Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by rootusrootus on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:09PM
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Since (0) is impossible, the answer is the one already proposed.
Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by ben_w on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:10PM
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Why do you think (0) is impossible? Do laws not exist where you are? Are you not able to change them?
Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by rootusrootus on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:22PM
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To make (0) happen you have to force 10s or 100s of millions of people to give up their current vehicle and buy a new one. To some people that sounds feasible, but they're a good bit more authoritarian than the average politician in the US.
Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
by ChrisHyung on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:59PM
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It doesn't need to be a Fox news black and white argument about personal freedoms. Impose safety regulations that accounts for the people outside the vehicle, and the overall safety of the streets. You don't need to wipe out current SUVs and trucks overnight.
If they took away gas guzzling V8 engines, they can take away unwieldy oversized light pickups and SUVs.
(0) a place where nobody else can have an SUV whose extra size directly increases the danger to your kids, but you also can't own one to keep your kids slightly safer while you drive them; or
(1) a place where you can have an SUV that keeps your family slightly safer while they're in it, but everyone else can also own one and they make your family less safe whenever they're not in an SUV themselves?
Social rules are, at least at their best, a way to do better than a Nash equilibrium of mutual defection.