See also https://xkcd.com/3167/
Egoist mentality : “I’m scared of others, I need a car that looks like a tank so that at least I’m safe, even it means other are less so.”
Arguably capitalism is fostering “optimizations” but unfortunately it does so entirely amorally. When the only metric is profit then everything else becomes a negative externality to ignore.
TL;DR: yep.
Of course but fuel taxes increase because their mileage is better (more pounds per km). SUVs should pay more taxes proportional to their weight and height. I now see SUV-like vans that could ram twenty children before noticing anything
Road wear is ~n^4 where n is vehicle weight. Of course it’s because of SUVs.
Good, sell your car and ride the bus/train. If you live somewhere that isn’t feasible, move somewhere it is.
Every pothole that makes keeping a car untenable is actually the hero every traffic cop thinks he’ll be someday.
The group that’s most at risk due to bad road conditions, motorcycles, did nothing to deserve this.
They’re still using an internal combustion engine in a personal vehicle. They’re still destroying the ecosystem for their own minor convenience.
Fuck em, I hope they crash.
Why target SUVs when EVs are even heavier.
because suvs are unnecessarily heavy and evs are not.
They’re actually very similar weights.
Because they aren’t.
