Honestly this is absurd. These death machines shouldn’t be legal in europe. That thing doesn’t even fit in the parking space, even though the parking lot has the biggest spaces in the whole city. The Golf Polo is so small in comparison, it could even hide in front of the engine hood of the truck.

EDIT: It’s a Polo and not a Golf, I don’t know my cars, sorry for that!

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    143·
    1 year ago

    It’s mostly about them being unnecessary. Wasted fuel economy, wasted parking space, safety risks to anyone else on or near the road, etc.

    • MustardTigerEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      This is the dumbest comment I’ve seen today. Saying a truck is unnecessary simply because you have no use for one is ridiculous. Are we all really going to ignore the fact that they are incredibly useful? Towing capacity alone. People gotta move big things from one spot to another regularly. As for a waste of parking space, do you normally fit 2 cars in 1 spot? What difference does it make if you’re using the whole spot as opposed to half of it? This whole thread doesn’t make sense to me. For the record, I don’t own one, but would if I could afford one lol.

      • LawnMower@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        They can feel righteous about this issue. They feel powerless just like the rest of us but they get some satisfaction about taking out frustration on someone they feel deserves it.

      • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Once upon a time, people said the same about asbestos. Now, we don’t have homes lined with asbestos anymore. How do you think that happened? Don’t say “magic” or “totalitarian government control”.

          • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I don’t want to discuss it

            If you don’t want to discuss it, then don’t discuss it. Don’t say you don’t want to discuss it, and then discuss it anyway.

            You haven’t even made a point. You’ve described a landscape that has a poor public transit infrastructure, and made absolutely no justification as to why it can’t be fixed. Even if I were to assume you’re saying it’d cost too much to put in more tramways or even just more frequent buses on more routes, you’re completely ignoring the spending and infrastructure that goes into every household on your island getting one car for transit; that cost is going somewhere anyway as long as people need to go places. Most likely, that money is just spent individually rather than on shared solutions that benefit everyone for far less spending.

            I’ve been to Salzburg in Austria, and its hillyness and small, local roadways sound exactly what you’re describing. It uses small streets that prevent walking from becoming an extended, sweaty affair, and it has tram lines that get you from one end of town to the other, very reliably.

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Well, in that case both of these vehicles are highly wasteful as they burn fossil fuels, contributing to climate change. They get fairly equivalent gas mileage too. Now, compared to an electric vehicle…

      But at least they are both riding the train!