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Haha, there is an interesting poetry in how auto companies pushing larger cars made these pro-cycling laws easier to pass.
I think it’s demand
Personally, and maybe this isn't the case elsewhere, I've heard no-one ask for cars/trucks to become larger. 0 demand.
@comfy
The customers go into dealers and pass over the smaller vehicles and buy the much larger vehicles.
At least in the US context there's a tax reason for it and the auto lobbyists seemed to ask for it.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution
Vox has a paywall, but my quick search showed only a deduction for vehicles for business use.
The short version is that CAFE standards classified vehicles by footprint (track width times wheelbase), allowing larger light trucks and SUVs to meet looser fuel economy targets than smaller passenger cars, incentivizing automakers to upsell bigger models for higher profits and easier compliance.
If you want to read the original article one of these should do it for you: https://web.archive.org/web/20240428101847/https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution https://archive.is/LJuSN
Really cool!
How difficult is it to create acistom map theme for mapcomplete?
I think it's supposed to pretty easy if you know what you want to make. You can try it here https://mapcomplete.org/studio.html
@ray
Ray, are you really from Mali?
I'm not. Did I post something that indicated such?
.ml is the country code for Mali
Ah yeah, it's just that I've been on Lemmy since very early days and .ml was the first instance. I think it's still one of the bigger ones. Not related to Mali just a domain that was available for free! https://lemmy.ml/post/68360/58307
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