When I saw the title I thought it was about obesity caused by driving everywhere instead of walking.
Of course they turn this into a plus for the "clean energy transition" and not into promoting fewer vehicles in the road
Or even vehicles that are just the right size for their intended use.
For the last month, I've been driving my project car to work - it's a weird little 4x4 from the 1980s. It has a 1300 cc engine which pushes it down the road just fine, in fact I'm often having to wait on people with much faster cars to get out of the way.
What's crazy about it is just how easy it is to navigate around traffic, or in parking lots. It's so small. It's like half the length of a crew cab F150. It's 16"/400mm shorter and 5"/127mm narrower than a Mitsubishi Mirage. It doesn't matter which way the parking spot is pointed, I can turn right into it. Parallel parking? It's a non-issue, doesn't matter if you pull in or back in. Narrow streets are no problem. Tires take forever to wear out, because it has truck tires on it but it weighs abiut 1/3 what a truck does.
While I'd rather have the ability to take a bus or train to work, it's going to be a while before that happens, it would be cool if we could at least drive to work without carrying 5,000 pounds of metal and plastic with us.
Sounds like a pretty cool project car IMO
The world won't be satisfied until we are all driving tanks and live in air controlled domes because we have destroyed the atmosphere.
I know this article is from a UK news outlet, but I think it’s interesting that the SUV they used in the headline photo would be considered a small SUV by American standards.
A telluride is considered mid size in the US, and that looks like it would not fit on a single japanese road
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Thank you for the NSFW tag. I threw up in my mouth a little.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A US study showed that children were eight times more likely to die when struck by an SUV compared with a normal passenger car.
Dr William Hicks and his team, from Imperial College London, have created a computer simulator to study air pollution from brakes.
The brakes in the large SUV had to work twice as hard as those in the small compact car, resulting in greater particle pollution.
This could be encouraged through traffic calming measures (20 mph speed limits should help), media campaigns and driver awareness courses.”
Prof Roy Harrison, from the University of Brimingham, who was not involved in the computer simulation study, said: “The results give new insights into the influence of vehicle weight and driving style upon regenerative braking in electric and hybrid vehicles, and the associated particle emissions reductions.
“They show that regenerative braking can lead to substantial benefits, but should not be used to detract from the effort to develop engineering solutions to this important emission source.”
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