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Urban Microcars (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Society's got priorities wrong.

  • most car travels are 1 person or sometimes 2 person

  • the majority of car travels are quite short, less than 40km.

  • many car travels are just to get some groceries or drop of a little package or just say "hi" to someone, carrying nothing but themselves.

  • cars are fucking expensive, to buy and to maintain

  • accidents become way worse with heavier vehicles

Microcar is a valid answer to all of these, while still being sheltered from weather.

How are urban places (i'm in Belgium) with almost permanent super heavy road traffic congestion, bad climate statistics, high polution values, very limited available space left, no self-sustaining energy production and high traffic accident statistics still pooring in billions and billions in subsidies year after year into "regular" big heavy SUV-like vehicles instead of these? It's beyond my comprehension. The only real valid reason i somewhat get is the collective scare of being in a crash and not wanting to be in the smaller vehicle. We could save the climate, we choose not to.

  • MICROLINO: 17.990 €
  • OPEL ROCKS: 8.699 €
  • CITROEN AMI: 7.790 €
  • RENAULT TWIZY: 13.000 €
  • FIAT TOPOLINO: 9.890 €

A lot of people here casually spend more on a sunday racing bike every few years for fucks sake.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago

Pretending that the EU cares about the safety of people in the first instance is laughable, most of these tests are performed at high speed crashes which you wouldn't expect to have in the type of trips that a tiny EV with an autonomy of 170km would perform.

If these were priorities, SUVs would be forbidden instead of promoted in Europe. They have lower visibility, they hit people higher up in their body which increases damage, they're heavier so the occupants of the vehicles they crash against are hurt more severely because of conservation of linear momentum, and they consume more fossil fuels so they increase pollution and global warming. How well a vehicle will handle an impact against a pole at 100km/h isn't relevant to me.

And how well do second-hand, comparably-priced cars in the used market perform in these tests? Because it's pointless to compare 5000€ vehicles to 20.000€ vehicles in terms of that.