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Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees
- mytailorisrich 3y ago> "There are no dirt paths , no mountain roads … SUVs are absolutely useless in Paris. Worse, they are dangerous, cumbersome and use too many resources to manufacture" There's a level of hypocrisy in backing the measure with those arguments but to then exempt EVs from the increased fees...
- janandonly 3y agoInteresting remark: > He said the aim was “to focus on an absurdity: auto-besity … the inexorable growth in the weight and size of vehicles circulating in our cities, and particularly in Paris”. I like this new word, not obesity but autobesity. Indeed, bigger cars are on the rise in Europe. This makes the road less safe for pedestrians, bicyclers, and other smaller cars. This means we are now in a race-to-the-bottom, where on the bottom we all drive a tank to have the maximum amount of buffer-zone between our frail bodies and incoming traffic. Making the driving of bigger cars more expensive has an unfair downside: it becomes only affordable to the “worthy” (according to a free and open market economy), that is, to the rich. So, the choice is, do we want to live in: A. A safer world, but big cars are only for the rich. B. A dangerous-er world, that is more fair because it's more dangerous for everyone, except for the rich because they can afford tanks/cars that are even bigger.
- goethes_kind 3y agoSUVs and pickups are a plague that cause no end of trouble. They need to be heavily taxed. Most people driving SUVs and pickups are only doing it because everyone else is already doing it and they feel insecure in a normal sedan if everyone around them is driving a huge 5 ton vehicle. I understand that, which is why the government should intervene to eradicate them from the roads.