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Today's rubbish driving...
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Posted 2 weeks ago #
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Generic callousness rather than specific this time:
“SUV buyers undeterred by warnings of risk to pedestrians, UK study finds”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/20/suv-risks-warnings-road-safety-buyers-uk-study
Posted 1 week ago # -
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The findings indicate that if governments want to reduce the number of large, dangerous vehicles on the roads, it is likely to require financial penalties, according to the psychologists at Swansea University who led the research.
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Er NO
IF Govs want to do anything they need to be banned in current form or (minimum) reclassified with much stricter driving test
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A series of studies have shown that sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and similarly oversized domestic vehicles such as pickup trucks are more dangerous than standard cars for pedestrians and cyclists. Much of the risk comes from their higher and blunter front ends.“
THIS IS NOT NEW
Remember bull bars?
At least they were banned
Posted 1 week ago # -
In a similar vein:
‘Carspreading’ could lead to extra 2,600 crash deaths a year by 2040, study finds
Analysis shows cars in Europe have grown longer, taller and wider every year since 2000
The increase in size, which leaves people more likely to be killed in a crash and increases emissions that hurt lungs and heat the planet, has progressed at a roughly steady rate for two and half decades even as family sizes have fallen, the campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) found.
Car bloat is frustrating drivers, too, with cities expected to lose 8.5-14% of on-street parking by 2040 if the historical trend continues unchecked, the analysis found. London and Berlin are each predicted to lose about 100,000 parking spaces.
The findings come as research shared exclusively with the Guardian shows potential SUV buyers are undeterred by warnings that they are more likely to kill pedestrians.
The authors recommended capping bonnet heights and car widths, changing taxes to discourage people from buying bigger vehicles, and tightening vehicle standards so they considered the visibility of young children from the driver’s seat.
(Wasn't Gembo suggesting a campaign against large cars at some point in the past? I don't seem to be able to track that down since the search function appears not to, er, function.)
Posted 4 days ago # -
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Campaign Against Long Cars (CALC) - and wide
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citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19496
“search function appears not to, er, function“
Sadly true
Gone for ever
Have to rely on favourite browser/search engine
Posted 4 days ago # -
That's the one.
Turns out I posted on that thread myself not all that long ago. Duh.
I did try an online search but must have mis-spelled something. It returned a lot of CCE threads but not that one. Two excuses: 1) I was doing it on the phone, which doesn't like my fat fingers, and 2) gin.
Posted 4 days ago #
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