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Also, higher cars with huge grills, lower visibility, and thick A pillars have more capacity to severely injure and kill.

Solution is super simple though. Increase gas tax so that it costs $20 per gallon.

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I think the "punish all car drivers" thing will ultimately catch on. It seems to be becomming the popular opinion.

I think that's sad and damaging though. I suspect the people that are stacking up the big miles (using lots of gas) are people that can't afford to live in town and are trying to work their way up: trades/self-employed, delivery drivers, hire car drivers i.e. your junior nurse, handyman, school teacher or uber driver.

And most of them will never even be involved in a serious accident.

That some people are unacceptably poorer than others is unrelated to problems caused by excessively cheap gas.

The former problem is fixed via wealth transfers from rich to poor.

The high cars have the other downside of minimizing visibility around intersections when parked at corners. Pedestrians can't see cars coming and the cars can't see pedestrians coming. Usually the cars also can't see bikes coming down the road either.

I wish parking on busy corners would not be allowed at all

That is allowed in the US?

Usually not like right on the corner, parking aside if there is more than one lane a truck in to your left can easily block sight lines when trying to take a right turn or trying to pull out of a parking space.

it is a responsibility of localities. some places do have rules against it, but it isnt universal

for example, NYC:

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2015/02/27/the-new-york-city-par...

https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/parking-regulati...

see "t-intersections"

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