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It’s same political show playing people’s fears. Same insanity with disabling nuclear power plants (ready to be downvoted!). Jealous people now will vote for the good party proposing to punish the bad riches with SUVs. SUVs are also problem number one during climate warming, another reason to ban them according latest headlines in German newspapers.

I was believer of the democracy, but this behavior of politicians is just ugly. Play with fears, go with the trend punishing riches and save the poor! That’s the recipe to win next elections. This is easy way! Providing laws for working from home and reducing traffic is beyond competency of these people.

Plus don’t forget aging population, I am always scared when I see these 75+ years olds driving big powerful cars. In fact I have friends in this age group and I would like to see them in a taxi instead with their own cars.

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SUVs do more damage to pedestrians and limit driver visibility of the road. Children can't be seen over the hood.

so my car seems to have some sort auto breaking on collision detection. The manual says it can detect pedestrians, cyclists and even dogs.

It doesn't actually work in practise?

Addition to the question, it was a Porsche SUV so it's definitely more expensive than regular car. So the safety features didn't work in case (assumed driver got epileptic seizure?)

> Children can't be seen over the hood.

That's not really a valid point - any child close enough to be invisible to a driver is far too close for the driver to avoid. A child more than a few feet away can easily be seen by the driver of an SUV, let alone a small oen like a Macan.

Small children get run over in parking lots at really low speeds.

And driveways, on-street parking, etc. Plenty of children have been crushed to death by vehicles traveling under 1 mph.

I bet this particular luxury SUV had all the cameras and park distance control system to see every child around.

So you’re decrying the political will to do something about SUVs and also saying that something must be done?

I think he's being sarcastic/putting up the opposing view points to his opinion? Phrasing seems like ESL speaker, so it might just be lost in translation.

Looks like he was saying that it's stupid to go against a weirdly shaped group like SUV drivers. Yet there're some problems with driving that are not related wether the car is SUV or not.

What’s wrong about SUVs? People love them, carmaker produce them. Tax heavy cars and powerful cars more, people will stop buying them. Tax more fuel, people will think twice before driving these 2 miles in the city. Very simple regulation.

What was your point? Is it now just playing with people's fears or do people have good reasons?

It’s all about politicians and how to get elected again. One group shouts “Ausländer raus”, the other group wants to ban SUVs. Same useless crap. Try building more dense and comfortable cities, people don’t drive cars because it’s fun. Especially in the cities! It takes me same amount time to go to the office by foot as go using public transportation. With a car I am 3x faster. And that makes obvious choice.

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