More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/04/more-than-1m-cars-sold-in-uk-each-year-too-big-to-fit-typical-parking-space?
"Larger cars are more deadly in crashes than smaller ones, as they weigh more and have tall front ends that trap victims beneath them instead of knocking them to the side."
@epistatacadam
Worth noting that #autobesity means cars are wider than ever, and heavier and have fatter tyres.
Result: motorists are more likely to drive through puddles near the curb, and more water will be sprayed out when they do.
Progress!
#TheMilitantPedestrian
#TyreExtinguishers stencils ‘These cars kill Valencians’ on #SUVs in Edinburgh to highlight their role in the #ClimateCrisis
Ich finde da ja "Blaze und die Monster-Maschinen" gruselig. Die Serie richtet sich an Vorschulkinder und alle handlungstragenden Figuren haben Räder, Menschen (ohne Räder!) sind nur Sidekicks.
- #Autonormativität auf einem absurden Level
- #Maximaleventualbedarf wird normalisiert "[Blaze] hat die Fähigkeit, sich […] in jede beliebige Maschine umzubauen, wie zum Beispiel Flugzeuge oder Haushaltsgeräte."
- #Autobesity ist auch völlig normal
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaze_und_die_Monster-Maschinen
Update: With cars getting 5mm wider every year, and bigger cars more likely to kill other road users as well as pumping out ever more emissions, Paris votes to triple parking charges for vehicles over 1.6 tons, some, but not all of which, are SUVs, a distinction that is apparently important to car nerds.
With cars getting 5mm wider every year, and bigger cars more likely to kill other road users as well as pumping out ever more emissions, Paris votes to triple parking charges for #SUVs. This seems like an excellent strategy for avoiding the potentially regressive nature of schemes like London't #ULEZ which potentially penalises poorer people with older cars.
European cars are getting 1cm wider every 2 years #autobesity
"Crash data from Belgium from 2017 to 2021 shows that a 10cm increase in the height of vehicle fronts raises the risk of death by 30% when a car hits a pedestrian or cyclist, according to a study by the Vias Institute, previously the Belgian Institute for Road Safety."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/22/cars-growing-wider-europe-report
A lot of people out there don't seem to be bringing this up, but the #HummerEV actually weighs even MORE than the #Cybertruck (by a good >3,000 pounds), while having similar total dimensions. The Cybertruck weighs around 6-7,000 pounds and the Hummer EV weighs around 10,000 pounds.
Or in other words, if you happened to hit by either vehicle, chance of survival is probably close to zero (even at slower speeds) because of both weight and the lack of a sloped front.
END #AUTOBESITY NOW.
@davidzipper
Oooh that looks like a great site to go down the rabbit hole!
#Autobesity
A story that perfectly illustrates #autobesity is that my parents bought their house two years and are now planning to get the drive widened. They've had to park in the street that whole time because the drive has walls on both sides and if they park in it they can't open the car doors to get put. It's one of those postwar houses, so presumably the drive was perfectly adequate for ~60 years worth of cars till they moved in.
‘Autobesity’ on course to worsen air pollution caused by motoring https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/08/autobesity-on-course-to-worsen-air-pollution-caused-by-motoring?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
We need to get rid of Wankpanzers. Regulate based on max vehicle mass and tyre width. That will shrink and slow, reducing emission and NEE pollution considerably.
Definitely agree with this article that the rise of oversized utes on Australian roads is something we should be pushing back on, and it seems I'm not the only one concerned about the massive blind spots these cars have directly in front of the vehicle.
From the article:
"While they might feel like they sit nice and high with good visibility, the boxy front grille (which primarily exist to make the vehicles look “tough”) actually creates huge blind spots. A news crew put this to the test. They lined up a group of kids in front of a Ford F-150 until they were visible from the driver’s seat. It wasn’t until the eleventh child joined the row that a ponytail and the top of their head could be seen."
More than 150 car models too big for regular parking spaces
The ‘autobesity’ epidemic eats up public spaces
"More than 150 car models are now too big to fit in average car parking spaces. While the size of the standard parking bay has remained static for decades, cars have been growing longer and wider in a phenomenon known as “autobesity”."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/26/more-than-150-car-models-too-big-for-regular-uk-parking-spaces
#cars #consumption #autobesity #SUV #pedestrians #safety #PublicSpace #climate
Canada has the least fuel-efficient vehicles in the world.
Because of our cheap gas prices and crappy fuel efficiency standards, most Canadians are driving around vehicles much larger than they actually need.
Every city should be doing more to tackle 'auto-besity'. Bigger vehicles are more dangerous to pedestrians and put more wear-and-tear on streets.
Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees to tackle ‘auto-besity’
> Paris city hall is to impose higher parking fees on owners of SUVs in its battle to reduce pollution in the capital.
> Details of the charges have not been announced but the size, weight of the vehicle and its motor will be taken into consideration.
Parking charges based on vehicle weight
"In Paris, owners of big, heavy cars will have to pay extra to park. Size, weight and motor will be taken into account as councillors target ‘dangerous, cumbersome’ vehicles. The aim was “to focus on an absurdity: auto-besity … the inexorable growth in the weight and size of vehicles circulating in our cities..”.
"SUVs are dangerous, cumbersome and use too many resources to manufacture."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/11/paris-charge-suv-drivers-higher-parking-fees-tackle-auto-besity
#Pollution #Cars #SUVs #Storage #Parking #family #AutoBesity #ClimateChange
