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Cycle to work every day, 3 miles one way, I know in my bones from repeated experiences that the bigger the vehicle, the less likely they see you
That one picture of even front-end visibility always stuck with me. It's something stupid like 15 kids in a line and the driver can't see them. You could drive into a classroom worth of children and not see it.
If it's the same one I'm thinking of, a couple/few of the biggest trucks have less visibility than an M1-A1 Abrams TANK......
To be fair I'm pretty sure Abrams (and most other modern western tanks) have really good driver's/commander's sights compared to any vehicle at all
I'm talking the old version that didn't have the fancy helmets to see through the tank. The commander may have some good sights, but the drivers didn't.
Oh, gotcha
I had a guy in a pickup drive right into my 8ft long trailer when I as stopped at a light. He pulled up to me while I was stopped fine, but then he couldn't see my trailer and 30 seconds later started rolling forward while the light was still red and hit it. I was very annoyed and when I talked to him he said he forgot it was there and couldn't see it. I was speechless.
Can confirm, for me about 10 miles one way and the bigger the car the more likely they don't see you or don't care.
The front ends on the newest full-size SUVs and pick-ups look like 18-wheeler front-ends from the ‘70s.
I’m getting really annoyed by these articles about saint Hidalgo. Resident parking ie for people who live within the city parish limit won’t be subject to these new prices. But it is the people with really high income who live in the 8e and 16e who drive around Paris in Range Rovers and Audi Q7, alone in their cars, not the cleaning people from La Courneuve and Saint Denis who works in the offices and uses the RER B to commute to work. Not your regular office people as they either commute or bike to the office. And for those of us who decide to move further away from the first ring of surburb, we do have cars but use public transit if we need to go to Paris, either for work or leisure as it’s a lot faster and far less expensive.
It’s just a damn smoke screen as Parisians won’t be affected.
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Thank you. As a non-parisian dude, I wanted to ask that, and your comment was just in time to answer my curiosity.
Peut-être les automobilistes parisiens seront-ils affectés dans un second temps?
J’ai beaucoup de doutes sur ça. Elle a beau dire qu’elle souhaite protéger les gens de petite couronne avec cette votation, jusqu’à présent ses actions ont été en faveur des parisiens et contre les banlieusards. Ça m’étonnerait qu’elle ait changé sa vision d’un coup, elle en a juste assez de se faire taper par les élus d’IdF pour ses décisions non-concertées donc elle s’ajoute un polish « altruiste ».
Sur le principe, je suis d’accord avec limiter l’usage des SUV, nos infrastructures ne sont pas faites pour mais soit c’est tout le monde qui prend soit personne.
People in Slovakia keep buying them more and more and they don't even fit into the parking spaces..
Aw what? I'm trying to move to Slovakia partially because I want to escape this nonsense (though also because my grandfather's family is Slovak-Hungarian and I like Slovak language), this is devastating news for my distaste for being crushed by large objects travelling at fast speeds
But ma big ride!
Le big ride
Royale with Wheels
"Mah ride"
This is the best summary I could come up with:
No, I’m not talking about the mad rush for Wegovy, which is selling so swiftly that Denmark has to remove data relating to manufacturers Novo Nordisk to measure (the rest of) its economy properly.
The individual logic makes sense: would you want to drive on the same highway as Mr Tinydick’s 7,000lb (3,175kg) Dodge Ram if you’re in a Mini?
The measure, which would include hybrids and electric vehicles over a certain weight limit – though with an exemption for Paris resident parking – would affect roughly 10% of the cars in the city.
And beyond Paris, Tesla’s 6,800lb (3,080kg) Cybertruck probably won’t be coming to Europe at all, because at that weight, it requires a trucking licence to drive (I write this with a sigh of relief).
Hidalgo’s administration has pitched the increased parking fee as a form of social justice (taxing the owners of expensive cars) as well as a way to encourage use of public transport.
The next time I go back to the US, I wouldn’t be surprised to find someone driving an actual tank down the street, probably on their way to Krispy Kreme.
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Tesla’s 6,800lb (3,080kg) Cybertruck probably won’t be coming to Europe at all, because at that weight, it requires a trucking licence to drive
The maximum gross weight allowed for a “car“ driver license is 3500kg.
The cybertruck has a gross weight of 4300kg, which highly exceeds the 3500kg
In my country, for electric cars, they raised limit (gross/max. weight) to 4250 kg. Probably by the car lobby.
According to the specs, the AWD trim has max. weight of 4238 kg.
So, no problem with the standard drivers license.
If only ~~Cyber~~Uglytruck gets the EU approval.
In my country, for electric cars, they raised limit (gross/max. weight) to 4250 kg. Probably by the car lobby.
Also because, otherwise, electric workvans are impossible
The US is full of SUVs because of CAFE law. SUVs are trucks and thus have lower mpg requirements. Look at what's sold in the US. Almost all cars are tiny and grossly underpowered if more than 1 adult is in it. So our choices are a truck, SUV, or minivan.
I can go on vacation for a month with my family of four in my 2008 Prius
estonia is slowly
It needs to absolutely be regulated. I don't really want to get an SUV, but I might for my own safety when 3/4 of other cars on the road are monsters.
How about a Sports Utility Bicycle?
We're still very far from US sized cars.
It's mostly to remove the vehicles responsible for the most emissions.
Well I see more and more morons who are certainly not farmers drive around in Dodge RAMs and Ford F150s
This should be an easy fix for France (or any country). Don't make dumb laws.
Dumb laws or laws smartly written by the automobile industry themselves?
I mean, parking with a big car would be more of a nightmare than it is already in small-sized europe.
I guess that's the actual objective. Making driving unbearable