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Whether or not large cars are a modern, mostly unnecessary, luxury is a separate question from the assertion made by OP, which is that large car usage is primar

Whether or not large cars are a modern, mostly unnecessary, luxury is a separate question from the assertion made by OP, which is that large car usage is primarily driven by feelings of personal insecurity. My point is that you can never hope to solve a problem if you don’t even understand the fundamental circumstances that caused the problem to arise. Of course, not every person can know every thing, but it’s a good signal that you might be operating under false pretenses if your argument requires people to act in some derogatory way.

DamonHD 3y ago
Most of the words that I used such as large and dangerous are borne out by published official stats. And nothing so dramatically changed about the geometry or demographics of (say) the US or UK as to require massive rapid inflation in car volumne and mass. I have a whole separate gripe about people expecting more and more public land for free (a single parking space is worth ~£50k around me and should be rented out for ~£3k/year at market rates), and over two stories could accommodate one person. My house is being bulldozed soon in part because there was no other way to get people to allow increased residential density and stop using three parking spaces per household on average. In an place where my familiy doesn't even need one. Car advertising seems to be entirely about ego and fantasy, the little that I see. And SUVs etc are far more profitable for them, this again is unemotionally clear. The fact that they are prepared to kill more pedestrians, damage the planet, and be complicit in the theft of public space, all for a quick buck, is the reason for my bile.