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Europe is more densely populated and the cultures tend to be less "mobile", so people don't need to transport as much stuff as far, and Europe has more old infr

by bossrat 11y ago

Europe is more densely populated and the cultures tend to be less "mobile", so people don't need to transport as much stuff as far, and Europe has more old infrastructure with narrow streets, so larger vehicles are not practical; the US has space galore, and was a generally wealthier place during the period of highway and suburb construction. people need to stop thinking that Americans are so different than Europeans, and especially that there is so much superego-tic morality attached to everything we each do.

hugh4 11y ago
But how can Americans socially signal their sophistication and enlightenment without talking about how much better things are in Europe?
- csours 11y ago
  Edit to add to the actual conversation: I guess this goes to show that even Europe suffers from regulatory capture. Listen here boy, I'm from Texas [1] and them's fighten words! /s? 1. Actually am from Texas.
- dang 11y ago
  Please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
tomp 11y ago
You didn't really answer the question. It seems a bit ironic that the US is criticising diesel cars when US petrol cars are (I'm guessing because they're bigger) much less efficient than EU petrol cars.
- bossrat 11y ago
  "the US" is not criticising diesel cars, that is one article on vox.com Of course, it was in the US where the widespread European diesel cheating was discovered :) but again, that was a small number of Americans measuring, and they don't speak for the whole country either. And I did pretty much answer the question, it was asked if there are more big cars in the US as rumored, and I didn't say "no", I said "...it's because of these reasons"