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Might just be my experience but in the UK at least, it’s almost exclusively women who drive cars like this. Men more commonly drive vans and super large vehicles to be fair, but specifically larger than necessary, non-tradesman style cars (Land Rovers, very clean, empty pick-ups etc.)
Yeh because they want to feel safe. All it is. And it's not safer at all.
I'm sure it's safer for them, but not for the kid they'll accidentally run over because they simply couldn't see it.
But it's not safer at all. They handle like shit.
By safe I meant they won't be the ones killed in an accident. They won't feel the impact cuz their car just keeps going.