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.

  • norimee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I don’t know if I would dare to drive them on american streets with all these oversized and overly powerful cars.

    In Europe we always had a tendency to smaller city cars. There is a huge market for these smaller cars, that you never even had available to you in the US, because it never was profitable to offer small cars in America.

    I just imagined seeing a subcompact car like the Ford Ka or Fiat 500 on an US Highway and thats seriously meme worthy. In Europe these cars are totally normal and a fixed part of traffic since forever. From there the step to the EV minicars aren’t that big to be fair.