Pretty sure they are all for some reason in london.
These huge cars don't belong on our streets.
I really don't get why people like to buy such huge gas guzzlers and somehow those are the people I hear complain about gas prices the most
We should really just have EU law that over a certain size requires a new license that isn't automatically given to people that have one now.
We should really just have EU law
About that...
Well yes I maybe did not notice this was a UK community 😅
We should really just have EU law that over a certain size requires a new license that isn’t automatically given to people that have one now.
Ignoring the brexit crap and assuming you ment EU and UK laws.
I don't think that would help. If we had a new licence class. It would just mean people need to do more tests to drive it.
Unfortunately licence structure have no when needed requirements. Just the qualification.
A suggested solution would be a road access class. If vehicles over a certain size (lets just say width. ) had a significant number of roads and villages they were only allowed in for blue badge holders or loading and unloading. No parking.
For most owners the impractical living with such vehicles would only be tolerable when they have a second transport and a safe storage area that dosent ban parking.
May also be worth adding a new wheelchair only blue badge class. But that may miss some disabled that genuinly need the extra width im not thinking of. So would need some seriose consideration.
Having rules that disabled people (or people driving them) get exceptions is something I'd take as a given within EU countries (UK still has EU values mostly so they're included when I say EU)
The main issue we need to solve is the 9 to 5 people who could go to work with a fiat 500 instead taking a Ford F150 because 🤏 instead of any practical reason.
Higher cars are generally very unsafe for pedestrians AND people driving smaller cars (which encourages those people to also buy bigger cars) while also being less safe for the people in them (main reason people but them is cause they "feel more safe")
It'd be environmentally and socially better to have smaller cars.
A lot of EU laws still apply to Northern Ireland anyway, so in most cases, EU standards and attitudes get applied to the UK anyway. Like the iPhone changes.
Those exemption do not currently apply to actual licence to vechle type allocation.
I do not know about the rest of the EU. But in the UK no class of car only applies to disabled users or actual road access law.
If I live on a no vechle access road. Being disabled would not allow me to drive a car to my doorstep.
Same goes for any limitation in the site or weight of vehicles.
My licence (no longer valid as I now have a disability that bans me from driving.) Was an old one that allows me to drive 3,5t trucks. Newer licences do not let younger drivers do so without passing a different test.
This is the closest we have ever come to adding a new restriction on the type of car you cab drive. No extra specification for disability has ever existed for the changes you propose. Hence why I included this need to reconsider so Ugh things in my suggestion.
As for the rest of your response. The comment you responded to was trying to address that exact situation,
People with several kids, disabled people, etc.
These huge cars don't seat more people than regular cars. They're huge for aesthetic reasons only. Estate cars are just slightly longer- but length isn't the problem. It's width and height.
A car that houses 5 people does not need to almost be as wide as a bus, we have compact cars that can handle 5 people.
As for disabled people those can also mostly be transported by a normal car (with some modifications) or a small bus, they don't need a Ford F150 size car for that
I saw a Rolls Royce Chelsea tractor (proper footballer's wives material - probably waa) the other day that was doing the school run. Money really can't buy taste.
We should ban them because they are bad for people and the environment but also because they are naff.
They really do look very tacky.
I was stuck in Preston Hostpital car park a while ago as I had to wait for someone to try and squeeze their Range Rover into a parking spot that wasn't designed for such a huge vehicle. It was equally hillarious and frustrating.
Parking garages should really start imposing width limits the same way they do height limits.
I've seen them parking in spots labeled Compacts Only and making it so the person next to them has to get in on the passenger's side.
Adjust Vehicle Excise Duty to something that also taxes vehicles based on their size and weight, it'll discourage larger vehicles, hopefully.
Tiny peepee Murika-mobiles...
Yank tanks
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