"Important public safety announcement: stop buying enormous cars! Please, for the love of God, pedestrians and my tiny chihuahua that is just trying to cross the road, stop this cycle of car-brained insanity"
#CarBrain #TallaghtTractor #CarBloat #Stupo
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/please-for-the-love-of-god-stop-buying-supersized-cars
The deadly 3,000kg car bloat trend
Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier
"Also in recent years, Australia has spectacularly failed at its mission of bringing down road deaths and serious injuries. Speed – and their proclivity to be driven faster – and overall height make larger vehicles far more likely to kill or cause serious injury when hitting pedestrians, cyclists, motorbikes and smaller cars."
"Newstead warns how this mentality can lead to an arms race to larger cars for those wanting to bolster their own safety. Crucially, if a driver can’t make eye contact with a pedestrians, “they are going to drive as though they aren’t there”"
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/13/australian-suv-huge-ute-obsession-roads-more-dangerous
#vehicles #cars #SUVs #speeding #RoadViolence #drivers #pedestrians #CarBloat #CarMinds #cyclists #families #SchoolDropOffs #SacrificeZone #MobilityDesign #failure #FossilFuel #climate #regulation
@Kotaku @kotaku-latest-Kotaku
Yeah but buying a Jeep is how you make everyone's future suck. So don't they deserve it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
“We need to think about big cars in the same way that we think about cigarettes: Affecting not just the user, but everyone around the user.”
Large SUVs are popular, but they kill pedestrians and people in smaller cars. What will it take for Americans to give them up? | Vox
Gigantic #SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/391733/gigantic-suvs-are-a-public-health-threat-why-dont-we-treat-them-like-one
The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.
#CarBloat #Risk #Safety #Pedestrians #SmallCars
“We tend to treat the car as a closed thing, ignoring its impact on the environment, the climate, and the pedestrian”
Family holidays in the 1960s/70s, long before car bloat. Throw the kids in the back of the Triumph Herald station wagon and put the luggage on the roof rack - plenty of room! This was a pretty typical family car back in the day. No special child seats then of course.
(Apologies for the poor quality photo - it's from a small proof sheet.)
#CarBloat
