[vooch]

SUVs still have roll over death rate 2-5 times their regular car counterparts.

stability control can’t change the laws of physics - a CG 36inches in the air will always be far more dangerous than a CG of 12inches.

plus the enormous weights of SUVs are just scary frightening. Trying to control a 7,000lbs object traveling 60MPH is orders of magnitude more difficult than controlling a 3,000lbs object at same speed.

Empirical Data shows the death rate for SUVs is off the charts.

[mewzilla]

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalityfacts/passenger-vehicles

Death rate looks to be about the same for pickups. 2016 is the latest year there are stats for.

[Don W]

Figures from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show that most passenger cars have about a 10% chance of rollover if involved in a single-vehicle crash, while SUVs have between 14% and 23% (varying from a low of 14% for the all-wheel-drive (AWD) Ford Edge to a high of 23% for the front-wheel-drive (FWD) Ford Escape)

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_sport_utility_vehicles

[RayChuang88]

I agree with you if you're talking a truck-based SUV like the larger American models. But a car-based SUV (e.g., the current Honda CR-V or the upcoming 2019 Toyota RAV4) have much lower centers of gravity, and as such with the stability system turned on they're not as easy to roll over as people think.

Indeed, on my 2015 Honda Fit, it's really hard to roll the vehicle (despite its high height for such a small car) because its center-mounted fuel tank results in a very low center of gravity.