WTF is wrong with Toyota making #wankpanzers? i thought they were supposed to be the company of small and efficient vehicles. even their trucks were supposed to be compact and efficient. that Tacoma thing is horrid.
Yup. And the solution is so simple. Ban SUVs. Ban auto adverts. All of them. We need societal change. Whatever the problem is, more and bigger cars are not the solution.
Today we went to visit a solar cycle/foot-path in Groningen. Solar road surfaces are of course completely idiotic. Why ? Because solar cells work best when they're not in shade, when they're not covered in thick translucent plastic, when there are no pebbles, sand or cigarette butts on them, and when they are at an angle towards the sun which also allows the rain to wash them.
But anyway, it was an arbitrary local destination for us on today's 70 km round trip. @eevblog #velomobile#regel17#solarroad#solarcyclepath#groningen#cycling#scandalouswasteofresources
@enobacon In addition, anyone cycling isn't using the much more expensive infrastructure built for cars, so we don't need as much of it and it doesn't wear out so quickly. With 27% of journeys made by bike that's a significant saving.
But we have too many carrots for drivers. Driving here is incredibly easy. The roads are magnificent. There are no holes because of the absurdly high level of maintenance, the signage is excellent, junctions are well designed etc.
At this point I just don't think there are any nudges at all which make drivers think about cycling. So they drive more and more every year, and they buy more and bigger cars to make those journeys.
It's quite sad to see, as I did this morning, someone drive a Ford F150 to a local shopping centre to buy a loaf of bread. This was not an out of town shop but one built in the middle of a housing development with a catchment area of no more than 2 km because every housing development has something similar.
But there's nothing to stop people from doing that.
Those cars weren't seen at all in NL ten years ago. They seem to have grown enormously in popularity since Trump's brain fart about Europeans not buying enough American cars. So that's another reason to dislike the criminal ex-president. @lennartnout@Marrekoo@djasa
It's also too wide for the parking space. And of course you can see how it's much larger than other cars. These things present a serious danger and really should be banned or taxed out of existence. For some reason these #wankpanzers always seem to be fitted with undersized number plates in the American style. Clearly something to do with the vanity of their owners as there's obviously space there for a normally sized number plate. These small number plates must surely be illegal.
"From 1 January 2024, SUV owners can expect to pay higher fees to park in the French capital...There are no dirt paths , no mountain roads … SUVs are absolutely useless in Paris. Worse, they are dangerous, cumbersome and use too many resources to manufacture"
"They are about 20% on average more polluting than a regular car. If I had one thing I could do, it would be to stop selling them." - Prof Brian Caulfield, TCD