be a lot more efficient if they transitioned delivery windows to early morning or late evening for the urban centers. Would effectively eliminate 30% of traffic volume during peak periods and open up loading zones for different times of the day for curbside parking.
problems:
1 - drivers don’t want to work at night, for multiple reasons (family life, lower visibility)
2 - businesses don’t want to staff receiving outside of business hours.
in 2010 when the Olympics were here in Vancouver, they closed certain areas of the CBD to vehicle traffic for a month and only allowed permitted companies access during specific windows
I mentioned Gish Gallop in an earlier post. This is now what you are doing.
Today’s American pick ups are significantly bigger than even 10 years ago. Math means they have more and bigger blind spots. That makes them more dangerous than other vehicles, or even trucks of yesteryear, when used for personal commuting.
The value judgement people will make with regards to that will be different. If we make different ones then so be it.
You may have misunderstood my post. It was a peacemaking post!
I acknowledged that for some people large pickups and SUVs are a necessity. And for others it is a vanity thing.
Nothing controversial in that. All entirely true.
But please don’t be a dick!
In case of confusion, I am referring to the “people in your bracket” comment. You know nothing about my means.
I judge people by the content of their character, not the content of their bank balance. You would do well to do likewise.
I don’t drive a Polo but even if I did, so what?! I can drive any car I wish to, but my wife and I prefer to give our money to charity as it is much more rewarding.
We have everything we need and more besides. We tend to buy Hondas. I drive a newer CRV, my wife a new Civic and our teenage daughter an Element (not in the UK market). When our son starts driving in a couple of months the Element will go to him, the Civic to our daughter as a graduation present, the CRV to my wife as she transports our Labradoodle and Bernedoodle dogs, and wants more space for that. I will probably buy a hybrid Accord at that point.
Since it is the climate thread, not the “here’s the car I drive thread” I am concerned about having four vehicles for four people in the one house. That is the life where I live, and public transport is not really an option here.
It’s a really weird feeling to have a philopshy on something (like 4 cars being too many for 1 household) and then find the infrastructure set up in a way that forces you into decisions you’d otherwise not make.
I bought my current house in 2010. I chose where I did, because this particular part of Orlando felt a bit more European by being unusually walkable. The idea was it allowed me to largely be car free on weekends. In the years since the city has changed and grown. While most of that is good one effect is it has stretched and expanded the “downtown area”. Common places I might want to go are no longer walkable in distance, but are bikable. Especially with E bikes. But fuck me…our roads. You just cannot do it and expect anything approaching safety. It means Im stuck going somewhere “local” to meet friends for dinner and still having to take an Uber. And I hate it. It just feels the city planning ethos here is just broken.
you’re full of shit. I gave you actual measurements. the difference between a 1990 Ford F350 and a 2022 Ford F350 is a remarkably small amount, about 10cm in length. The wheelbase is actually smaller (20cm) on the newer unit because they figured out it makes for a smaller turning radius.
Somehow how your inability to operate a larger vehicle without fear, manifests in your mind to argue that those vehicles are inherently dangerous to operate. They’re not.
Only in the hands of those who don’t understand how to drive, whether it be a lack of skill behind the wheel or a lack of experience, or poor depth perception, or whatever the reason. Doesn’t really matter to me. If you don’t like them, don’t drive them.
The only thing I’ve not yet driven is a LCV.
come visit Canada (eh?) when we get 16" of snow in a night and the average FWD car becomes a snow plow with it’s 5" of ground clearance. You just argued that a surgeon doesn’t need a SUV to make emergency runs to the hospital in winter. When someone’s life may be in the balance of his ability to make that trip.
I’m really starting to wonder about your thought process.
Wasn’t being a dick, just countering that neither you or I know whether an individual decides a large car is a necessity. If someone we dont know decides it’s necessary for them to have a monster truck, who are we to question it.
On the assumption it isn’t, then neither surely would be a mid size saloon, so we should all just use small hatchbacks
Well thank you. What you gave me were stats on a specific model. That isn’t how you interpret data. That is called cherry picking and if you look at the aggregate data of cars actually in production and on the roads, data I shared, the evidence is clear. Its kind of bizarre that something that is clear and openly discussed by car companies as a customer demand driven trend is something you are denying. You might not understand my thought process, but trust me it is mutual.
As for the rest, you are projecting massively. Hating something is not the same as being scared by it. What you are interpreting as fear is instead just rational response to objective reality. To math. And so as for me not driving, I absolutely wont, but it is not about what I want to drive. It is about, as someone who has to share roads with these vehicles, objecting to the proliferation of a class of vehicles that inarguably make us collectively less safe and that exist largely for vanity.
that’s your opinion, and you’re welcome to it. Being in Florida, your vehicular needs and opinions are vastly different than someone who lives on the edge of wilderness like I do.
I bought my Santa Fe used in 2017, and was told in 2018 that Canada was going to start selling the turbo diesel model in a year or two. it was actually announced in a news release. But it never happened.
that article mentions competition with the Mazda CX-5 diesel, which I would love to buy as well (I had a Protege5 for 12 yrs)…but that’s not being made either
In America, I would buy a huge ass powerful car because of instances where I might need to run over murdererous hitchhikers or to outrun murderous inbreds when I make a wrong turn or when the mothman is pursuing me.
While I know it’s a pee take, here is the oddity of it all. Many US cars are no more powerful than a smaller engined European counterpart. These large displacement engines have been detuned so far I suspect their efficiency is shocking. Sound nice though. I’m sure you’d still be safe from Trump on a European model.
There is a bit of torque argument thingy but I still don’t think it stands up to close scrutiny.
There’s also two other side’s to this whole vehicle debate. First is car durability. Car manufacturers have twigged on to the idea of a “service life”. @Semmy mentioned it above I think. Keeps a nice supply of new cars on the road I guess and a steady flow of new tech onto the market but I doubt the numbers stack up.
Other side is, do we actually need cars with 200bhp and capable of over 120mph (200kph)? I guess they’d all be boring otherwise but from a climate perspective…
Probably a reason for buying bigger capacity cars is that they can load up alot of gas for long journeys which many Americans would take? I can imagine like if you are trying to drive in the states and you are on a 30L tank like I have in Singapore and you would be desperate to find gas very often in isolated parts of the country?
I think they are referring to engine capacity rather than fuel tank capacity. The two are related anyway as range is measured in km not litres (or miles not gallons for US buyers).
