This Is Not a Problem, It Is a Solution

This kills people and destroys the planetIt turns out that the trend towards oversized murder mobiles is happening in Europe as well.

There are now problems with the newer cars fitting in parking spaces, because cars,SUVs drive trend for new cars to grow 1cm wider every 2 years.

The article notes that parking spaces will need to be widened.

I have a better idea.  Make the parking spaces narrower by 1cm every 2 years, and ticket aggressively.

The SUV road maggots kill people and waste resources.  Do not accommodate their excesses:

New cars in the EU and UK have grown 1cm wider every two years, the Guardian can reveal, driven by large luxury SUVs whose sales show no sign of slowing.

“It’s unrelenting,” said James Nix, an analyst at the Transport and Environment (T&E) campaign group and author of the report. “Spurred on by sales of the largest SUVs, vehicles are getting wider every year.”

New cars have become so bloated that half of them are too wide to fit in parking spaces designed to the minimum on-street standards in many countries, the report found. The average width of a new car in the EU and UK passed 180cm in the first half of 2023, having grown an average of 0.5cm each year since 2001.

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Big cars are more likely than small cars to kill people in crashes because they weigh more and have tall front ends that trap victims beneath them instead of knocking them to the side. They also pump more toxic gas into the air and eat up more space on roads and pavements.

You may not be able to ban these 4 ton death machines, but if they cannot fit in a parking space, people will not buy them.