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.
One of the dumbest hills that the right dies on is defending these ridiculously oversized retardmobiles that are the product of auto manufacturers getting themselves a loophole for CAFE standards. They're not even useful, plenty of older trucks are more reliable and have more storage capacity than the aforementioned gas-guzzling retardmobiles, without giving drivers a huge blind spot that leads them to running over kids.
Building out bigger and bigger roads for these retardmobiles is also a huge waste of taxpayer money, nevermind that their sheer weight places a level of wear and tear on current infrastructure that was designed for vehicles that were in turn designed for non-retards. I'm frankly amazed at how so many people will dilate over big government when it comes to building high-speed rail without realizing how big government is what's enabling them to drive their retardmobiles where they don't belong.
These things are so heavy they're more likely to get stuck in an all-terrain environment, they guzzle fuel which makes them less reliable when you're far away from any gas station, meanwhile they cause nothing but problems when they're being driven by some fatass office worker who wants to LARP as working-class. Meanwhile dudes who do the kind of work that actually requires trucks almost never drive these monstrosities, because why the fuck would you pour all that money down the drain of always needing more gas and always needing more maintenance since their huge engines have more wear and tear?
Now you mention all of this they did a Grand Tour episode not so long ago and they talked about how much they hated SUVs precisely because of how useless they were, yet everybody is buying them regardless. Electric vehicles are their own special brand of annoying but shitty oversized vehicles that don't even work properly are annoying in their own way too.
Electric vehicles have the problem of being a firefighter's nightmare, lithium-ion batteries are basically fire bombs and when shit finally hits the fan electric cars will be the perfect car bomb. What's more is that cars these days can be hacked and remotely driven.
Now Idk enough about electrical engineering to know if these batteries can be overloaded remotely or if they need manual modification, but even if it's the latter it's just gonna be a 21st Century upgrade of traditional car bombs.
Nevermind how heavy batteries are, electric vehicles are way heavier than their ICE equivalents which makes them way more lethal even if they don't explode. Combine that with the aforementioned ability to remotely operate them, and the way they can accelerate incredibly fast, and you'll be able to bowling ball pedestrians and make the batteries explode through sheer kinetic impact.