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Sadly, when towns and cities become dominated by large vehicles that barely fit in parking spaces, can't see pedestrians over their hood and around their enormo
by vanilla_nut 4y ago
Sadly, when towns and cities become dominated by large vehicles that barely fit in parking spaces, can't see pedestrians over their hood and around their enormous pillars, and shine their bright LED headlights directly into the eyes of folks driving more sensibly sized vehicles... everyone pays the cost of the large vehicles.
I've experienced a lot of crosswalks, sidewalks, bike lanes, and car lanes that enormous vehicles have blocked because they don't fit in a normal parking space. It creates dangerous situations very easily. And with the poor daylighting (cross-traffic visibility at intersections) in US cities, these giant vehicles make it even harder to drive, walk, or bike across town because parked or stopped vehicles completely block your view of traffic.
Growing car sizes is a failure of government safety regulation, and unfortunately I don't see much benefit for society from it.
- rhaway84773 4y agoIt also encourages a doom loop where people using smaller cars feel less safe because of the massive cars around them, so when it comes to buying their next car, they buy a massive car as well, making those still in smaller cars feel even more unsafe.
- acdha 4y agoIt also sucks for drivers: we have a lot of two way roads which are no longer capable of handling two way traffic because they lost a foot on each side with wider parked vehicles and the passing trucks are wider, too. You only need one parked Canyonero on a block to force everyone to take turns.