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@UltraMagnus @frizzo One thing we need to do is allow cities to ban personal vehicles over a certain size within their dense urban cores to cut down on crash danger, property damage, and congestion and other nuisances due to oversized vehicles parked where they don't fit. That way someone who lives an urban lifestyle could choose a minimalist car with less concern about mixing it up with monster trucks on their daily errands.
That sounds tricky to implement, but I'm not strictly opposed. I've always been more of the opinion that some streets should just be converted to people-only altogether, at least in my downtown (there's one street that gets closed to traffic once/week for the farmer's market anyways...).
In Europe there are quite a few cities that ban cars that don't meet certain emmission standards. Most big trucks likely fall under these bans, but it would also not hard to ban cars larger than a certain size.
These European citizens usually have exceptions for professional use and stuff like that, so that's not too hard to do either.
Same goes with pedestrian zones, which are also very common in most European cities.
@UltraMagnus @frizzo Particularly for 2+ car households, a family could trade one of their midsized sedans or SUVs for a kei car and use the bigger one when they go on a weekend road trip or one of them travels out of town on business.