They recognize exactly why people prefer larger vehicles and then completely miss why driving a smaller vehicle puts you at a disadvantage against those bigger vehicles. People would of course become very angry if they’re told their humongous, gas-guzzling, tank of a vehicle were illegal to operate on the road especially only 7 months into an 84 month loan.
How then to reasonably phase these giant cars out? They’re directly more dangerous to everyone but the person sitting inside.
The main thing is to remove the exemption of “light truck” for regulations that make suvs and trucks so much cheaper to manufacture for auto companies.
As for local areas, they can increase property taxes for heavy vehicles, to
disentivse owning them.
Taxes. The trick to ban something without actually banning it is taxing it into oblivion, discouraging people from doing it. It won’t dissapear, but most people will be discouraged.
Regulations on the size of cars, ratcheting down for new models. Iirc, one of the factors in the increasing size of cars is due to how fuel efficiency standards are implemented - apparently it’s easier to make a car larger, but lighter, than to actually improve efficiency
We need to tax the externalities of antisocial behavior.
Require safety standards to test the damage vehicles cause to pedestrians and cyclists, including women and children. Tax vehicles based on how dangerous they are to others on the road.
Tax vehicles for the damage they do to the roads. Heavier vehicles destroy roads.
They recognize exactly why people prefer larger vehicles and then completely miss why driving a smaller vehicle puts you at a disadvantage against those bigger vehicles. People would of course become very angry if they’re told their humongous, gas-guzzling, tank of a vehicle were illegal to operate on the road especially only 7 months into an 84 month loan.
How then to reasonably phase these giant cars out? They’re directly more dangerous to everyone but the person sitting inside.
The main thing is to remove the exemption of “light truck” for regulations that make suvs and trucks so much cheaper to manufacture for auto companies.
As for local areas, they can increase property taxes for heavy vehicles, to disentivse owning them.
Taxes. The trick to ban something without actually banning it is taxing it into oblivion, discouraging people from doing it. It won’t dissapear, but most people will be discouraged.
Regulations on the size of cars, ratcheting down for new models. Iirc, one of the factors in the increasing size of cars is due to how fuel efficiency standards are implemented - apparently it’s easier to make a car larger, but lighter, than to actually improve efficiency
Increase their insurance premiums so that it actually account for the destruction those cars cause.
We need to tax the externalities of antisocial behavior.
Mass sabotage and vandalism