We need to address America's #Autobesity problem, especially when some of us are still driving low 1,000 kg cars in the midst of these behemoths.
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I saw this visual demonstration of ‘car bloat’ on our London high street. Cars are getting wider on average by 2cm per year in a profit-driven trend. The average UK car now takes up 1/3 more road space and win’t fit in a traditional home garage. #autobesity #carbloat #carspread #visionzero
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From @climatetown.bsky.social : "Whelp, the roads of America have been flooded with glorified tanks, and now 4 out of every 5 new vehicles sold are non-passenger work vehicles. How awesome."
#Autobesity #carbloat #carspreading #streetsafety
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Will Chinese EVs suffer from the same #autobesity as the current vehicles on North American roads? (And, of course, your regular reminder EVs are here to save the auto industry, not the environment.) #CarCulture #TransportationChoice
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Agreed.
#CarBloat #Autobesity #CarSpreading #PlacesForPeople
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
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Autobesity is a huge problem. There are neighbourhoods in my Canadian city where the trucks don't fit the garage (too long), hang over the sidewalk from the driveway (again too long) and there's little street parking bc lots are narrow. And then there is the height issue... #Autobesity #CarCulture
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#autobesity serves only one purpose- corporate profit.
That’s why the makers spend a fortune on advertising #wankpanzers.
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It's on YouTube
Canada should follow the Europeen safety regulations, not USA's which allow these monster vehicles.
#carbesity #autobesity #roadsafety
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the side roads of Balham are a great exhibition of #autobesity, a prize collection of nonsensically huge cars
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Someone, if this was the other place, would be along shortly to explain that they need, everyday, to carry aged relatives ro hospial, children going to archery classes, furniture, cement mixers, cellos and therefore *need* one of these 'sports utility' tanks. #autobesity #CarBloat
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These monsters are the two-wheeled equivalents of the #wankpanzer.
#Autobesity in all its forms is a scourge on the roads & life-threatening to pedestrians.
Govts need to ban their use on pedestrian ways and insist they be licensed like any motor vehicle.
#auspol
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#Autobesity is real. No wonder parking is disappearing when there's that much more vehicle. Ridiculous! #CarCulture
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bsky.app/profile/davi...
#autobesity
#environment
All vehicles should be taxed on the basis of weight and size. Heavier vehicles disproportionately degrade roads. Wider and longer vehicles disproportionately hog public space.
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For parking, shouldn’t concern be size/footprint rather than weight as #AutoObesity ( #autobesity / #CarBloat ) cubic meters are increasingly a problem
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Subsidising #autobesity? 🤦🏻♂️
Ed Miliband accused of subsidising ‘wasteful and dangerous’ electric SUVs
An electric #wankpanzer is still a wankpanzer.
Regulate mass and tyre width.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Big vehicles have a heavy cost. For every life saved by being in an SUV or pickup truck, 4.3 other lives are lost; for the heaviest 1% of SUVs or trucks, this ratio soars to 12:1.
We’re opting out of the pointless race towards ever vehicle size and power.
#RoadPeace #FCEV #Autobesity
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Part of the problem in #yqr is the small town mentality that there should always be free parking 3' from the door of where people want to do. Downtown has sooo much parking. Poor land use because we don't charge enough property tax. #CarCulture #Autobesity
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#autobesity
ban #wankpanzers
regulate cars on mass & tyre width
tax mass as well as emissions
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That one on the right is a Pavement Princess that will likely only ever be used to haul a laptop to work or a bag to the gym. #CarCulture #Autobesity
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www.thestar.com/news/gta/shu...
Silence from Doug "law & order" Ford.
Ford loves cars--big cars--more than he loves life itself.
#ONpoli
#autobesity
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Doug Ford is *forcing* Toronto to waste money.
Tomorrow he'll be complaining that the city can't manage a budget.
#cycling
#ONpoli
#autobesity
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www.wired.com/story/list-o...
Most of the cancelled #EVs are monsters: obese and heavy. They take up too much real estate. Their tires shed too much toxic particulate matter. They make huge demands on the grid. They are a menace to pedestrians and cyclists.
Good riddance.
#cars
#autobesity
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The Ford F-150, Explorer, Lincoln Aviator, and Bronco are not only obese and dangerous to cyclists, they're also far more likely to be recalled than other vehicles.
#autobesity
#cars
#SUVs
qz.com/ford-2025-re...
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Sadly true.
#CarBloat #Autobesity
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To make them safer for people outside of the vehicle, they should go back to being smaller...
Who needs a monster truck to transport ONE person and a pint of milk?
#Autobesity #carobesity #carbrain
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#Autobesita: l'ingiustificata crescita continua delle dimensioni delle auto
Una bella carrellata di confronti vecchio/nuovo mostra l'assurda crescita delle dimensioni delle auto negli anni.
Più lunghe, più larghe, più pesanti, più pericolose, più sprechi.
@energia […]
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