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Truck purchases are driving up the average cost of car payments. Some buyers pay over $1,000 a month (www.nbcnews.com)

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More than 1 in 4 car shoppers in Texas and Wyoming have committed to paying more than $1,000 a month, and experts say it is due to the high volume of large truck purchases in those states, according to a report by auto site Edmunds.

More than 1 in 5 shoppers in seven other states — Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota and Utah — are also forking over more than $1,000 for their vehicles each month.

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[–] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1730245/

The nanny state loves to exaggerate 🙄.

Passenger cars and light trucks (vans, pickups, and sport utility vehicles) accounted for 46.1% and 39.1%, respectively, of the 4875 deaths, with the remainder split among motorcycles, buses, and heavy trucks.

7% delta. The really aren't that much more dangerous than cars.

[–] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This was published in 2005. Yet you accuse me of exaggerating? Grow the fuck up.

For everyone else, these statistics are at least from this decade: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/large-trucks

[–] utiandtheblowfish@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Large trucks in this instance are things like 18-wheelers, not trucks like the Ford F-150 or Dodge Ram.

[–] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair but at least my data is relevant to this decade. I’ll try to look up the correct data in a bit so my point lines up accurately.

[–] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

👌👍 let me know when you find that recent data. This is the often stated report for decades due to the lack of research. I'm quite confident you won't find contradictory data in modern study, but if you do I'm 100% open to it.

What I find particularly funny is you just assume the slight increase in mass is going to make a larger impact than backup cameras front bumper cameras, and pedestrian avoidance systems (typically the most cited as dengerous due to blind spots) in addition to modern driving aids and a lower center of gravity from that generation..

It's quite an assumption.

[–] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sure was a lot of words for “I’m a giant asshole” 😂

This game is over. You can fuck off now.

[–] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

👌👍 guess you had great success.