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submitted 2 years ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

The cause was easy enough to identify: Data parsed by Kuhls and her colleagues showed that drivers were speeding more, on highways and on surface streets, and plowing through intersections with an alarming frequency. Conversely, seatbelt use was down, resulting in thousands of injuries to unrestrained drivers and passengers. After a decade of steady decline, intoxicated-driving arrests had rebounded to near historic highs.

... The relationship between car size and injury rates is still being studied, but early research on the American appetite for horizon-blotting machinery points in precisely the direction you’d expect: The bigger the vehicle, the less visibility it affords, and the more destruction it can wreak.

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[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 27 points 2 years ago

You don't need to make the cars bigger to meet fuel economy requirements; it's a decision by vehicle makers to make them bigger rather than take advantage of the more efficient engine designs available to produce a vehicle which uses less fuel.

[-] vividspecter@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago

It's partly that, but the other aspect is the absurd "light truck" exemption where SUVs and pickup trucks have less stringent emissions standards. So there is less incentive to go the downsizing route, and instead make bigger and bigger cars because if you're a car company, you make more money per vehicle this way.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 3 points 2 years ago

I'll burn this bitch to the ground before I drive a 4-cylinder.

[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 points 2 years ago

If killing every goddamn mammal on this planet and letting the octopi take over is the price we pay for liberty, so be it.

[-] fenynro@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

In case you forgot, we're mammals too. The only freedom you're rushing towards is the freedom of death, but at least we get big vroom vroom sound make happy on the way

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 2 years ago

You can stop trying to sell me on it, I'm already on board!

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

That's probably the most pathetic thing I've read on Lemmy so far. Kudos on sharing, I guess - I wouldn't humiliate myself in public this way for sure.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 2 years ago

Sounds like something a virus would say

[-] pearable@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Everyone else was making the same joke, why did you get the downvotes?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 points 2 years ago

Because this sub is an outrage factory with notoriously bad sarcasm detection lol

[-] curiousPJ@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

notoriously bad sarcasm detection

Ahh first day on an Internet forum eh. There there.

Poe's law.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 2 years ago

Sure bud. Whatever makes you feel better.

[-] littletranspunk@lemmus.org 6 points 2 years ago

You know oil companies aren't going to thank you personally.... right?

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Is this some naturally-aspirated thing I'm too turbo to understand?

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'll take a car with an inline 4 and a stick over the majority of other vehicles.

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