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Is this really surprising? The benefits of driving a large vehicle are all internal (comfort, safety of vehicle occupants, cargo capacity, range between fuelin
by amalcon 8y ago
Is this really surprising? The benefits of driving a large vehicle are all internal (comfort, safety of vehicle occupants, cargo capacity, range between fueling). The costs, however, are mostly external (road maintenance, emissions, safety of non occupants, space consumed for parking).
You'd need to substantially incentivize smaller vehicles to overcome these things, but we actually incentivize larger vehicles (through looser emissions standards).
- ajmurmann 8y agoI think you really touch on the core problem. All the negative externalities are eaten up by the community. The obvious solution is to stop subsidizing cars and instead start teaching the negative externalities. Ready first steps: 1. massively increase gasoline tax. 2. Get rid of all street parking. I personally would prefer to just ban all combustion engines, but people seem to think I'm insane when I propose this.
- TomMarius 8y agoBanning all combustion engines is too extreme, see this chart for reasoning: https://image.slidesharecdn.com/13hja01motivepowermst-141217111900-conversion-gate02/95/13-hja-01-motive-power-mst-17-638.jpg?cb=1418890147 https://image.slidesharecdn.com/13hja01motivepowermst-141217...