121 points

SUV, Truck, SUV, SUV, SUV, SUV, sedan, SUV, SUV, SUV, SUV.

The culture problem around big vehicles we’ve created with bad regulation and aggressive marketing is depressing.

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It isn’t just a culture problem, it’s a tragedy of the commons.

When you’re surrounded by giant vehicles, the only way to be feel safe and see the road is to have a giant vehicle.

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The only way to feel safe. The really big ego-support vehicles are no safer than a subcompact to be inside of, but they are far more likely to kill your own family.

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Well sure, though not being able to see anything around you when deep in truck/suv traffic is pretty scary in a sedan.

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Physics says that in a collision, the heavier vehicle will always come out better. Higher mass means more resistance to acceleration, so it will take longer to change speed and impart less force on the occupants. This is one reason why buses sometimes don’t have seatbelts, when the bus collides with much lighter cars it will be largely unaffected.

If everyone has a heavy vehicle, it’s worse overall because of higher kinetic energy causing more dramatic collisions. And obviously significantly worse for everyone outside a car.

Hence the arms race.

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That’s not the tragedy of the commons, and that’s not why everyone drives turboencabulators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

It is, I shit you not, a cold war tariff on fucking chickens. There’s some other shit that’s glommed on over the centuries, but the mad-science breeding program to create a pickup truck big enough to swallow the sun started with a stupid trade dispute over chickens between the krauts, the frogs, and the yanks.

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it’s a tragedy of the commons.

A gentle heads up that the guy who coined that term was a huge piece of shit, and was almost certainly wrong.

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1 point

Dead link

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The basic notion regarding the exploitation of limited, unregulated public resources leading to depletion is significantly older than that term or the essay with that title..

The notion is echoed by a lot of thinkers, including that of Karl Marx in his deconstruction of capitalism. We need to make a society aware of this tendency much the way we have to be mindful, as a society, of prejudice divisionism.

Otherwise, overexploitation of common resources is going to kill us if we can’t find a way to circumvent the problem, such as by reaching out into space as local resources become dire.

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It’s funny too that SUVs and trucks also have themselves gotten bigger. I own an 11 year old SUV and I feel dwarfed on the road by every other new SUV I see. Trucks are insane too, some are so big they don’t fit in regular parking spots. Compare that to older pickups with the same bed space that are smaller than some sedans.

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7 points

OVER FUCKING CHICKENS!

I HATE IT HERE!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

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6 points

Failed state which retains cold war revenge tax.

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6 points

Its deadly.

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98 points

So glad they put that thick protective white line there so I know I won’t be hit 🥰

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It’ll be super protective when it snows!

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Ironically enough, this is how the pavements are in the ski resort I live in. It’s a “shared zone”, pedestrians have the same rights as vehicles. It slows everyone down because nobody knows when the next braying snowboarder trust-fund baby is going to stagger out in front of you.

Oh and as for the snow, we have adorable little mini snowploughs for the pedestrian bit

Edit to add pic -

Of course it uploaded upside down

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And the snow will pile up on that lane, because the street needs to be free and nothing else.

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10 points

If you let them out unsupervised, I’m calling the cops!

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4 points

kids don’t play outside because they don’t want their last moments on this earth to be recorded with this in the corner

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60 points

What in the stupid is this?

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Cheaper than a sidewalk, apparently.

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21 points

The cost being the life of pedestrians? This is insane.

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11 points

That doesn’t show up on the balance sheet 😬

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9 points

What do you mean? The white line keeps the cars out…

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46 points

If you are walking you’re either poor or up to no good, in both cases we don’t want you around these parts. Oh, your kids need to walk? Don’t be lazy and DRIVE them where they need to go!

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Don’t be lazy and DRIVE

For the briefest of moments I felt a spark of blinding hot rage in my heart. Now I am left with the lingering feeling of wanting to smash my head against a rock.

Thank you for that experience.

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1 point

use a bike with a baby seat or passenger seat instead of driving

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