You guys may remember my inane rantings about the width of vehicles? It turns out I'm not insane on this issue at all and there's maths being done and it's not just the lack of English speakers in suburban areas that are going to become a major problem it's the fact that foreigners ( Yes it's mainly foreigners you see in these cars ) are buying cars that are too fucking big for most of the roads here.
Even the most irritating chav knows not to go onto minor roads with their fucking Subaru but lately I've been seeing it more and more that you have an even bigger problem than people buying massive cars that can't fit on even the major roads. There are douchebags who deliberately taking their oversized vehicles onto minor roads knowing they're too big and they block up the entire area stopping people from getting anywhere so everybody has to move around and accommodate them and I had an encounter yesterday dealing with just that which managed to set me off.
New data suggests that cars in the UK are starting to exceed the 180cm minimum width for on-street parking as drivers in Britain tend to opt for larger SUVs.
T&E's study found that the average width of new cars (not including the wing mirrors) expanded by 2.5cm between 2017 (177.8cm) and 2023 (180.3cm).
This one you may find particularly interesting.
This is because the traditional parking space at a supermarket or multistorey car park has remained unchanged for half a century.
The population density and vehicle size is simply changing far too fast for the infrastructure to keep up in a lot of places that were literally designed for horse and carriage. It's amazing the douchebags buying these vehicles can't put two and two together on that or they simply don't care and it seems to be more the latter these days. I know that quote was talking about supermarkets, but it's not just that, the minor roads are very much like this in the UK.
Oh this country is fucked, this is why I do my shops almost exclusively at night now, particularly at the worse times which in the UK is between 17:00 - 19:00 when everyone is coming home from their jobs. You have people clogging up roundabouts and making certain areas impossible to get through because they just occupy the roads rather than drive normally.
The articles are majorly wrong about one thing, the bigger vehicles are not going to cause more accidents, because in order to have an accident you have to be able to move. It's funny because they kind of contradict themselves in the articles themselves, at this rate it is going to be completely impractical to drive a car which is why I'm switching to a scooter.
Don't come here seriously lol.
The major shift in automotive aesthetics isn't just the size: it's the openness. If you look back at British and especially American cars from the late 20th century, especially pre-'90s, they all had massive windows, broad, tall windshields, and in America half of them were convertibles where you just drove around without a roof at all most of the time.
Windows have gotten steadily smaller and narrower as vehicles have gotten bigger, and they're also much more likely to be tinted now to the point where cops are pushing for laws against it.
I honestly think this corresponds with declining levels of social trust in the West. In 50 years, we've gone from having wide open cars, unlocked front doors and yards with no fences to building houses like fortresses and cars like tanks.
The window tint is a serious problem, especially on the windshield. Dumb faggots get darker and darker windows, brighter and brighter headlights to compensate and now nobody can drive at night without getting their retinas burned out or wearing sunglasses.
The mundane explanation is just safety regulations. If you want to survive a side impact, you need a thicker and taller door. Then you want side curtain airbags to deploy from the pillars, so those have to be thicker and they can't be as tall. That makes all cars heavier so you have to increase the thickness of everything, and it just snowballs.
Agreed, I just found it hilarious that there's maths to confirm everyone's prejudices. I ranted about Birmingham recently and one of the reasons it was so awful was definitely because of vehicles simply piling on top of each other with more than a few douchebags sporting dents which immediately gave away what they were going to try and do on the road.
Cars all look the same because of EPA regulations. There's only so many ways you can make a car aerodynamic to squeeze as much MPGs as possible.
The biggest exception in recent history is Elon's retarded Cybertruck, where it can ignore all fundamentals of chassis design simply because it's an EV.