I do agree with @notjustbikes, tho sadly depending on the juristiction, cities can't really do much - if anything - about #SuperUselessVehicles, either because that's outside of their juristiction [i.e. taxes and insurance in Germany] or because it's not part of the law [i.e. Driving Licenses in the EU don't distinguish between commercial and personal use]...
If you're in the US and you've also been idly wondering why "I don't like to drive at night" has become such a common thing to say in the past few years, stand near to a modern LED streetlamp and block it with your hand. In about two thirds of a second, the whole road brightens up as your pupils open.
You're not just getting old; between over-bright streetlights, over-bright headlights of oncoming cars, over-bright instrument clusters, over-bright porch lighting, nobody can see in the dark anymore.
Just in the last decade we've made it much harder and more dangerous to drive at night. Oh, and we also gave up the stars.
@ifixcoinops Not to mention the amount of assholes with misconfigured headlights set way too high and even bigger wankers with #SuperUselessVehicles using highbeams even when they are literally sniffing one's exhaust...
Because sociopaths are that way...
And yes,LED lights are worse than sodium lamps in every metric!!!
@DrTCombs That's just absurd, and the fact that the #NHTSA does not demand #CrashCoimpatibility with every kind of traffic participant is outrageous...
The few #PickUp|s I saw were almost exclusively used by some contractors i.e. Gardeners who use them to haul some bags of dirt, Sand, Gravel or bushes and hedges to customers and throw dirty shovels on...
Looking at social media rn and I keep seeing articles about: ever larger, ever more-expensive cars, SUVs and trucks out-selling smaller vehicles, rants calling for the abolition of public transport, hate campaigns directed at cyclists, an insistence that driving is the ONLY valid form of transport—
The car industry is panicking. End of fossil fuel burners plus €10,000 for a car-sized battery pack equals end of a viable motoring economy (cheap second-hand cars can't exist in an EV future).
Wieder eine schwer verletzte Radfahrerin in #Bonn, die nach der Kollision mit einem Auto "noch einige Meter mitgeschleift" wurde. Die Frequenz solcher Meldungen nimmt stetig zu. Morgen ist #CriticalMass. Zeit, mal wieder daran teilzunehmen.
Also not LED Headlights are the problem, but misaligned Lights designed to flash and blind other traffic participants and #SuperUselessVehicles that are just #MotorizedViolence...
@pezmico Also in terms of total CO² emissions and envoirmental impact both the current electrical mix [in Germany] and the production of #Lithium-#Cobalt#Batteries are potentially even far worse unless they last >250.000km.
Also there are no cheap electric cars for the same reason.
Decarbonising road transport - Lighter vehicles make a big difference
"Currently, a large diesel SUV typically emits a kilogram of CO₂ for every 3 kilometres of driving, compared to 15km for a light electric vehicle and 200 kilometres for an e-bike. An average electric vehicle currently emits 1kg of CO₂ every 7km."
"Australia is on track to miss the net-zero target for 2050 mainly because of the large proportions of fossil-fuelled vehicles and large and heavy passenger vehicles."
Besides encouraging to walk, bike or use #PublicTransport, we need a counter-movement to the masses of #SuperUselessVehicles that clog up streets and are obscenely inefficient in terms of space and utilization.
Ahahaha SUV owners think they can drive through floods
Sure, until they suddenly find out that their intake is too low and they hydrolock the engine, then also discover that it doesn't take very much water to raise even the largest metal middle finger and cast it downstream.
None of those have a snorkel nor sufficient wading depth and water-tightness to be able to cross even most tranquil streams - much less storm floods full of debris & mud.