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Motor emissions could have fallen by over 30% without SUV trend, report says
(www.theguardian.com)
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Not surprising since car manufacturers lobbied to get them classed as light trucks to dodge the stricter emissions and safety regulations that apply to general cars. Then marketed the hell out of them as there is more profit to be made due to them not needing to comply with as many regulations. And now they are everywhere and are way worst than cars in almost every way.
Funny how yet again the capitalist class chooses profits over any other metric leading to s shittier world overall. Almost like there is a pattern happening in every industry...
This guy does lots of videos relating to government and public roads.
This video sheds interesting light on the piece of the problem you've identified. It's also the reason for a massive increase in pedestrian deaths. Seems like cars got bigger to circumvent a law enacted in an attempted to cut auto emissions, but had several adverse consequences.
https://youtu.be/fEj-pyjA2oo?si=J5utF5B0y7zqpK1H
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Love ‘Road Guy Rob’. He has a lot of great simple videos on traffic design and oddities
There's a reason I don't watch tv news aside from the poor journalism, and it is this exact sensory assault format he replicates from them.