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Higher cars roll over much easier, which is very dangerous, but safety is also a feeling.

With modern roof strength requirements, seatbelts and airbags this is a red herring. Rollovers these days tend to result in everyone walking away.

Especially as all these "mild" hybrids have enough of a battery to move the centre of mass so far down that they are lower than older sedans.

This is why Teslas won so many safety awards at the start: they were pretty much unrollable in the tests as they existed at the time.