SUVs make up more than 40% of new cars sold in the UK – while fully electric vehicles account for less than 2%

[Leafster]

This is from Wagrowiec, Poland a couple days ago.



The driver just drove off as they didn't realise they'd run over the kid. Miraculously, the child is OK.

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www.portalwrc.pl

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

But… but…

“The elevated driving position gives me a good view of the road”

 

[hash tag]

Fucking SUVs

Range-Rover slams into London bus stop, as nine people rushed to hospital with injuries and one arrested

Nine people have been rushed to hospital after a Range-Rover swerved off the road in central London before hitting a bus stop.

www.lbc.co.uk

Under normal circumstances, it is the driver not the car which causes this to happen. I note the driver has been arrested.

 

[Rob Ray]

You can see the head height of the child compared to the height of the vehicle bonnet though, right? One mainstay method of making sure an inattentive driver doesn't do something stupid is to make it harder for them not to notice things.

 

[editor]

Under normal circumstances, it is the driver not the car which causes this to happen. I note the driver has been arrested.

The point being that if the twat wasn't in charge of such a ludicrously over-engineered and oversized tank, it's highly likely that fewer people would have been endangered.

 

[hash tag]

The point being that if the twat wasn't in charge of such a ludicrously over-engineered and oversized tank, it's highly likely that fewer people would have been endangered.

Or, if the twat had not been driving.

 

[editor]

Or, if the twat had not been driving.

Fuck him and fuck those ridiculous, ugly, polluting and dangerous SUVs.

 

[Chz]

The point being that if the twat wasn't in charge of such a ludicrously over-engineered and oversized tank, it's highly likely that fewer people would have been endangered.

Citation needed. You're fixated on circumstance, rather than the actual problem. If the driver had been in a Smart Car, it's guaranteed people would still be in hospital. Any motor vehicle weighs over a tonne and does very nasty things to human bodies when the driver is speeding. Past a certain speed, the weight of the car is almost irrelevant - it's all fatal to anyone in the way. Careless drivers are a much bigger problem than any SUV on the road, and the courts regularly let them off with minimal consequence. "Oh but boo hoo your honour, I need my car for my livelihood!" Tough shit, should have thought of that before driving 45 on a central London road. People get suspended sentences and their license back for killing people because hey, they were only speeding without due care. It's an "accident".

I get that giant cars are a problem, but in this case it's an aggravating factor at best. I'm totally on board for average speed cameras everywhere and a 20 limit anywhere built up.

 

[editor]

Citation needed. You're fixated on circumstance, rather than the actual problem. If the driver had been in a Smart Car, it's guaranteed people would still be in hospital. Any motor vehicle weighs over a tonne and does very nasty things to human bodies when the driver is speeding. Past a certain speed, the weight of the car is almost irrelevant - it's all fatal to anyone in the way. Careless drivers are a much bigger problem than any SUV on the road, and the courts regularly let them off with minimal consequence. "Oh but boo hoo your honour, I need my car for my livelihood!" Tough shit, should have thought of that before driving 45 on a central London road. People get suspended sentences and their license back for killing people because hey, they were only speeding without due care. It's an "accident".

I get that giant cars are a problem, but in this case it's an aggravating factor at best. I'm totally on board for average speed cameras everywhere and a 20 limit anywhere built up.

Is a bigger and heavier mass likely to cause more damage than a lighter and smaller mass?

 

[kebabking]

Is a bigger and heavier mass likely to cause more damage than a lighter and smaller mass?

It doesn't matter, once you get past the mass that will almost certainly kill - it's like differentiating between being shot by 10 bullets or a hundred - you were dead at 5, so the rest is just irrelevant.

Being hit by a 1500kg car at 20 is more survivable than being hit by a 750kg at 30. Getting speed down, where cars and people share the same space, is far for important for both reducing the number and severity of accidents, than reducing the size of cars - and no, before you go all puce, that doesn't mean that reducing the number of ridiculous wagons like the big US pick-ups wouldn't be a bad thing - they are a menace to everyone else around them, irrespective of the emmisions.

Separation, speed down, far better infrastructure and street design for pedestrians - and if you want to stick a £15k a year road tax on a Ram pickup for Mrs Bottomley of Highgate, crack on - but don't think that it'll have much impact of the number of accidents or their severity.

