Mayor Mamdani wants to explore charging higher tolls for large passenger vehicles entering New York City. Trucks and SUVs are more dangerous, pollute more, d...
They also kill more children because visibility is shit.
He might want to make this toll expressly about that because the SUV loophole has pushed everyone intobuilding them, and there are small SUVs with visibility on par with cars, and monstrous SUVs with horrible visibility. You can’t realistically discourage people from buying SUVs in this market, but you could nudge them into buying smaller SUVs with better visibility.
They do more damage to the roads, are louder, and take up more space.
They also kill more children because visibility is shit.
He might want to make this toll expressly about that because the SUV loophole has pushed everyone intobuilding them, and there are small SUVs with visibility on par with cars, and monstrous SUVs with horrible visibility. You can’t realistically discourage people from buying SUVs in this market, but you could nudge them into buying smaller SUVs with better visibility.