Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?

rcbrk@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Tenderizer@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m guessing the sales of emotional support vehicles would drop overnight with that policy.

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• psud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You don’t want to catch small EVs in the rule, I’d do it on dimensions and view angle and classify anything big or inefficient under a different category with different licence rules and conditions. I mean we don’t want drivers of big engined fast cars impaired any more than we want drivers of giant utes impaired

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  • rcbrk@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    On weight, why not? – because F=ma – weight influences the risk posed by the vehicle regardless of whether it is lithium or steel.

    Then again, newer cars have ANCAP pedestrian/vulnerable road user safety ratings which could override a weight threshold where available.

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    • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ANCAP guidelines are pushing for larger and larger vehicles.

      Crumple Zones, and pedestrian protection add significantly to the size and weight of a vehicles, and negatively impact driver awareness.

      Driver Assistance is OK to provide an extra level of protection, but result in complacency.

      A compact vehicle with good visibility and visceral road awareness will be less destructive on the roads than an oversized SUV with a driver ignoring all the ADAS technology blithely unaware of their surroundings.

      That said, a compact vehicle with unobtrusive ADAS would be even safer.

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      • rcbrk@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m just grappling for an objective measure of the impact hazard posed by a given vehicle which might be more accurate than weight alone.

        Impact hazard × Impact likelyhood could form a determination of whether a vehicle should be subject to a Zero BAC requirement.

        Impact likelyhood should be determined by dimensions and sight-lines – maybe there’s a good comprehensive measure of this that doesn’t give too much weight to things like ADAS?

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