Children steamrollers do not belong in cities.
Edit: Can you think of a better backronym for SUVs? Street Unsafe Vehicle? Super Unsafe Vision? Severely Unsafe Vehicle? Striking Unsuspecting Vulnerables?
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2023
280 points (98.3% liked)
Fuck Cars
9672 readers
14 users here now
This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.
This community exists for the following reasons:
- to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
- to allow a place to discuss and promote more healthy transport methods and ways of living.
You can find the Matrix chat room for this community here.
Rules
-
Be nice to each other. Being aggressive or inflammatory towards other users will get you banned. Name calling or obvious trolling falls under that. Hate cars, hate the system, but not people. While some drivers definitely deserve some hate, most of them didn't choose car-centric life out of free will.
-
No bigotry or hate. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, chauvinism, fat-shaming, body-shaming, stigmatization of people experiencing homeless or substance users, etc. are not tolerated. Don't use slurs. You can laugh at someone's fragile masculinity without associating it with their body. The correlation between car-culture and body weight is not an excuse for fat-shaming.
-
Stay on-topic. Submissions should be on-topic to the externalities of car culture in urban development and communities globally. Posting about alternatives to cars and car culture is fine. Don't post literal car fucking.
-
No traffic violence. Do not post depictions of traffic violence. NSFW or NSFL posts are not allowed. Gawking at crashes is not allowed. Be respectful to people who are a victim of traffic violence or otherwise traumatized by it. News articles about crashes and statistics about traffic violence are allowed. Glorifying traffic violence will get you banned.
-
No reposts. Before sharing, check if your post isn't a repost. Reposts that add something new are fine. Reposts that are sharing content from somewhere else are fine too.
-
No misinformation. Masks and vaccines save lives during a pandemic, climate change is real and anthropogenic - and denial of these and other established facts will get you banned. False or highly speculative titles will get your post deleted.
-
No harassment. Posts that (may) cause harassment, dogpiling or brigading, intentionally or not, will be removed. Please do not post screenshots containing uncensored usernames. Actual harassment, dogpiling or brigading is a bannable offence.
Please report posts and comments that violate our rules.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Sextremely Unnecessary Vehicularmanslaughtermachine
Simply unnecessary vehicle
Whatever it is, it will be more accurate that Sport Utility Vehicle for which it fails at all 3.
Please please please do this in London. I'm sick of all the completely unnecessarily giant cars around here.
Brilliant!
Based
This is the best summary I could come up with:
This included increasing the number of pedestrian crossings, 20mph zones and driver awareness events for young newly-qualified motorists.
"Now it may be appropriate for a farmer in Fife to have a Land Rover, but it's not appropriate for a banker in Bruntsfield - if they don't also own a farm up in the Highlands - it's not appropriate for them to have a massive great gas guzzler," Cllr Booth added.
In recent months Edinburgh SUV owners have been targeted by environmental activists, who said they intended to make it "impossible" to own one in the city.
Cllr Munro, who is a local councillor for Bruntsfield, said: "Somebody's job and how hard they work and what they choose to spend their money on is entirely down to them; that's their house, their vehicles, that's where they shop.
Agreed unanimously by councillors, it called for the next road safety report coming forward in March to "explore the feasibility of steps to discourage or restrict larger and heavier vehicles in the city".
Cllr Booth said pedestrian deaths in the US were at their highest level for the last 40 years and cited research from Belgium which found larger vehicles are more likely to have blind spots.
The original article contains 504 words, the summary contains 200 words. Saved 60%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Those Belgian researchers must be some foxes to develop such a theory!
@mondoman712 Good ,they need banning from the rental market too ,they are too big and too powerful for idiots to rent for driving along narrow country roads .I also think campervans need restrictions and a separate driving test some are huge yet you can drive them with just a normal driving licence ,people leave their tiny city car parked up and get into one of the campervans and have no idea how to drive safely in them
I live near Edinburgh, this sounds fuckin sick lol
Scare quotes around "gas-guzzling" 
Saying "planet-burning" instead 
These small steps are important progress
Edinburgh resident here, just a fact not that it makes my opinion more valid. Really feel this will not stick and is just the councillors making statements to get us on side. It should not be down to city councils to even attempt to intervene on this. The industry should make smaller cars. There is also an obvious joke here for those defending SUVs in Edinburgh, the roads are so filled with pot holes, its like driving on a farm track. A pot hole literally snapped the axle on my (albeit very old) bike once.