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> While we like to make quite a bit of fun of the big cares American drive there's quite a good reason behind it. > The US has bigger families I'm not making
by tomp 11y ago
> While we like to make quite a bit of fun of the big cares American drive there's quite a good reason behind it.
> The US has bigger families
I'm not making fun of big SUV cars in the US, but about the big normal cars. For example, taxis in NY are huge, but they carry exactly as many people as a smaller European car.
- dogma1138 11y agoUK's black cabs are arguably quite bigger, yellow cabs in Asia in places like Hong Kong are also very big. Many places that historically had town cars and carriages seem to kept large cabin taxis because it was more attractive to people to ride in comfort (not having to crouch to get in for example) as well as allow you to easily pick 3 passengers with enough room that they don't have to be touching. You also forget that more than 50% of NYC's taxi's are hybrid these days, with the Prius being one of the most popular models to be converted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_taxi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_taxi
- tomp 11y agoUK's black cabs are big as well, yes. But most other cars are small. In contrast, many cars in NY seem just as big as yellow cabs. You're right, though, when I was there quite recently there were quite a few smaller, European or Asian cars like Prius or such.