I agree that most people don't understand how to properly drive a top heavy vehicle. However, you can't deny that there used to be a pretty serious issue with the smaller SUVs being rollover prone. Any of us that even understand how to drive them could end up flipping just with a deer running across us or another car swerving into us on the highway. You have to account for that and unfortunately you have to account for people not knowing how to drive them. Nothing is completely inevitable but minimizing this effect and creating a safer cabin space is crucial. It appears that other SUV manufacturers have rectified this well enough but Ford hasn't been in the SUV off-road game for a while and it would be catastrophic if cases started pilling up about rollovers.A hellva lot of the problem is most people just can't drive. They try and drive a tall 4x4 SUV like it's a sports car and no matter how many nannies you have they can't change the law of physics and bad stuff will happen. I had a 2013 Escape 2.0 ecoboost 4x4 and I drove it hard but when I traded it for a new Ranger I knew I had to change my driving style or I'd roll it. Most people ether can't or won't change there driving style and that's where the problem arises
I loved my Bronco ll but I know a vehicle like that wouldn't make it in today's standards. Chalking it up to just bad drivers is frankly careless and if Ford is smart it will take this matter seriously.
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