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[–] hellothere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 58 minutes ago

Cunts who purchase cunt cars don't care about others. More at 11.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 19 minutes ago)

The risk to pedestrians is a bonus to the average motorist.

[–] BlackVenom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Wait did someone think people buy cars with others in mind? (Noting that "impressing" others is for the self, not the others)

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How is the financial penalty of them costing a shitload more to buy and run not enough, why do people want these?

[–] Mojitas@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

What features did you need that couldn't be offered in a sedan or small hatchback?

[–] teft@piefed.social 1 points 33 minutes ago

Any who lives in snowy conditions could want the additional ground clearance or weight for traction.

[–] Mojitas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 59 minutes ago)

Why do you want a plug in hybrid? Haven’t they been shown to be useless for the climate?!

[–] kubica@fedia.io 34 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If only there existed some coordinated organization on a national level that could create laws to ensure the safety of pedestrians.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca -2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

You do realise the government can just ban cars above a certain size anytime they want right? Like I can't buy a tank and drive it down the road, 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. Sometimes talking apes are far too stupid to allow their non-existent critical thought to self-regulate their actions.

[–] tensorpudding@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago)

I guarantee that most of the apes buying emotional support vehicles do not think or care about the world outside their idiot brains.