As pedestrian and cyclist deaths rise, the growing size and weight of American vehicles are making streets more dangerous. Here's some solutions: tax oversized vehicles, improve safety ratings and make smaller electric vehicles a more practical option for everyday trips.
They killed it because they could make more money selling larger vehicles, because people would be willing to pay more for larger vehicles. If they wanted to get the same profit margin on a Fiesta, it would never worked because nobody would have bought them.
Anyway, one thing that is definitely true is that our Mad Max roadways push people into bigger and bigger cars just to feel safer from the bigger and bigger cars, and this after decades of being chased off bikes and sneakers because cars make every form of transit worse. That’s a failure of regulation, 100%.
So is it people that are idiots, or corporations and government that are evil for allowing them to be sold? Idk. I’d say 50 50.
I cringe seeing co workers $80k pickups they just bought to haul their 1 kid around (never once towed or touched dirt) .Oh and theyre bankrupt so no fucking clue how theyre affording all this shit.
They killed it because they could make more money selling larger vehicles, because people would be willing to pay more for larger vehicles. If they wanted to get the same profit margin on a Fiesta, it would never worked because nobody would have bought them.
Anyway, one thing that is definitely true is that our Mad Max roadways push people into bigger and bigger cars just to feel safer from the bigger and bigger cars, and this after decades of being chased off bikes and sneakers because cars make every form of transit worse. That’s a failure of regulation, 100%.
So is it people that are idiots, or corporations and government that are evil for allowing them to be sold? Idk. I’d say 50 50.
I cringe seeing co workers $80k pickups they just bought to haul their 1 kid around (never once towed or touched dirt) .Oh and theyre bankrupt so no fucking clue how theyre affording all this shit.
80? That’s a steal.