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- cross-posted to:
- europe@feddit.de
- technews@radiation.party
While this is mostly about parking issues, the part that stood out most to me in this is:
A study published in the Journal of Safety Research last year found that children were eight times more likely to die when struck by an SUV than those struck by a passenger car.
Eight times! To me, that’s insane. Even if it were 50% that would be very bad, but this is 700% more!
This article totally ignores the actual biggest cars on the road, the american ones, the mentioned BMW i7 is 539cm long, but my neighbour has a Dodge Ram pick up at 583cm, yes he parks in the local co op, yes he fucks up everything cause nobody can get past, he also takes half an hour to get in the space.
Those new hummer evs are even bigger.
I do not get the pickup truck in the city thing. People think that if a car dealer will sell you a car, it’s everyone else’s obligation to make sure you can drive it absolutely everywhere, at any time.
It’s so weird. None of these people carry stuff in it either. They’re just going to the office in their shiny huge car.
It doesn’t mention them as it’s about the UK and no one drives those models here as you literally wouldn’t be able to get down lots of roads let alone park anywhere.
I live in the UK, they absolutely do. I just told the story about my neighbour?
Fair enough, I’ve never seen anyone push it that far over here in my experience.
You’ll spot one soon, still rare, but they’re ridiculously oversized and absolutely pointless.