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'Carspreading’ is on the rise - not everyone is happy (www.bbc.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Eyekaytee@aussie.zone to c/worldnews@aussie.zone

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[–] frunch@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"Everyone I've spoken to over the years who has bought an SUV says they like being higher up, they like better visibility, and they feel safer on motorways and bigger roads.

They may get that visibility boost for now and at the expense of proper visibility for drivers in cars that sit lower than them.

In time (and it won't be long now), when most cars are sitting at the higher level, they'll need to go even higher to get that visibility back. By that point, it will not only be at the expense of nearly everyone else's visibility but also enters into a fun new category--limiting the drivers own visibility of shorter cars and most importantly pedestrians and anything on the ground in front of the vehicle.

[–] MisterFrog@aussie.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

The visibility argument is also dumb because in general these cars have much, much worse visibility

Maybe you can see over the top of other cars roofs, but that's about it

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo

(Most of this video is about American style utes, but the same applies to SUVs and larger cars in general)

[–] RyanDownyJr@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

This. This right here. Same logic applied to America with all the dumb raised trucks and SUVs. Every car is soooo high now, you basically have raised the bar to the point where a car can just pass right over a small dog in most cases...