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    7 months ago

    Tbf phones grew bigger at one point.

    Actually the display always grew bigger and the rest of it always grew smaller and at some point, the sum grew bigger

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      Yeah I was going to say, phones are currently growing bigger after hitting a sort of “peak small” lol.

      They’re getting so huge that it’s hard to find a small one without ordering an old model. I like to be able to see things and all but at a certain point they don’t fit comfortably in my pockets

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    7 months ago

    Poorly thought out government policy caused cars to get bigger, not over consumption. Over consumption is a problem with tech too.

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      It’s a mix of the CAFE laws and consumer habits based on decades of unsafe street design pushing consumers to larger vehicles which makes them feel safer and anyone outside them less safe, which makes them lean toward larger vehicles to match. Viscous cycle and arms race. Point being policy is part of it, but consumer behavior isn’t blameless.

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    7 months ago

    What I find the most funny and ironic personally is the fact that the old BMW looks like it has a lot more space for passengers than the new oversized one.

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      7 months ago

      Probably has less structure to the frame, smaller crumple zones, and probably no airbags in the pillars.

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    It doesn’t help that carmakers get incentivised to go big by fucked up fuel standards. Here in the US the CAFE standards were gutted during their creation to carve out looser standards for obese pickups and hummer-sized SUVs. The bigger they get even within a given segment, the less stringent the requirements are.

    https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution

    Plus people “feel safer” and all that other jazz when they drive them. It’s just… It’s so stupid to have to watch people continuing to chose shit like this.

    IMO it’s such a multi-faceted problem that at this point about the only thing that makes sense is to switch lanes (heh) and focus on other transit methods. More people will take transit or bike if it’s easier than parking their mile long farm vehicles in tight urban spaces and being helplessly fumigated by standstill traffic.

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    Safety standards caused passenger cars to get larger more than anything else (trucks got bigger because of weird fuel economy regulations).

    Roll back safety standards and we can have small cars again. It’s probably worth the amount of excess deaths it will create, but someone should do a study.