The Times online reports that:
A jury has ordered the car manufacturer Ford to pay $368 million (£200m) in damages to a Californian woman who was paralysed when her Explorer sports-utility vehicle rolled over.
driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12389-1134277...l
The report says the driver argued that the Explorer's design made it prone to rolling over during common evasive driving manoeuvres, but quotes Ford as saying that it's not fair, because "any SUV would have rolled over under similar circumstances". Note: not any car, just any SUV.
Does this sort of vehicle need special driving techniques? If so, are drivers warned about them?
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>Does this sort of vehicle need special driving techniques? If so, are drivers warned about them?
No they dont need special driving techniques, but care. The big high ones anyway. They are less stable at speed than lower cars with sudden manoevours. There was a spate of swerving Range Rovers mounting the central crash barriers and landing in the other carriageway. Some of the handbooks do point this out.
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