• FishFace@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    The length is bad but the 0.5cm extra width per year strikes me as much worse. There’s a lot of room for longer vehicles than the average cars of yesteryear - vans and light trucks have always been around. But those vehicles tended to only be slightly wider, if at all, in order to fit into lanes on the road, parking spaces, through gateways and so on. Half a centimetre wider per year is insane.

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      2 days ago

      I would hope countries will just stop approving cars as road legal if they are too wide to fit on the roads.

      I do occasionally see the odd range rover in the Netherlands. It’s always hilariously out of place, and of course does not fit in any single parking space here. But they have to drive around with a special license plate for import vehicles, apparently it’s fine then.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      Maybe you need to invite in China’s “belt and road” people to cinch in that extra width.