 

[Rob Ray]

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[Kid_Eternity]

100's of tyres let down in Bristol over the weekend. Ad-blocker advised for the website.

Tyres deflated on more than 100 SUVs and 4x4s in Bristol overnight

The group say they are young people who know it will 'cause extreme frustration and resentment' but they are 'left with no other option'

www.google.com

If there’s one thing almost guaranteed to ensure those suv owners don’t change it’s this.

 

[Orang Utan]

If there’s one thing almost guaranteed to ensure those suv owners don’t change it’s this.

A keying is a better deterrent

 

[Kid_Eternity]

A keying is a better deterrent

I remember when we got our current car (Vauxhall Astra) in 2017, first we’d ever bought brand new, and some cunt keyed within 48 hours. I don’t do violence but that day I would have been strongly tempted to kick several shades of shit out of them had I caught them in the act…

 

[klang]

I remember when we got our current car (Vauxhall Astra) in 2017, first we’d ever bought brand new, and some cunt keyed within 48 hours. I don’t do violence but that day I would have been strongly tempted to kick several shades of shit out of them had I caught them in the act…

take it inside your house with you then.

 

[Orang Utan]

People who leave stuff in the street are asking for it to be smashed up if it’s in someone’s way

 

[hash tag]

People who leave stuff in the street are asking for it to be smashed up if it’s in someone’s way

like dumped electric bikes and scooters.

 

[klang]

People who leave stuff in the street are asking for it to be smashed up if it’s in someone’s way

tbf, I wish people would show a bit more respect towards other people's stuff, be a bit less destroy-y and keep things a bit nicer. But cars are very very low down my sympathy list as it stands.

 

[Silas Loom]

I remember when we got our current car (Vauxhall Astra) in 2017, first we’d ever bought brand new, and some cunt keyed within 48 hours. I don’t do violence but that day I would have been strongly tempted to kick several shades of shit out of them had I caught them in the act…

Had your boss urged a disaffected boxer to throw a fight?

https://www.polygon.com/2015/3/13/8210453/this-is-the-man-who-keyed-vincent-vegas-car-in-pulp-fiction#:~:text=It%20turns%20out%2C%20we%20have,character%20who%20keyed%20Vega's%20car.

 

[Orang Utan]

like dumped electric bikes and scooters.

And dumped cars which take up even more room.

 

[hash tag]

And dumped cars which take up even more room.

Dumped cars don't normally present a hazard on pavements, only in the roads.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Dumped cars don't normally present a hazard on pavements, only in the roads.

Unless you’re visually impaired. Or in a wheelchair. Or pushing a pram.

Fuck cars on pavements. We should all kick the fuck out of them as a civic duty.

 

[hash tag]

Unless you’re visually impaired. Or in a wheelchair. Or pushing a pram.

Fuck cars on pavements. We should all kick the fuck out of them as a civic duty.

Sure you can bump into a car but you can go flying over a bike resulting in considerable injury.

 

[editor]

Dumped cars don't normally present a hazard on pavements, only in the roads.

Unless you're trying to push a pram between them to cross the road. And assuming that they're not parked all over the pavement anyway, like they do outside my block every night,

I'd like it if a huge saw wheel was invented that went along the line of the pavement slicing and dicing the parts of cars that had been selfishly parked on to the pedestrians' space.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

take it inside your house with you then.

Eh? It was parked outside my in-laws. It’s a shitty thing to do.

 

[Mr Retro]

I remember when we got our current car (Vauxhall Astra) in 2017, first we’d ever bought brand new, and some cunt keyed within 48 hours. I don’t do violence but that day I would have been strongly tempted to kick several shades of shit out of them had I caught them in the act…

You would have been justified to do so

 

[Mr Retro]

As Vincent says in Pulp Fiction - What's more chickenshit than fucking with a man's automobile? I mean don't fuck with another man's vehicle.

 

[Orang Utan]

Dumped cars don't normally present a hazard on pavements, only in the roads.

Yes they fucking do

 

[Orang Utan]

As Vincent says in Pulp Fiction - What's more chickenshit than fucking with a man's automobile? I mean don't fuck with another man's vehicle.

And he was a stupid drug addict and incompetent hitman who died on the toilet.
Park like a twat = get keyed

 

[klang]

Eh? It was parked outside my in-laws. It’s a shitty thing to do.

A scratch on a car does not merit physical violence.