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I like my Smart EV. From the outside, it is as long as most cars are wide, can U-turn as right as a Tesla Cyber truck, if not tighter, and can get me from A-B daily, charging overnight off a regular household outlet.
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It’s the 70s all over again.
Yep. All it will take is one oil shock and we’ll have GM and Ford scrambling to build small cars, fail miserably, get bailed out, and then start building giant cars again.
Meanwhile the cars for sale in the US, driven partially by EV range anxiety, are getting bigger on average.
I’m 6’4", fuck your small cars, lol.
As someone that just traded in my Sierra 1500 for a Sienna Minivan, I don’t understand why minivans get so much hate. My van is an excellent people mover, can carry a lot of shit, and gets 36MPG. The Tahoe I was looking at doesn’t hold a candle to my van, and uses a lot of expensive gas to boot.
Towing. The tahoe could tow way more than the van. They have different purposes.
Vans are awesome!! So are trucks, de0ends on your needs
Unfuck the CAFE standards and manufacturers will quit killing off car models and producing so many “light trucks”.
I would love to have smaller cars, but my average size Civic can’t see around the driving billboards that all the people are driving these days, increasing the danger and risk to myself and passenger(s).
the only problem i had when i was driving a small car (i drive a mid-size car now) was my sense of vulnerability when surrounded by stupid massive lifted trucks bearing down on me. it felt really unsafe. and i live in stupid-giant-truck land, they’re not an anomaly here.
eta - plus giant truck owners seem to get off on being scary aggressive drivers.
Been driving a Honda civic for years.
from the thumbnail, thought it was the Simpsons car haha
I can’t fit 3 kids with car seats in a small car. I drive anything that is affordable
I have 4 kids, vans or suvs are my only option. I got my explorer new for 24k. It was the cheapest vehicle with 3 rows and room for luggage in the back. I miss driving a car, but for the next decade I need a kid hauler.
That is barely even the start of what we need. It would do us better to embrace public transit and densification. If we all just switched to small cars instead it wouldn’t solve the underlying issues with car dependent infrastructure. We’d still have wide swaths of useful land buried under miles of concrete and asphalt. We’d still have urban spaces that are hostile to anyone not in a automobile (admittedly somewhat less so). My commute time is nearly doubled simply because all of the parking lots I have to walk through. There’s no need (outside of accommodating drivers) for everything to be separated by so much empty space.
It is amazing to think of how much land is buried under pavement. The problem is solving the “last mile” issue. You still need a car to get to the train station for instance.
Yeah, changing up cars seems like scratching at a symptom rather than the problem. If there are thousands of cars all headed in the same direction every day… It seems like offering a train would be pretty obvious win.
Trains are great for getting from one dense area to another. As soon as you need to go in any other direction though you are stuck. Plus the US is so spread out you still need a car to get to the station unless you live a mile or so near it and that is a pretty limited area.
Cars would still be needed in some situations though, in which case it would be better if they were small
For sure, I’m not saying we have to entirely ban cars. And small cars are much better than large cars. But neither should be everyone’s first thought for “how do I get around town?”
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I really really wanna get a Honda Acty van. The trucks are cool, but that little van (or really any Kei van) is just the best thing to me. Pretty rare in the US though, so finding one nearby is a challenge!
Same (and it is a thing where I’m at, it just needs to be used+imported). But also I don’t really want to drive, and I do not afford such a thing (both in terms of need and money).
I did buy a small+cheap+geared ebike (45 pounds, 20" wheels) and it’s pretty great. Would be nice to be lighter, but that’s a cost thing. Somewhat smaller perhaps too (not that I’ve tried it), though that would probably require a custom design or perhaps an normal bike (I am not sure how a niche smaller bike would compare to what I have now in terms of riding effort/experience and cost especially without a good-deal local used or clones on sale).
Though bicycling also has its limits/caveats where I’m at (also for me personally, so I don’t have a standard commute) but the specific utility (especially due to a nearby trail) that is there in different forms makes it worth it (health being a big one, 1-way trips, I even fetched water 12L at a time when the pump was out).
