cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/31244231
Ian Brossat, a former Paris councillor and now a senator representing the French Communist party, called for SUVs to be banned in Paris. “This is not the first incident of its kind, and the dangerous nature of SUVs has already been pointed out on several occasions. We owe it to this young man to realise the scale of the problem and draw all the consequences,” Brossat told the Nouvel Obs.
Alternate U.S. headline:
Bike Accident Claims a Life, Unclear if Rider Wore a Helmet
SUVs are a plague. They should never have existed, much less be sold in Europe.
There are some rural places, such as northern Canada where am SUV is practical. With the amount of snow that falls there, a small car just doesn’t work well.
But in Paris, yeah, ban them.
Regular sized cars seem to work well in Finland and Norway, though.
And Russia has this 4x4 cutie:
This seems completely unrelated to the story at hand… an SUV isn’t any better at running down a cyclist than a truck is.
In British English, a truck is a lorry, or artic. I think you mean a pickup, which used to be called a pickup in US English, but changed to truck because of insecure, tiny-penis people
All of the above. Trucks are even better at killing civilians than SUVs are.
Truck drivers are professionals, which doesn’t make them perfect but at least trained in driving large vehicles. SUVs are oversized hormonal toys for insecure, wealthy people who hate rules and other people. They’re even specifically marketed towards that group, just like the modern F150s and RAMs you see now on our narrow roads.
In theory, yes.
In practice, trucks are possibly the greatest hazard to cyclist, and the don’t are ridiculously low. In one case, the driver list good license for a month and had to push l pay 4500 euros.
Initially, he called the judgement “too harsh” and that he wants to appeal, which it seems he retracted.
Trucks literally have better front visibility than most big SUVs
Is that a fact? Take it up with Edwards, M. and Leonard, D. (September 2022). “Effects of large vehicles on pedestrian and pedalcyclist injury severity”. Journal of Safety Research.
…are you trying to argue that trucks aren’t large vehicles?
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Isn’t there an EU citizens initiative to ban large suvs and large pickup trucks yet?
I searched here but I can’t find any:
https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/find-initiative_enThis passive language bullshit is so obvious sometimes. “Oh, I wonder what the cyclist did to get run over? And that poor SUV driver getting charged for murder because of this event, Paris is really going off the deep end finding ways to attack innocent drivers.” And yet, per the article, the SUV driver ran down the cyclist in a fit of road rage. That sounds an awful lot like an active choice by the driver, not some passive circumstance that the headline implies. If this person got angry and attacked someone with a knife, and the victim died, the headline wouldn’t be “Knife owner charged with murder after person stabbed”. But use the “right” weapon and all of a sudden we put the kiddie gloves on
