[helthanatos]

Trucks are safer to ride in than small cars. They have more utility than small cars. Your coworkers may want to have a vehicle that has the ability to do something. Parking is a bit of a hassle but as long as you don't have solid traffic, they're fine to handle. Small cars are more fun to race. Trucks and Jeeps are more fun to run trails.

[rsgoheen]

Not necessarily. Historically (though I couldn't find recent hard data in 60 seconds of searching the nets) cars have been safer [1][2], and in particular, less likely to roll over in an accident. Furthermore, when a SUV or truck collides with a car, it's more dangerous for the occupants of the car than in a car-to-car collision [3].

[1] https://www.trucks.com/2017/03/15/pickup-trucks-struggle-saf...

[2] https://www.quora.com/Statistically-are-you-safer-in-a-lifte...

[3] https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/05/suvs-are-sa...

Full disclosure: the last transport I owned was a 2001 Toyota Tacoma pickup. My current transport is the London Underground.

[bassman9000]

Has virtue signalling become that bad in HN that this perfectly fine opinion gets downvoted?

I see zero responses to it with the stats disproving his assertion.

[grzm]

If you think something is down voted inappropriately, just silently upvote it. If you've got additional substantive material to add, by all means do. It does no good and is against the guidelines to comment on the downvotes.

> "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[bassman9000]

Thanks, I'll try next time.

The sea of gray I see lately doesn't feel right.

[RickJWag]

Yes, it has.

HN is about one step above high school in that regard.