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Paris residents set to vote on plan to triple parking charges for SUVs (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Cubic feet would be better, especially as taller vehicles are more dangerous to pedestrians.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Let's ban archaic units like feet and stick with cubic meter.

Plus there are vans, so the more accurate metric would be a cubic meter per passenger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah I'd prefer metric, but I was just being consistent with the thread, as the actual units are somewhat beside my point.

Now to find why I didn't get a notification for this reply...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Ah yeah, that's more accurate to what I was thinking

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Length × Width × Hood Height then?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Yeah, and just register it in a database. Like how I gotta pay $100 more in vehicle registration because my car's 50 fucking kg above the lower bracket. People with F350s can pay triple what I do. No, sextuple! Because they can't fit in just one park. Parking inspector puts in the number plate and machine calculates the rest.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

That's how we get double decker cars lol