Viele 🚗 🚚 🚗 treffen sich gerade auf der A3: Nürnberg -> Passau, zwischen 3.0 km hinter Spitzig Berg und 3.6 km vor Kühberg und blockieren die #Autobahn.

Eine Gruppe #Kleinwagen feiert, dass in #Paris Besucher mit schweren #SUVs ab Oktober 2024 deutlich höhere #Parkgebühren zahlen müssen. Eine Stunde #Parken im #Stadtzentrum kostet 18 Euro, für sechs Stunden sind es 225 Euro. Betroffen sind schwere #Verbrenner-, Hybrid- und #Elektroautos. (Quelle: Standard)
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000238860/wer-mit-einem-suv-sechs-stunden-im-pariser-zentrum-parken-will-zahlt-nun-225-euro

On a Scale of Toughest to Wimpiest

It is overwhelmingly agreed that motorcyclists are tough as nails. They brave traffic with nothing to protect themselves but helmets and leather jackets. Every car on the road has a weight and hardness advantage over a motorcyclist.

We don’t want to see the motorcyclists get killed, so in the spring there is always messaging to be on the lookout for motorcycles. Usually in car/motorcycle accidents, the motorcyclist is severely hurt – even possibly fatally. While the car driver, with their airbags and crumpling architecture, can usually walk away from the accident.

But car drivers in their turn, are tougher than minivan drivers. The heavier minivan usually survives more of the crash while most of the danger of loss of life comes from the car driver and their passengers.

Then can we all agree that the wimpiest drivers on the road are pickup truck drivers and SUV drivers? They are in the safest vehicles of all except for big commercial trucks, snowplows, road graters etc. all of which demand a better licence. Usually these other drivers drive a car, minivan, SUV, pickup truck or motorcycle on their own time.

But wait one moment. If the motorcyclist wants to be tougher than nails, They can simply take off their helmet and leather jacket. So wouldn’t they be tougher than anyone else on the road? Not so fast.

Bicyclists share the road, too, in lots of parts of the city. Slowly we are building more bicycle infrastructure but for now, they’re half the time on road with the SUVs and all the bigger vehicles. Have you compared bicycle helmets with motorcycle helmets? The motorcycle helmets seem quite a bit more substantial. And cyclists almost never wear a leather jacket.

If motorcyclists are as tough as nails, bicyclists are as tough as titanium nails.

But pedestrians are the toughest of all. They have no safety equipment except for their clothes. Yes they have their own lanes, better known as sidewalks, but still have to cross other traffic.

Are jaywalkers the toughest type of traffic of all? With no equipment of any kind for their safety, they cross against all kinds of traffic without any laws to protect them if they get it wrong.

Jaywalkers are as tough as diamonds. Diamonds are the toughest of all substances known to man. SUV drivers should look on in awe, instead of honking their horns like wimps, when they see the jaywalkers.

Viele 🚗 🚚 🚗 treffen sich gerade auf der A3: Nürnberg -> Passau, zwischen 3.0 km hinter Spitzig Berg und 3.6 km vor Kühberg und blockieren die #Autobahn.

Die #Autos demonstrieren für mehr #Frauen am Steuer! 👩‍🦰 #Männer verursachen laut Statistiken deutlich mehr schwere #Verkehrsunfälle, oft durch #Rasen, #Alkohol 🍷 oder riskantes #Fahrverhalten. Überdimensionierte #SUVs und eine männlich geprägte #Verkehrspolitik verstärken die Gefahr für #Radverkehr und #Fußgänger. 🚴‍♂️ (Quelle: TAZ)

Sprawl, cars and climate
Transport set to be Australia’s top-emitting sector by 2030, private cars (SUVs) still dominate.

“If you’re in suburbia or regional Australia and you’re trying to make a journey, often you’ll find public transport is just not a viable option and you have no choice but to drive."

"Experts have pointed towards an Australian love for US-style SUVs as a contributing factor to the rising death toll on roads nationwide, which has climbed every year since the pandemic, with NSW the highest of any state." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/07/sprawling-city-public-transit-work-sydney-right-track
#sprawl #cars #SUVs #DeathToll #transport #climate #PublicTransport #NSW #MobilityDesign

Us, in our tiny little Suzuki Swift nearly got rear ended by one of those giant fucking RAM SUVs this morning (irony noted).

The guy in front of the guy in front of us braked hard, causing the guy in front of us to break, and me to break... the guy in the SUV behind us braked hard as well, but had to swerve into the side verge so he didn't just run into the back of us.

I think it was a mixture of him going fast and not paying attention, more than him being too close (although those giant things have so much weight to them that drivers really need to leave way more stopping space than they do).

Anyways, I'm glad he thought quickly and didn't hit us. But also those things shouldn't be driven by most of the people who have them.

#Bathurst #BathurstNSW #RegionalAustralia #Australia #cars #driving #SUVs

Viele 🚗 🚚 🚗 treffen sich gerade auf der A3: Nürnberg -> Passau, zwischen 3.0 km hinter Spitzig Berg und 3.6 km vor Kühberg und blockieren die #Autobahn.

Eine Gruppe #Kleinwagen feiert, dass in #Paris Besucher mit schweren #SUVs ab Oktober 2024 deutlich höhere #Parkgebühren zahlen müssen. Eine Stunde #Parken im #Stadtzentrum kostet 18 Euro, für sechs Stunden sind es 225 Euro. Betroffen sind schwere #Verbrenner-, Hybrid- und #Elektroautos. (Quelle: Standard)
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000238860/wer-mit-einem-suv-sechs-stunden-im-pariser-zentrum-parken-will-zahlt-nun-225-euro