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Autobesity: More than 150 car models too big for regular UK parking spaces
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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Not to mention that they are extremely wasteful and not good for the environment and our roads. If a small car and SUV went into a head collision the chance of survival of the passengers in the smaller car are much lower.
Bigger car = safer is exactly the kind of backwards thinking which causes so many people to unnecessarily buy big cars. The entire concept of Chelsea Tractors comes from middle-class parents thinking they need to do the school run in a tank so little Tarquin and Lilliput will be safe. We have Euro NCAP safety ratings for cars, judge the safety based on the actual tests!
That's one of the reasons I prefer being in the big truck
This is why I drive a tank. Fuck other people, only I matter.
Once the shells come in I am firing at construction sites to keep housing prices high.
Plus you'll own a weapon to protect yourself from other people's Tanks too... we should all buy tanks, to protect ourselves.
That logic worked before somewhere.
It's not the reason why I bought a truck. Just one of its benefits.
It's funny how you come up with this imaginaty caricature of me in your head and then get angry at it for absolutely no reason.
This is the same logic Americans use with gun ownership and look how well that's working out.
Hey, if I could own a welrod or even a goddamned slingshot without breaking the law here, I would.
Why?
Because maybe I want to relive my glory days as a youth with a toy projectile-thing and not go deaf because our laws require the gun be fucking loud as shit and big over here in murica. ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
Ohh. You're complaining you can't own a less lethal weapon, I interpreted it as you couldn't own a lethal weapon at all where you lived. I don't understand why you'd want a lethal weapon at all, that's insane to me.
It's not why I bought a truck. Just one of its benefits.
which would you rather your children be transported in
Uh... The best case scenario is two smaller cars. Riding a bigger car to protect yourself is not only extremely selfish, but entirely counterproductive as you encourage other people to do the same. This is very much a tragedy of the commons situation.
Indeed. What happened with cars in the US is an โarms raceโ on the road. Everyone wants to be in the bigger car so they just get bigger and bigger and reach a point where that e=mcยฒ equation is pegged.
max selfishness โ max energy
As expected, right-wing U.S. republicans disproportionately drive big cars. While liberals tend to favor small cars or bicycles.
The EPA essentially banned station wagons and people realized you can have spacious, often luxurious, vehicles for their children and whatever shit they're carrying. I prefer mid-sized sedans, but I only have dogs.
Wait, they banned estate cars? Iโve rented them at various points over the last ten years in the US, what exactly was banned about them?
This has some pretty good info on both. CAFE standards have perverse incentives (who could have guessed).
which one would you rather have your kid cross the street in front of?
Not the one with significantly higher rollover fatalities, that's for sure.
Just admit you're scared to drive and stop driving.
Train, bike, bus, etc.
Thanks for demonstration how being a parent can actually make you a worse person. Your children, or OPs for that matter, deserve to be safe and secure only as much as anyone else's, despite what your hormones may have convinced you.
And this is why i avoid roads whenever possible, god bless my city for having so many bike/pedestrian underpasses so we don't have to even come close to the death boxes most of the time.