Each day on average one car slams into a 7/11 storefront in the US.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/08/one-mans-case-reveals-cars-slam-into-storefronts-like-7-eleven-with-alarming-frequency
via @TheWarOnCars
#waroncars

@cdamian @notjustbikes I also read recently that every 2 children get killed by slow moving cars in driveways and local streets.

Someone from Marin County California sent me this picture from their local street... where the median home value is 1.3 million dollars....

Not only do NIMBYs prevent people from having an affordable place to call home, they also guarantee perpetual car-dependent society.

11/ So despite what fragile suburban men who own big minivans may say, the normalization of using big cars for everyday tasks is a significant problem. It is bad for our safety, it's bad for our rapidly warming planet, and it's bad for our wallets.

8/ This creates a vicious cycle where everyone wants bigger cars. The outcomes are quite obvious.

9/ Additionally, as our vehicles get bigger and bigger it makes it more difficult for smaller and more affordable cars to be able to pass north american crash safety standards.

7/ Since the #1 selling vehicles are pickup trucks it leads to more big vehicules on the road. Which incentivizes car manufacturers to upsize all their models in order to assure customers that their cars are safe in this new road environment filled with F150s.

6/ But this doesn't detract from the core message of the figure. Namely that massive pickup trucks have replaced minivans and are now used as everyday "lifestyle" vehicles. This creates numerous negative consequences.

1/ The author @W_R_Chase@twitter.com of the original axios article, where the data for this figure comes from, reached out to me saying that @TheHustle@twitter.com didn't use the data appropriately, therefore creating a misleading figure. Let me explain how the figure is misleading:

2/ In the original axios article the authors measured the ratio between the bed and the interior space of the cab (starting from the end of the front windshield to the back windshield), excluding the hood. https://www.axios.com/ford-pickup-trucks-history

5/ Goes to show that even semi-official looking publications like this often have poor editorial standards. As a consequence they stain the reputation of the industry as a whole. I'll definitely be more cautious posting figures like this going forward. https://thehustle.co/01272023-pickups/

11/ So despite what fragile suburban men who own big minivans may say, the normalization of using big cars for everyday tasks is a significant problem. It is bad for our safety, it's bad from our rapidly warming planet and it's bad for our wallets.

10/ This artificially makes vehicles more expensive, but it also incentivizes more carbon intensive vehicles. Small cars that could help reduce our emissions are basically all illegal in north america. Here's a couple examples.

4/ On the left is the original figure in the axios article. You can see that @TheHustle@twitter.com used the same truck sketches found in the axios article, but they distorted their length to fit with their false cab proportion numbers. This creates a very misleading figure.

3/ @TheHustle@twitter.com's figure made the mistake of using data for interior cab space to refer to cab space + hood space. Creating a false percentage number considering their figure clearly labels the hood space as "cab".

Here are the floorplans. This is the Atrio building in Zurich.

I love the personal lobby in front the kitchen. I like the idea of walking down the external corridor and seeing your neighbors cook supper, perhaps they might even invite you for supper as they see you walk down!

This is a great example of a newly built apartment building with a pro-social design. I'm pretty sure this one would even be legal to build in North America!

I loved staying in my friend's apartment building in Germany as it had 2 beautiful spiral staircases. They served as the main socializing space. For example, neighbours would have morning coffee together before going to work. I wish we had more pro-social apartment design in NA.

Does something like this exist in North America? Basically a large public square surrounded by restaurants that use part of the space for outdoor dinning?

This is for all my reply guys who claim to be special snowflakes that use their roofless minivans for work stuff 💅