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US car culture is weird as fuck.
In Europe damn near everybody would think you’re a douchebag if you drove one of those in the city. European cities just aren’t built for those monstrosities.
European cities just aren’t built for those monstrosities.
I once drove around Kyoto with a couple friends of a friend. That wouldn’t be at all notable except for the fact that we were toolin’ around in a Camaro in Kyoto. This was the early 1990s and I didn’t know the word virtual reality but I experienced a meta form that day. Inside was America and outside was Kyoto but when we pulled over and go out - were were actually in Kyoto.
Their English wasn’t that good so I never quite did learn why the car owner bought a Camaro. He lived in Kyoto and that car was basically ridiculous for Japanese cities. Driving around was like being in a big yacht on a very small river.
I mean that or car manufacturers could just start making small pickups again
But sometimes I need to haul a $90 2x4
For out of five new cars sold in Canada are a pickup truck or an SUV. When you get out of the cities literally everybody and their mother is in a fuck-off huge tricked out truck, and the vast vast majority of people aren’t using them for anything more arduous than going through the Tim Horton’s drive through.
The ever increasing size of vehicles to make sure you “win” the car crash is so horrible for safety, for the environment, for our infrastructure. We really do need some remedy to make sure if you’re driving a huge and deadly vehicle, you actually have a reason to be.
