Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by toast0 on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:01PM
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Minimum road width tends to be set for use by emergency vehicles. Can't really reduce those unless you want to mandate smaller emergency vehicles. Kei-class fire trucks exist, but don't seem popular.
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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by laurencerowe on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:35PM
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While European roads are far smaller than American roads their fire engines are still based on large trucks and only about 3/4 the size of US ones. Look at the examples here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_engine
I did read of one town in the UK that bought a Kei-class truck but it was an unusual situation.
The standard in the UK seems to be a 3.7m (12ft) wide road to access buildings over 11m high. https://www.ukfrs.com/guidance/search/vehicle-access