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We really should put a limit on car sizes.
Make them have a commercial license and pay for commercial transporting or something.
In the US at least, you need a CDL if you drive a vehicle with a gross vehicle weight greater than 10,000 lbs (4536 kg). The 2022 GMC Hummer EV weighs a whopping 9,063 lbs (4111 kg) so that’s probably the largest vehicle a regular person would be able to buy.
That only matters if you’re “for hire”. I’m not aware of a single state or province where you can’t drive a 45 foot long tour bus RV towing a double car trailer on a regular license. You can legally b-train trailers in lots of places. Giant truck + huge trailer + cargo trailer full of quads and side by sides is totally kosher.
Edit: I can go buy a Ford F750 and drive it like a pickup truck if I want. The Hummer is not nearly the biggest vehicle a normal person can buy and drive
I’m 99% sure it’s 26,000lbs at least for a straight truck non combination.
Source: I used to be a CDL A holder
Didn’t the people of Paris vote in favour for charging triple car parking chargers for SUV’s? I’d like to see this more.
SUV sales have been crazy the last few years in the UK (I assume the rest of the EU too given every manufacturer starting making many different models of SUV’s). They stopped making people carriers in favour for SUV’s :(
Does anyone else find it crazy how absolutely lazy people got? When i go shopping in a lidl, it has pretty good parking, the furthest spot is maybe 50m away. But there are always a few lazy asses who park right next to the entrance where there is no parking, the handicapped spot or the ev charging spot (without being disabled or owning a ev. Even worse in an underground parking where i sometimes go. These fuckers rather wait and block the lane to park as close as possible, while half the parking on the other side is empty, and the spot is quite literally 3 car lengths away, you don’t have to wait to get in and you are closer to the exit where you also don’t have to wait. Biggest pea brains park there i swear.
I think people always were this lazy, but they were more considered to others.
But there are always a few lazy asses who park right next to the entrance where there is no parking,
YES. In the US I’ve noticed tons and tons of people parking in the Fire Lane (in front of the entrances of stores in strip mall). It used to just be lazy asshats who left their partner in the car so they could move it if a cop came. But now every store has unattended cars in front. It makes driving through the shopping area hazardous as now the extra-wide 2-lane roadway is blocked by a car. It also makes it a lot harder to spot pedestrians since they have to weave through illegally parked cars and it appears as if the pedestrians are coming out of nowhere from behind a car.
I wish the stores would call tow companies and make all these people think twice about how lazy they are to not walk another 20 ft.
There is also a big hardware store with 100+ parking spots and like 10 for for cars with trailers. The trailer spots are obviously closest to the store, and are always, ALWAYS occupied by anything but trailers or busses. Always some lazy fucks. I really wish they would enforce that shit. On the other hand i understand that they don’t want to vother and talk to these people.
The funniest are the multi layer parking structures. I was parking on downtown under a large mall and people were blocking the way to wait for a “close parking spot” on B1. Head down to B3 and it’s completely empty with spots right next to an elevator.
Like, that’s not even lazy at that point, it’s just dumb.
12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American pride! Canyonero! Canyonero!
I long so badly for a time where I can walk or train anywhere I need to go, and be rid of these monstrosities.