Regulatory loopholes are allowing monstrous 2.5t pick-up trucks to come to the UK for the first time, bypassing basic environmental and safety regulations for cars. A thread 🧵 www.thetimes.com/article/dbbf...
Dodge is launching a right-hand drive model of a car so tall that drivers can’t see young children in front of them
If a chief medical officer said " 100 people have already died from this disease but we still have a chance to save 1,000 more', the headline would not be "IT'S TOO LATE TO STOP PEOPLE DYING FROM DISEASE" Imo this defaulting to fatalism is just part of defending the status quo
Oil and gas firms are the *bad guys*, hell bent on destroying our kids’ lives for even more money than they already have. These companies should be pariahs, their executives unable to appear in public without being boo’d off stage. They shouldn’t be allowed in to student jobs fairs
"BP has abandoned a target to cut oil and gas output by 2030 as CEO Murray Auchincloss scales back the firm's energy transition strategy to regain investor confidence, three sources with knowledge of the matter said" www.reuters.com/business/ene...
The London-listed company is now targeting several new investments in the Middle East and the Gulf of Mexico to boost its oil and gas output.
This (along with the fact that the CO2 emissions per km from one of these behemoths are equivalent to driving TWO vauxhall corsas) is why I feel entitled to be super judgey about urban SUV driving. It’s just a big F you to the rest of society. Then they pearl clutch over being judged 🤷♂️
Perhaps only to the extent that she was driving a wildly disproportionately large, heavy powerful vehicle through a residential area of the city merely to signal social status rather than for any practical purpose. Car manufacturers and regulators are responsible for setting up these conditions tho
The situation is not satisfactorily resolved from the parents’ POV but I’m not across the latest
I finally got round to listening to Laura Laker’s Streets Ahead interview with transport secretary Lou Haigh today, and it really is *exceptionally* good & encouraging. If Lou manages to pull off half of the aspirations here it will be profoundly transformative 🤞 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
Podcast Episode · Streets Ahead · 20/08/2024 · 51m
Case in point: The children tragically killed by a woman who purportedly had a seizure at the wheel and ploughed her car into a school playground in Wimbledon would still be alive today if she had not been driving a Land Rover Defender, which was expressly designed to mount kerbs at speed
Aiming squarely for Britain's most insecure men, Dodge is releasing a UK version of a gas guzzling truck with a hood so tall you can't see a child standing in front of it.
These vehicles are a risk to everyone, especially children. They are too large, lethally designed and have a huge environmental impact. Regulations in UK and EU have to urgently be updated to stop more of these being driven on our roads.
Dodge is launching a right-hand drive model of a car so tall that drivers can’t see young children in front of them