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bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Imo, it should start with getting the MASSIVE cars and trucks off the roads. You wont convince us to get rid of our cars (i have many) because for a lot of us, we actually need them.

However, we DONT need Karen in an F350 that she takes to work and back by herself getting 5mpg and causing huge hazards due to massive blind spots. If only we could ban these vehicles or require better licenses that would at least help. I myself hate large cars, and only have a pickup (single cab, 40 years old, long box,) for hauling lumber or other house construction materials. All my other cars are under 3200 lbs. Even next to a new crossover they look TINY. And this further makes people who drive those monstrosities drive and act like assholes.

This will never change though. Redneck outrage would be too big a pushback and you cant change what car mfgs are doing.

If I had it my way, the only car youd be allowed to have is a miata, and a ute for work. If you have more than 2 kids you can get a wagon.

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Horsecook@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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- bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah but now they make what vehicles sell, and big shit sells now that the fat americans are used to it. They wont go back to small hatchback.
  
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  - fodor@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    That’s an easy fix. Just jack up annual registration or taxes, but only for large trucks and SUVs, to $10K a year. Problem solved… Or make it a scale based on engine size, or total car width/length/height, whatever. It’s so easy to regulate… And in fact the US used to regulate large vehicles more strictly, so we already know that it can be done.
    
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    magiccupcake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    An astonishingly easy fix would be to just add a tax like a property tax based on vehicle weight. Make it scale enough to be prohibitive, but anyone who needs it will be willing to pay.
    
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mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I might not be able to change what manufacturers are doing, but I do try.

I write them to let them know about their dangerous LED headlights. I write them to let them know exactly why I will not buy one of their vehicles, even used, because it has a giant touchscreen interface for core controls that is useless when the sun is shining on it.

I treat owners who are making the streets more dangerous for me like shit, and I’ll tell them why if they bother to ask. most will probably just say fuck off and not change their mind, but some might actually think about how their actions affect people.

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- bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Good for you ! I fucking hate those headlights and they should be illegal. Feel like smashing every damn Cadillac headlight in a parking lot sometimes…hmm
  
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