• OccamsRazer@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Truck size growth is driven at least partially, if not mainly, by gas mileage regulations, where you can have lower gas mileage on larger vehicles, an allowance that was made to accommodate work vehicles. So people who want a powerful vehicle are forced to go bigger. If these regulations were relaxed or eliminated, we would have much smaller but still powerful trucks. I’d be interested in something like that…

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      18 hours ago

      Or we could just tighten the regulations on large vehicles, rather than removing the whole system which is a net good over all.

      Best not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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        11 hours ago

        Well it doesn’t look like a net good right now. We have a million oversized trucks everywhere. We could have the same number of trucks, but smaller, for the same or less gas consumption. It would also be less dangerous to pedestrians and easier on the roads. Less tire wear and tear, and so on.

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      1 day ago

      Your reasoning is lacking.

      You’re “forced” to go bigger, because car manufacturers are too greedy. The big pickups and SUVs are basically classified as commercial trucks, so the regulations are much looser when it comes to emissions and safety. Which make them cheaper to produce.

      Car companies are more than capable of making powerful small cars under current regulations and even stricter ones, but that has a smaller profit margin. That’s why they are fighting this, they want to keep their margins and not have to compete with these cars.

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        1 day ago

        Just make those who want to get lower taxes for driving “commercial use” vehicles bring clear evidence of commercial use.

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      1 day ago

      Whereas you are correct, there’s a really smart solution. If we simply got everyone who owns a big pickup truck (not for work) and euthanized them, our problems would be solved.