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> People do not consider the weight of the vehicle when purchasing. No one cares. And it's not something we should need to consider.

Of course they don’t care. Because it’s only others being hurt. Which is why we need to push the problem back to the source. We shouldn’t allow deadly machines to be operated around urban spaces. If you need one out on the farm, that’s fine. But it’s not appropriate to take in to the city.

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Who is being hurt? Deadly machines? This is a very unpleasant curmudgeonly take. The context of this discussion is regarding road use and wear and tear.

Have you taken a look at the road fatalities in the US recently. People are quite literally being killed at an increasing rate. And these oversized cars are directly more deadly.

You might not care about putting lives over appearances. But others do.

I notice that you submitted a link to encourage deflating the tires of large vehicles.

> Our aim is to make it impossible to own a huge polluting 4x4 in the world’s urban areas. To do that, we need people everywhere deflating 4x4 tyres, week-in, week-out.

absolutely unhinged activities.

The Tyre Extinguishers are doing gods work. Governments are failing to act against car killings which are driven by oversized SUVs and trucks. So some push back from the public is needed. Hopefully the laws soon catch up and ban these vehicles.

Sick people

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