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- europe
While this is mostly about parking issues, the part that stood out most to me in this is:
A study published in the Journal of Safety Research last year found that children were eight times more likely to die when struck by an SUV than those struck by a passenger car.
Eight times! To me, that’s insane. Even if it were 50% that would be very bad, but this is 700% more!
I have a modest proposal: If a car is too big for a standard parking spot, it gets marked on the licence plate. It then is not allowed to park on standard parking spots as it’s too big for them. Cities and companies are allowed to create bigger parking spots where such cars are allowed to park.
Cities, no, that’s public funds.
Companies, yes.
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And require a commercial driver’s licenses that costs more and takes more training and testing.
I’d rather just ban them, but your proposal is more likely to be accepted.
charge them double.