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Cunts who purchase cunt cars don’t care about others. More at 11.
Wait did someone think people buy cars with others in mind? (Noting that “impressing” others is for the self, not the others)
Are you kidding? The risk to pedestrians is a bonus to the average motorist.
How is the financial penalty of them costing a shitload more to buy and run not enough, why do people want these?
I think a lot of people don’t want them. But in my case there wasn’t any normal car that had the features I wanted. I’d rather not need it but I really do if I’m gonna be able to work full time.
What features did you need that couldn’t be offered in a sedan or small hatchback?
Any who lives in snowy conditions could want the additional ground clearance or weight for traction.
Ground clearance, all wheel drive, and winter tires are all available on more reasonably sized vehicles.
Unnecessary; roads get salted or cleared by public organisations.
Never lived in northern new england i take it? Maybe in your neck of the woods they get plowed early and often. In some parts of the country you won’t get to work until noon if you wait for the plows.
So then the issue is the lack of plowing. How does a big car solve that? Is there no work from home option?
Do company employers not try to take the weather into account? Are there no work from home options?
I wanted a car that was relatively quiet and a plug in hybrid. Not a big list of demands by far.
But so many of the PHEVs are SUVs nowadays.
Why do you want a plug in hybrid? Haven’t they been shown to be useless for the climate?!
Because the vast majority of my traveling can be done using electricity and not gasoline.
It is way cheaper to charge it and I frankly like to drive it more, when it is using electricity. Sometimes I do longer trips and need to use gasoline and I do not have the option of charging it at home.
If only there existed some coordinated organization on a national level that could create laws to ensure the safety of pedestrians.
There does, and it does, but that doesn’t really seem to be the point to me. This is very much a “loud exhausts correlate to dark triad personality traits” kind of story. Or perhaps more like how everyone knows they participate in actual atrocity and torture against vulnerable individuals but just keep buying their corpses.
You do realise the government can just ban cars above a certain size anytime they want right? Like I can’t buy a tank and drive it down the road, or a car that is wider than the size of a lane. All they have to do is adjust the limits to weed out the dangerous and inefficient models. Sometimes talking apes are far too stupid to allow their non-existent critical thought to self-regulate their actions.
With how popular huge SUVs seem to be, that would be a very unpopular measure. Then you also have the car manufacturer lobbies squeezing your balls if you try to pass something like that.
I’d like a middle ground where these cars have much higher insurance premiums and are heavily taxed in proportion to their space usage.
Want to drive around in a car that weighs 3x my city car, then you need to pay 3x as more.
The implication is that the buyer is a bad driver, which most people would think is someone else since they are actually a good driver. The Dunning-Kruger effect applies here.
I guarantee that most of the apes buying emotional support vehicles do not think or care about the world outside their idiot brains.
