In London, England, where the roads are narrow, the parking spaces are limited and we have plenty of availability of vans that can actually fit things in, we still get these a*holes with their unnecessary large pick up trucks made for a road system completely different to ours…

These spaces are wider than usual and long enough to fit them but they still have to park like w*nkers blocking the only footpath around!

I mean, I have a 5 door hatchback and know that my car overhangs the back wheels, as does any primary school kid drawing a car…

  • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    5·
    21 hours ago

    There are a few comments I’d like to reply to, but I’ll stick it all into this separate one, in no particular order.

    1. I do not agree with general amounts of anger this or any other fuck<insert thing> sub promotes.
    2. Driver’s licence is given to literally anyone who breaths (or their relative, pretending to be them).
    3. As such, driving skill in UK is abysmal.
    4. Parking spaces and lane widths have not kept up with vehicle size increases. Part of those increases is just fashion, but a lot of it is caused by ever tightening safety regulations. For reference - I drive an old 5 series and fit everywhere just fine. The newer 3 series are the same size cars than mine. See here and here. It’s truly insane.
    5. This guy obviously cannot tell the size of the vehicle.
    6. Looks are subjective. I, personally, like the way a Ford Raptor looks, but I’d only consider it for offroading as it drives like absolute shit on regular roads. I like driving too much to give up handling for looks.
    7. Driving should be treated as a privilege, not a right.
    8. There’s already way too much regulation for all the tiniest, dumbest things around. I can’t stand how the general consensus seems to be “I don’t want to think for myself, regulate it on my behalf”. Just to clarify - I’m not against all regulation.
    9. The trailer hitch argument seems strange to me - must be an american thing. Permanent hitches are very much a thing here, one does not simply get rid of it during parking. Yes, electric ones exist - my car even has one - but not all cars do, especially older ones.
    10. Yes, parking spaces having wheel stoppers at whatever distance is deemed acceptable would help, but this goes back to outsourcing thinking to someone else. How about you get to know the bloody dimensions of you own car?
    11. On top of that - getting out of the car, checking if it fits into the spot and getting back in to fix if it doesn’t is not a crime. One simply needs to care.
      • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        5·
        20 hours ago

        Yes, I can. 3 caveats:

        • I try to not lock myself into a self created bubble
        • I want to believe in free speech as much as I can get away with morally
        • As an instance admin I cannot afford to let dodgy crap slip through just because I blocked a community

        Lemmy is really crap on the admin side.

    • Dicska@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      I’m from a different country, so the rules might not be the same, but we have a rule to always leave a certain amount of space on the pavement, regardless what you do. Isn’t there a thing in UK driving rules (or whatever it’s called)?

      • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        2·
        21 hours ago

        Not sure, I exchanged my EU licence to a UK one years ago, haven’t checked for such a specific thing, tbh. Again, it’s never affected me - parking a car is really not difficult, as long as one gives a crap.