More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space
More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space
www.theguardian.com
More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space
I really don’t get why people like to buy such huge gas guzzlers and somehow those are the people I hear complain about gas prices the most
We should really just have EU law that over a certain size requires a new license that isn’t automatically given to people that have one now.
I reckon doing what Norway does and just tax them by the weight of the vehicle to to discourage people buying them while alps making those that do pay for the extra wear and tear in the roads they cause.
Sadly this does discourage EV growth which I do think still should continue instead of having fuel cars. I'd love if air quality would go up again.
It's not just ICE cars that are huge. Even new EVs tend to be unnecessarily large SUVs or Sedans.
Very much, I drove an ID.4 as a company car for 6 months and it was such a horrible experience. Huge and just to move 1 55kg person c'mon man.
Also drove a Tesla M3 after that and was already much better, low on the floor and felt much safer and good to drive. Would love to have an electric version of my Toyota Yaris (hybrid), its a great size for me.
Oh even better? Cheaper public transport so I don't have to take the car to save money!!
Its green and eco-friendly so i can waste as much of that extra energy as i want seems to be the attitude people have. We've made emissions be the spotlight of our energy crisis when the total amount of energy we use is still important, potentially even more important than just reducing emissions alone.
As a dumbass American who's been considering that for forty years, let me try to help: The short answer is, very tiny pee-pees.
I wish I had a better answer, but that's honestly the majority reason. They do bang on about "safety" a lot, but when that's scientifically proven to be false they still say it so - back to item number 1.
Over here, the enormous gas-guzzlers eventually weren't enough so they had to super-size even them. Now we have these gargantuan death behemoths everywhere for absolutely no reason (well, for one reason).
Good luck, given all the car lobbying going on here...
Its so sad, here in the Netherlands if public transport was just cheaper it'd already be able to replace almost all my commuting. But I pay less for my car driving somewhere AND back than a 1 way train ticket.