People with street parking only - why do you keep buying bigger and bigger cars?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because they are now working primarily from home so don’t have to worry about fighting for parking on a daily basis or commuting costs?

Do you have no clue how big cars were in the 60s/70s/early 80s? And people parked on the streets and managed to survive.

The population was much lower and people often didn’t have multiple cars. Thank you very much.

Then your argument would be that households should only have one car. Thank you very much.

You should have a tricycle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate it. I don't even like the "small" SUVs. Everyone wants to drive around in a little mini-living room. I hate that 80% of the vehicles parked on my block these days are SUVs. It didn't used to be this way. It seems like the de facto choice for people with kids and/or dogs, and it's not necessary. Having one or two kids does not necessitate a Subaru Forrester or Honda CR-V.

Also, if you claim to care about the environment but you are purchasing a brand new, non-hybrid, non-electric SUV, you are full of it. Yes, these vehicles are not as gas guzzling as older model SUVs or the really enormous ones. They still use more gas than a smaller vehicle. And if you are using it for yourself or a small family of 3 or 4, you are allocating a lot of resources for your family to be moderately more comfortable. If you have to have a car (which I get -- we have to have a car too), you had lots of decent, more environmentally conscious, options, and you chose to get an SUV instead. You're a jerk.

The CRV is, or at least used to be, built on the same frame as a Civic. I get grumbling about huge vehicles, but you are essentially saying that people compact cars are too big, which is just silly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because they are now working primarily from home so don’t have to worry about fighting for parking on a daily basis or commuting costs?

Do you have no clue how big cars were in the 60s/70s/early 80s? And people parked on the streets and managed to survive.

The population was much lower and people often didn’t have multiple cars. Thank you very much.

Then your argument would be that households should only have one car. Thank you very much.

You should have a tricycle.

🤷🏻‍♀️ Sorry you don’t understand the OP’s argument is without merit. I’ll keep my SUV and you can keep whining about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:America is one of the wealthiest nations on earth and we can afford to buy massive vehicles, gas prices are only a token annoyance to many and reusable shopping bags are the extent of their actions regarding the environment. They don't care about....well, they just don't care.

Yup, this is the crux of it.

You've all been suckered in by marketing, there is no good reason that everyone is buying these large vehicles except that they make car companies more money. They are universally worse for the environment, and more dangerous: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/3/11/21152975/crossover-utility-vehicle-honda-cr-v-suv

On a warming planet, the 21 combined MPG in a Chevy Traverse or 23 in a Nissan Murano is still, well, bad. “The gains that car companies have made in fuel efficiency have completely been undermined by the size and weight of the cars that these efficient engines are now pushing around,” says Doug Gordon, a pedestrian safety advocate and co-host of The War on Cars podcast.

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Crossover marketing has proven so successful that consumers may not recognize the fallacy of pushing cars for their ability to quietly blend in with nature. In a commercial for the 2008 Ford Escape Hybrid, writes Brock University sociologist Dennis Soron, a young family drives right up to admire a group of deer. Just like the Subaru ads before it, this crossover was meant for the crunchy consumer who is concerned with human impact on our planet.

“Because of the quiet hybrid engine, the otherwise skittish deer remain unperturbed,” Soron continues. “Ironically enough for Ford drivers, not only are deer the large mammal most often killed by auto collisions, but all animals vulnerable to road traffic are likely to be put in greater danger by quieter vehicles that are harder to hear in advance.” Cars kill more than a million vertebrates in the U.S. per day, he points out — so many that cars are second only to animal agriculture (and ahead of hunting) as the largest killer of animals.

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Perhaps the most dramatic safety risk posed by SUVs is their danger to pedestrians. Between 2009 and 2016, pedestrian deaths increased by 46 percent, and much of that is almost certainly attributable to the rise of SUVs, says Schmitt.

“When a pedestrian is hit by a moving vehicle, the taller that vehicle is, the more dangerous it is,” says Levine. “All other things being equal, the taller the vehicle, the harder it is for the driver to be able to see pedestrians and to stop themselves from hitting pedestrians, and that is a problem that you see day after day.” In a collision with a sedan, a pedestrian can roll onto the hood and get away with serious injuries, but when hit in the chest or higher by an SUV, a person is much more likely to die. Crashes can be mitigated by new technologies like automatic emergency braking and pedestrian detection, but whether these can do enough to neutralize SUVs’ danger to people is unproven.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because they are now working primarily from home so don’t have to worry about fighting for parking on a daily basis or commuting costs?

Do you have no clue how big cars were in the 60s/70s/early 80s? And people parked on the streets and managed to survive.

The population was much lower and people often didn’t have multiple cars. Thank you very much.

Then your argument would be that households should only have one car. Thank you very much.

You should have a tricycle.

🤷🏻‍♀️ Sorry you don’t understand the OP’s argument is without merit. I’ll keep my SUV and you can keep whining about it.

Emoji doesn’t correlate. Look at it carefully and reread what you wrote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:America is one of the wealthiest nations on earth and we can afford to buy massive vehicles, gas prices are only a token annoyance to many and reusable shopping bags are the extent of their actions regarding the environment. They don't care about....well, they just don't care.

Nope. We don't.

-New gas guzzling SUV owner. Sorry, not sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:America is one of the wealthiest nations on earth and we can afford to buy massive vehicles, gas prices are only a token annoyance to many and reusable shopping bags are the extent of their actions regarding the environment. They don't care about....well, they just don't care.

Nope. We don't.

-New gas guzzling SUV owner. Sorry, not sorry.

The “sorry, not sorry” thing is tired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:America is one of the wealthiest nations on earth and we can afford to buy massive vehicles, gas prices are only a token annoyance to many and reusable shopping bags are the extent of their actions regarding the environment. They don't care about....well, they just don't care.

Nope. We don't.

-New gas guzzling SUV owner. Sorry, not sorry.

Tell it to your kids, not me. They are the ones who are going to have to live with the consequences of your selfishness.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because I know how to park no matter how big my car is? What strange logic.

Just because OP can’t figure out parallel parking doesn’t mean we all can’t!

Let's be clear. If your drive a car that essentially parallel parks for you, it doesn't mean you know how to parallel park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Uhm, why don't you ask your 3 neighbors why they made their purchases instead of asking an anonymous internet board?

Exactly!

[Anonymous]

Larger SUV’s make up for DH small D and DW tiny b00bies

[Anonymous]

We lose at least 3 spaces on each side of the street due to suvs. Some of the folks rarely drive. It’s challenging.

[Anonymous]

Don't blame my CRV. We have one car for a family of four, and make an effort to bike and walk to our downtown. My retired neighbors have one car each, which definitely squeezes parking more even though one of their vehicles is smaller.

I will grant that it's not the most environmentally friendly car, but we bought it used and cheap, we straight up can't afford hybrid or electric at this point in our lives. Hopefully by the time we run this car into the ground they will be more affordable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the past year, at least 3 of my neighbors have traded in their old cars (generally small SUVs) and gotten enormous sized SUVs. WHY?! Do you not realize that street parking is already tough? You don't need an enormous SUV. You really don't. If you need a tank to drive, then you need to learn how to drive better, and safer.

People get to do what they want and you can either deal or move.

[Anonymous]

The new 2023 Hummer has Crab Mode. You can turn wheels sideways and go into spot.