Even under the very best of conditions, motorcycles can be much more difficult to
see than passenger vehicles.
Not exact matches
The Chevrolet Sonic also boasted an impressive year - over-year gain, in a month when Chevrolet
passenger cars (
vehicles other
than crossovers and trucks)
saw sales climb a combined 10 percent.
It's well established that parents only use top tethers with forward - facing child restraints about half the time despite the fact that
passenger vehicles have had corresponding anchors to attach the straps for more
than a decade (
see «Top tethers on child restraints are used less
than half the time,» Sept. 8, 2010).
One of the reasons we've
seen an increase in the amount of back - up injuries is that larger
vehicles (which have become increasingly popular through the last ten years) have much larger blind spots
than your average
passenger car.
Pickup trucks have migrated from being utilitarian
vehicles to being
passenger cars: the majority of Toyota Tundras and Ford F150s we
see on the roads are used for nothing more strenuous
than the odd trip to The Home Depot.
The 5 -
passenger seating may come up a bit short as well, because these
vehicles are
seen as people movers more
than off - roaders.
Add this to the fact that long - range, lower cost electric cars are finally becoming increasingly viable, and that cities are exploring ways to reduce dependence on motor
vehicles overall — and you really start to
see a convergence of factors which should lead to diesel's demise in the
passenger car market much sooner
than many of us would have expected.
A motorcycle presents a far smaller profile
than a
passenger vehicle, making it especially difficult to
see.