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It’s time for Americans to embrace small cars (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yep. There’s a fuck-ton of power in implementing a proper road tax structure. It should also factor in the increased likelihood to cause harm to other people and damage to other vehicles. Hell, traffic infractions should also be more serious in a larger vehicle. All easy to implement and completely reasonable.

It’s sickening that over 42,000 people (more than 110 people PER DAY) were killed by vehicles in the US in 2022. This is a public health crisis that’s rarely discussed.

I’m not saying that’s all caused by big vehicles, but there’s undeniably more risk when larger vehicles are roaming the roads. And the ever-increasing blind spots of these big vehicles mixed with the irresponsible driving behavior is a recipe for disaster.

https://www.ghsa.org/resources/news-releases/NHTSA-2022-Traffic-Deaths23