Bonefishblues wrote:But they are less consumptive, safer for their driver and others, and handle better* than vehicles from previous generations don't they?
I'm not sure what the point is? I'm talking about choice right now, not choice several years ago. Old cars slowly disappear so that's good.
Bonefishblues wrote:I don't know why people choose them, maybe it is status, frankly I don't care and I don't see why others should.
I don't really care why they choose them, just that their choice is often trivial whilst it's effects aren't.
Bonefishblues wrote: I'm quite secure myself, so if someone chooses a Q7 or similar, so be it. Limiting choice on such grounds is a slippery slope IMHO.
We limit choices on all sorts of things. Most folk are happy we don't give you a choice of gun for example. Why should vehicles be any different?
Anyway I wouldn't stop folk having one, but they should be discouraged. The first thing I'd do is reduce the maximum weight that PLG covers and require extra licensing for anyone that wants (or actually needs) something heavier.
Bonefishblues wrote:*Like a truck? Some hyperbole here, perhaps?
A little. But they are designed to feel like cars when driven whilst in terms of physics behaving like trucks. Anecdotally I can point to a friend of mine who's now brain damaged because he drove it like a car, turns out they 'roll' over barriers quite easily, roll well down slopes and sink like a stone when they find a lake at the bottom. (A normal car wouldn't have rolled over the barrier).