Comment on More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space

Kualdir@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We should really just have EU law

  About that…

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  • Kualdir@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well yes I maybe did not notice this was a UK community 😅

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• HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We should really just have EU law that over a certain size requires a new license that isn’t automatically given to people that have one now.

  Ignoring the brexit crap and assuming you ment EU and UK laws.

  I don’t think that would help. If we had a new licence class. It would just mean people need to do more tests to drive it.

  Unfortunately licence structure have no when needed requirements. Just the qualification.

  A suggested solution would be a road access class. If vehicles over a certain size (lets just say width. ) had a significant no of roads they were only allowed in for blue badge holders or loading and unloading. No parking.

  For most owners the impractical living with such vehicles would only be tolerable when they have a second transport and a safe storage area that dosent ban parking.

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  • Kualdir@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Having rules that disabled people (or people driving them) get exceptions is something I’d take as a given within EU countries (UK still has EU values mostly so they’re included when I say EU)

    The main issue we need to solve is the 9 to 5 people who could go to work with a fiat 500 instead taking a Ford F150 because 🤏 instead of any practical reason.

    Higher cars are generally very unsafe for pedestrians AND people driving smaller cars (which encourages those people to also buy bigger cars) while also being less safe for the people in them (main reason people but them is cause they “feel more safe”)

    It’d be environmentally and socially better to have smaller cars.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      A lot of EU laws still apply to Northern Ireland anyway, so in most cases, EU standards and attitudes get applied to the UK anyway. Like the iPhone changes.

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    • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Those exemption do not currently apply to actual licence to vechle type allocation.

      I do not know about the rest of the EU. But in the UK no class of car only applies to disabled users or actual road access law.

      If I live on a no vechle access road. Being disabled would not allow me to drive a car to my doorstep.

      Same goes for any limitation in the site or weight of vehicles.

      My licence (no longer valid as I now have a disability that bans me from driving.) Was an old one that allows me to drive 3,5t trucks. Newer licences do not let younger drivers do so without passing a different test.

      This is the closest we have ever come to adding a new restriction on the type of car you cab drive. No extra specification for disability has ever existed for the changes you propose. Hence why I included this need to reconsider so Ugh things in my suggestion.

      As for the rest of your response. The comment you responded to was trying to address that exact situation,

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  People with several kids, disabled people, etc.

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  • Kualdir@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A car that houses 5 people does not need to almost be as wide as a bus, we have compact cars that can handle 5 people.

    As for disabled people those can also mostly be transported by a normal car (with some modifications) or a small bus, they don’t need a Ford F150 size car for that

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    my neighbours have 8 kids and their minibus is smaller than many of these trucks.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    These huge cars don’t seat more people than regular cars. They’re huge for aesthetic reasons only. Estate cars are just slightly longer- but length isn’t the problem. It’s width and height.

    1000072214

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