[image] Both cars fit the same amount of people
[image] Both cars fit the same amount of people
Honestly this is absurd. These death machines shouldn't be legal in europe. That thing doesn't even fit in the parking space, even though the parking lot has the biggest spaces in the whole city. The Golf Polo is so small in comparison, it could even hide in front of the engine hood of the truck.
EDIT: It's a Polo and not a Golf, I don't know my cars, sorry for that!
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The problem is that when you have a family to protect, you're faced with the choice of going on the road in a tiny car that will not survive a crash with those big vehicles. It's really an "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" mentality.
People should not have to compete in an arms race to get to work
Shouldn't have to, but DO have to.
It's not okay to endanger other people (and other people's families, since that seems to be relevant to you somehow) so that you can reduce the risk of your non-essential activities. Yes, I know you "need" your child killing machine to do some of the things that maintain your wasteful unnecessary lifestyle. But what portion of your trips do those necessities really make up? Are you still going to think it is still worth it after you have splattered some innocent family of poor people who can't afford to keep up with your antisocial practices, when you "had to" drive to the next city because yours doesn't have the good IMAX theater?
You have a choice: keep your kids safe or keep other kids safe. It is an either-or. Could I live with myself if I got into an accident and someone else's kid died? I don't know.
Could I live with myself if I was driving around in one of those teeny, tiny cars, and my kids died after being t-boned by some drunk in an SUV? Absolutely not.
Tanks are on the road. That's reality. If we, through government action change that, great! I won't miss them.
There are other better solutions, have everyone drive small cars or better, not need cars at all.
"Fuck everyone else, I got mine." Why do so many people post apologia and the lies they tell themselves to assuage their shitty choices? Wrong fucking community. We do the opposite here.
I'm not apologizing for anything. I live in a world where, like it or not, people are driving around in tanks. Opting out of that means that I've be driving around with little kids on roads where our tiny car would be crushed in an accident.
Not going to let that happen. I'm not buying a tank, but I'm buying a car big enough that it scores high in crash tests against tanks.
I'm all for systematic change, but pretending we don't already live in the environment we live in is simply denial.
Bigger doesn't mean safer. I used to drive an 06 Corolla. I got rear ended at a stoplight by an SUV going ~40 mph. Their car was totaled. The rear body of my car was kinda mangled, but completely drivable. The driver of the other car broke their wrist and had their airbags deployed. I just got my knuckles a little scraped on my dashboard.
I drive an 08 Corolla these days.
Pickup trucks have worse single-vehicle crash safety. Statistically, the danger of injury and death balances out.
That sounds similar to pro gun logic.
Except that this is evidence based and the gun logic is counter to the evidence.