Off road vehicles

Problem - SUVs are poorly designed for road use. They have a high centre of gravity, compounded by many other design faults including suspension and tyres because of a design brief that comes from the marketing department rather than the engineers.

The upshot is a vehicle that will rollover. And oh how they laughed down at Groucho's "We've convinced them to buy ugly expensive deathtraps by putting mountain bikes and beaches into car commercials. Give me another fuckin' line man I reckon I could sell bacon rolls in Haifa".

Now if you were the meddling type who felt the best thing to do would be to legislate to prevent some of the estimated 7,000 deaths and severe injuries attributed to rollovers in the US anually what laws would you suggest?

Something to address the root cause of the problem? Not a chance. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposes federal rules to make car roofs stronger.

Brilliant. Problem solved.

I hope the ditch they end up in has 5 feet of water in it.