Not to mention that they require no additional driver training.
You can pass your test in a Ford Ka, then hop in a 2 tonne range rover the next day.
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DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Emissions aside, those big SUVs are so ugly and unnecessary for your average driver.
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 8 months ago
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’ve never even considered that, but it is wild. Like those grandmothers who have spent 60 years driving tiny little cars and then one day their family gets them a fucking tank to drive around in and they suddenly start putting everyone’s lives at risk because they have zero experience behind the wheel of a vehicle that’s at least double the size of what they drove their entire life beforehand.
Rambler@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Good point. Let’s make every new passer drive an old banger for a year - I’m absolutely fed up of monkey-lipped young girls forcing me to my side of the road because they can’t fucking negotiate the width of their fucking tractors!
Sorry for the rant, but I drive a classic - and it fucking riles me - every day ! I used to enjoy driving - now it’s a daily nightmare.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 8 months ago
What does monkey-lipped mean, I’ve literally never heard that phrase?
Flax_Vert@mastodonapp.uk 8 months ago
@GreatAlbatross @DeathWearsANecktie to be fair you cannot drive on a motorway until you pass and then once you pass you can go straight onto it unattended.
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 8 months ago
You can use the motorway with a an accredited driving instructor before you pass.
The motorway can be an odd one too: The speeds are higher, but they can be one of the safest ways to drive.
Afaik, the reason motorways don’t feature on the test, is that some test centres are 50 miles or more away from one
Flax_Vert@mastodonapp.uk 7 months ago
@GreatAlbatross Apparently you can in England, whoops
MDZA@feddit.uk 8 months ago
And because they’re heavier, there’ll be more wear and tear on the roads too.
Pasta4u@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What do u think a electric car eith its huge batteries would do ?
Telsa model 3 is 3000 pounds
Chevy equinox is 3300
Chevy traverse is 4300
Tesla model Y 4400
Tesla model x 5200
Chevy suburban is 5700
Vegoon@feddit.de 8 months ago
And the Rivian R1T is 6949 pounds.
But there is the dacia spring with 2304 pound.
EV does not automatically have to result in huge heavy cars.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Top speed of 125kph, 0-100kph in 19 seconds… Sure, city cars don’t need to be as heavy but then why need a car at all?
MDZA@feddit.uk 8 months ago
It’s a good point about the weight of EVs. I suppose it’s a question of whether the benefit of EVs are worth the extra wear on the roads.
When comparing ICE cars though, it’s a pretty clear cut argument that SUVs are worse for everyone except the occupants.
Pasta4u@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Suv’s are not always worse.
Equinox 26/31 Corvette is 16/25.
Equinox can fit five adults plus room for luggage or other items in jt.
He’ll the Chevy malibu is 27/35 amd is a Sedan. I rather the equinox
Fedop@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Oh man this one is so big for maintenance costs, the damage is exponential! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
Pipoca@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Which mostly means it doesn’t matter. Car vs electric truck is basically a rounding error compared to either a lorry or the regular freeze-thaw cycle.
paintbucketholder@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s also such a race to outsize other vehicles.
I know SUV drivers who bought an SUV because “everyone owns an SUV, and if you’re driving around in a smaller car, you can’t see anything around you any more.” They’re not even wrong, in some communities it’s getting really hard to participate in traffic of you’re constantly surrounded by much larger, taller cars on all sides.
But of course, they’re now just perpetuating the problem.
epicbomber@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
One thing I noticed the other day while going through a new drive through is that the increase in vehicle size is noticable there. I drive a sedan, and most of the drive through windows near me are level with my car’s window, but the one that I went through the other day was built in the last year or so, and the window was significantly higher up than my car’s.