Wait did someone think people buy cars with others in mind? (Noting that "impressing" others is for the self, not the others)
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
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If only there existed some coordinated organization on a national level that could create laws to ensure the safety of pedestrians.
There does, and it does, but that doesn't really seem to be the point to me. This is very much a "loud exhausts correlate to dark triad personality traits" kind of story. Or perhaps more like how everyone knows they participate in actual atrocity and torture against vulnerable individuals but just keep buying their corpses.
You do realise the government can just ban cars above a certain size anytime they want right? Like I can't buy a tank, or a car that is wider than the size of a lane. All they have to do is adjust the limits to weed out the dangerous and inefficient models.
The implication is that the buyer is a bad driver, which most people would think is someone else since they are actually a good driver. The Dunning-Kruger effect applies here.
How is the financial penalty of them costing a shitload more to buy and run not enough, why do people want these?
I think a lot of people don't want them. But in my case there wasn't any normal car that had the features I wanted. I'd rather not need it but I really do if I'm gonna be able to work full time.
What features did you need that couldn't be offered in a sedan or small hatchback?
I wanted a car that was relatively quiet and a plug in hybrid. Not a big list of demands by far.
But so many of the PHEVs are SUVs nowadays.