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3mo ago

How SUVs Are Making Traffic Worse

www.bloomberg.com

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

TLDR: SUVs cause traffic jams.

Actual study (full article): The rise of trucks and the fall of throughput by Yang Gao & David Levinson

9 comments

They also make accidents worse and the block vision of cars.
I’m not surprised
Well, it depends, my Sonata, a 4 door sedan, is 16'1", while my Sorento, a SUV, is 15'9"
- Yeah I think the article should differentiate large SUVs vs small ones. Many smaller SUVs are shorter in length than most midsized cars.
  
  Mostly because a lot of them are just compact cars with a lift kit.
- Yeah, my "SUV" and my wife's sedan take up almost exactly the same footprint.
Yeah, but so what? The goal is to get people onto transit not into smaller cars. And I say that as a tradesman who drives every day with my pickup truck full of tools.
If bigger vehicles make more traffic what does it matter? Line doesn't go up as fast?
- If you progressively make cars smaller and smaller, people will move to mass transit faster since it would be way more comfortable than cramming into a Hot Wheels car.
I’d rather be behind an SUV than a Tesla on autopilot.

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