Agreed, it'd also be a helpful trend-breaker to the ever bigger sizes of cars. We've never had such a high share of SUVs and trucks on the road, it makes everyo

Agreed, it'd also be a helpful trend-breaker to the ever bigger sizes of cars. We've never had such a high share of SUVs and trucks on the road, it makes everyone less safe. Road safety has essentially become a typical social dilemma now: everyone's self-interested pursuit of safety (driving a bigger car), leads to worse outcomes for all, and if we coordinated better by all driving lighter vehicles, we'd all be safer off. Still quietly hoping for solutions through regulation here in Europe, to severely limit the number of large cars (either requiring a special license like for busses, or through taxes based on their impact of weight on road maintenance and size on parking requirements). But I don't really see it happening. We really, really love our freedom of choice in the cars we buy, even if some of these cars are approaching the size of literal tanks [0] and can be driven by teenagers on the same streets shared with kids playing or people cycling. It's absurd to me. I'm also really hopeful about driverless tech. If the majority of cars are driverless, I'm sure the majority of vehicles on roads will become unmanned taxis, at which point we can have way more differentiation in size. Right now we all buy personal cars with a size/capacity to accommodate even the least frequent occurence of travelling with 4-6 friends, even if 9/10 trips we drive solo. But if you can just call-up a ubiquitous taxi, 9/10 taxis would probably be 2-man pods at most. It should reduce average car sizes (as it's cheaper to manufacture and operate) and increase average occupation, making driving cheaper and safer. But that may be 2 decades away. [0] https://www.motorbiscuit.com/american-trucks-suvs-almost-bigger-world-war-ii-tanks/ https://www.motorbiscuit.com/american-trucks-suvs-almost-big...