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EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives as US pick-up trucks flood into Europe (www.transportenvironment.org)
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[โ€“] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

Well, people first need to want to buy these things. When they realize they are unable to park those things properly, due to our infrasturcture not being made for them, they will return them back.

[โ€“] HK65@sopuli.xyz 7 points 15 hours ago

People in the NL already buy them, despite there being no way to park them.

You need like 10 idiots in a million-large city and you can already feel it have a negative effect on traffic.

[โ€“] DV8@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

The people who buy this will feel fantastic about parking them like assholes in a way that it bothers people.

[โ€“] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Or they park in the most obnoxious places. I once saw a father waiting to pick up his kid in one, with 2 wheels on the pavement and his engine idling. This was in the eu and it had a typical macho pickup configuration: all black, spotless, tinted windows. I'd prefer it if those dickheads continued driving bmw's instead of pickups, much less annoying when they're tailgating you.

[โ€“] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago

Unfortunately, no, you give people too much credit. It's a status symbol to assholes, and assholes beget assholes. People need to treat them like Teslas were during the DOGE debacle.

[โ€“] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago

hopefully also when people treat them and their stupid big vehicles appropriately like shit

[โ€“] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

People will buy it despite infrastructure not being built for it. And they they will demand that the infrastructure accommodates them. And then they will build new infrastructure taking them into account. And then they'll rebuild the old infrastructure to accommodate them.

There are idiots in Europe too. There are oversized American trucks in Europe too. And they too occupy 4 parking slots if they are European sized instead of America sized.