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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” by rootusrootus on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:22PM (#37039552)
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.
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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” by ChrisHyung on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:59PM (#37040143)
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.

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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” by ben_w on Monday August 07, 2023 @04:01PM (#37040173)
Most people don’t own SUVs, even in the USA; and even if they did, laws can be local, so it would be your city or whatever rather than everyone everywhere.
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