• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    How is the financial penalty of them costing a shitload more to buy and run not enough, why do people want these?

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Around 2020, manufacturers all but stopped making small cars since it’s easier for them to make SUVs and trucks with weaker emissions standards. It’s almost impossible to find any compact that was made after 2020, especially in the US. I’m sure it’s only a bonus that they’re typically more expensive than small cars.

      There’s also the problem that the more SUVs and trucks dominate the streets, the more dangerous they become for everyone. Your average car weighs as much as a damn elephant nowadays. I own a compact but hate driving because it’s like being in the middle of a drunken stampede.

      At the end of the day, fuck cars.

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      2 months ago

      I think a lot of people don’t want them. But in my case there wasn’t any normal car that had the features I wanted. I’d rather not need it but I really do if I’m gonna be able to work full time.

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          2 months ago

          I wanted a car that was relatively quiet and a plug in hybrid. Not a big list of demands by far.

          But so many of the PHEVs are SUVs nowadays.

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              2 months ago

              Because the vast majority of my traveling can be done using electricity and not gasoline.

              It is way cheaper to charge it and I frankly like to drive it more, when it is using electricity. Sometimes I do longer trips and need to use gasoline and I do not have the option of charging it at home.

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    2 months ago

    The implication is that the buyer is a bad driver, which most people would think is someone else since they are actually a good driver. The Dunning-Kruger effect applies here.

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      2 months ago

      I guarantee that most of the apes buying emotional support vehicles do not think or care about the world outside their idiot brains.

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    2 months ago

    Wait did someone think people buy cars with others in mind? (Noting that “impressing” others is for the self, not the others)

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    2 months ago

    Why are all the studies nowadays doing nothing more than confirming common sense that almost everyone else can see?

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      2 months ago

      I mean, very obviously not everybody sees this, otherwise we wouldn’t have streets full of deadly vehicles would we?

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        2 months ago

        I call the modern-day cigarette smoker an exception to that rule, but yes, there are none so blind as those that cannot see.