Link of the Day [8.13.23]
Kottke points us to a Mastodon thread explaining why the huge size of cars (and trucks) is a bad thing.
Maybe it’s just a problem in the United States.
I was just in Europe and rented a car which would be compact in the States. It had 4 doors and fit 5 tightly. There’s a trunk and fit our luggage. It was probably smaller than my Mini Cooper.
And there was an even smaller option.
Most every one in Europe was smallish compared to the US. Small to fit the small streets of many of the towns and cities. The city streets were sized for these smaller cars. Human sized.
But anyhow, our cars are getting too big which leads to many bad things. It ruins roads quicker. It kills harder. It costs more. And somehow, we’re gonna run out of room for them: road widths, parking space widths, home widths. Just not human sized.
https://kottke.org/23/08/car-bloat-huge-cars-are-terrible-for-society
