This is an article that I originally read on cohost, written by the always great @victoria-scott, about the intersection of car design, fuel economy, and loopholes in policy:
It's been living in my head ever since I first read it, presumably back in April or May, and I had to spend a while trying to find it yesterday. I'm half posting this because it's worth your time to read and half because I know I'll want to find it again, and this seems like an easy way to catalogue things
fwiw i tag my ones of these #nire-bookmarks(-topic) so they're easy for me to find later. I've got another account if I want it to not show up on the tl but ime people are cool with and even like me sharing them to the tl
Ooh that's a great point! I know @nex3 uses a separate page (@nex3-reposts) but I guess I'll have to see how many of these I wind up sharing to fit the right tool for my needs
I really hope this confluence of laws gets fixed soon. I’m personally very much in favor of using the smallest vehicle that can do the job, so this has been horrifying to watch from a distance. I’m too broke to matter much for this discussion in practice though. This is also what killed the VW Beetle, I bet.
oh my god thank you so much! I appreciate it, sorry I missed the tag. I wrote it in April 2022 iirc, so that sounds about right; I wish that it was easier to find my old work on that site but it gets buried real fast.
