| Comment | If everyone does this though, you quickly run out of space for all the massive cars. It's a fairly good example of a [Tragedy of the Commons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons): something that may make sense and be a perfectly rational act for an individual given a range of options, but is a disaster for everyone in the aggregate.
In the UK and Europe we're still in the relative early stages of this trend but we're very much following the trajectory of the US car market, where each generation of cars is getting bigger and heavier. There's been research showing that the mass increase in SUVs is actually countering and nullifying any fuel efficiency gains too. On every front, from worse road safety for pedestrians, to increased road congestion, to impact on the climate, the hulking design of modern cars is a disaster. |
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