[autoexec]

There are valid non-commercial reasons for having trucks and SUVs, but most of the people I know who have them just like big vehicles. They'll say that when they are driving regular cars it's hard to see what's going on around them because of all the SUVs and trucks on the road and the higher headlights of trucks and cars are blinding. It doesn't seem to bother them that they create those same problems for everyone else.

[Spivak]

We're in a prisoner's dilemma situation and folks are acting rationally within it. Trying to blame the individual isn't likely to go anywhere. You can't control other people, only your response and this is what you can do. Without a law that forces coordination so we get back to the good outcome it will keep happening.

Sadly it's politically untenable in most (all?) the US not least of which because people will just buy trucks in other states that allow them.

[aziaziazi]

> Sadly it's politically untenable in most (all?) the US not least of which because people will just buy trucks in other states that allow them.

Couldn’t a state law decide what vehicle one can use on their road, instead of what one can buy?

[Spivak]

This is what Cali does with their emissions standards but it also seems like people who care worked around it by just registering their cars in other states. And I say this with all the love in the world, if there's any group of people who will massively inconvenience themselves to spite the government it's truck owners.