Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs?
www.theguardian.com
They have higher emissions, hog roadspace and are more dangerous for other road users. Yet SUVs are selling better than ever. As calls for curbs increase, some people are taking matters into their own hands

It’s midnight on the edge of Clapham Common in early September. The streets are eerily quiet as a shadowy figure in black shirt, shorts and baseball cap emerges from the common. He is wearing a red face mask, his features, except for some blond locks, hidden from view.

  • HelloThere@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    1 year ago

    As is covered in the article, explaining the environmental impact of SUVs to SUV owners does not change their mind or encourage them to get a different car; it is effectively ignored.

    So that is where ideas like the deflators come in, you make it more inconvenient, maybe that will work where polite discussion did not.