car category.
There are also sports cars like the Corvette in the large car category which really push up the numbers.
This particular statistic from IIHS is known to be unreliable. They have huge margins for their statistics if you look at the individual vehicle numbers. They’ve even listed 0 fatalities for some vehicles when if I remember right you could search news articles and find a story of someone who died in such a vehicle.
Can you find a statistic that shows the rate minor accidents per vehicle type? That’s an inidicator of how much it is driven, as far as hours on the road.
I found statistics that prove my point. Your turn.
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Under the heading of look there, don’t look here, Bloomberg reported that diesel inventory is at a 25 day supply level. The lowest since 2008. Who uses diesel? Trucks, military. Emergency generators and on and on. Winter is just getting started. If we have a problem we’ll just tap the emergency stockpile. Oh wait, we already did. Buy another sweater as the feds used to say. Have a nice breakfast.
Breakfast? What breakfast? Can’t afford eggs … lol …
Just kidding. I can afford eggs. I actually am planning to buy some eggs tomorrow, want to make some waffles. I prefer the flavor of waffles made w/out eggs, but they stick to the waffle iron with no eggs in the batter. I can afford gasoline too, but will probably ride my bicycle to buy the eggs instead of driving the truck. If anybody here has ideas how to make waffles without eggs, I’m all ears 
I’m a Conservative / Free Market Economy advocate where choices are individual, only subject to Economic and Govenment control.
On the other hand necessities like Heating oil (diesel) is $4+ per gallon, about twice what it was a year ago so what should “The Govenment” do?
Can any government exist where the “needs” of the the 10 MPG Ferrari driver outweigh the “needs” of a homeowner seeking to warm their home?
Government money spent to encourge domestic supply but as important money spent to encourage a switch to domestic supplies is equally importantant.
That means subsidies (Taxes) to encourge the change to domestically produced oil, gas and electricity, the infatructure to support them and more importantly the “appliances” to utilize them.
Do we support Cadillac Escalade Diesiels or New England homeowners freezing their ass off?
Well gee, one word, pipeline. Had it not been cancelled it would be supplying a million barrels a day. Nothing like killing all the chickens and then wondering why there is an egg shortage.
I know nothing about making waffles. The wife has a secret recipe that remains secret to me. I usually just buy them.
High sulfer stuff that gets exported?
We should support neither, but rather figure out and implement policies that would teach those new england homeowners how tovearn more money, and how to manage it better.
No, that fallacy is completely refuted by the actual facts. At the time of the project’s cancellation in 2021, only 8% of it had been completed, and even if construction of that project had continued, it would still not be producing any flow of its tar sands at this time.
In addition to the fact that it is a high sulphur product that gets exported for uses other than gasoline, it would have added only about 1% to the world’s petroleum supply.
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The major problem with the keystone pipeline was it’s route. And it would barely have an impact on our gas prices.
Had it not been cancelled it wouldn’t be supplying any oil, it wasn’t due for completion until sometime next year, and that date was estimated before covid screwed everything up.
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