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jmoak3 | 2 years ago

I'm not a member of your imagined urban-illuminati (I live in suburban ky) and I think you're off base here. The majority of cars on our roads are huge and it's annoying. Forget emissions, waiting for some dork to 14 point park a bonafide land whale into a parking spot from the 1980's is enough to convert me. Living amongst these things is a pain and it's not like you're gonna wanna walk or bike anywhere with people going beast mode in these.

Would it kill these safety ratings agencies to add a new metric that's an inverted star-rating for how much a vehicle can flatten a Honda Civic? Start slapping Kill-Death ratios onto cars and I bet we'd see consumer preferences change fairly quickly. While we're at it we could roll back some of the MPG laws that heavily favor "light trucks" (big cars) over small ones too. No heavy handed bans necessary - give more information to consumers on how their cars are literally pancaking their neighbors and more choice in what kind of cars are profitable to make.

I'm a practical guy and I often eye picking up a truck just so I can be the bigger car when some idiot driving a tank inevitably hits me, and that sucks - those things are expensive. I want to buy a smaller car, a cheaper car, and I can't do that while most of the cars on the road are capable of projecting of anything under 3000lbs onto graph paper.

Median weight of USA cars: 4,094lbs.

https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-guides/average-weight-...

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