Electric Motor Vehicles

[theDJR]

@Shelton10

SUVs are great … you sit higher and have a better view of the road than in a sedan

What happens after everyone is driving an SUV?

[Backyard_Bomber]

@Joe

It feels like every 2nd car is a SUV.

They are a more practical use of the cars footprint space.

With kids, you’ve got more space for all their crap. Bikes in the back, going on holidays I can get away with packing a small carry on sized bag but my wife and 2 girls? It’s like we are leaving for good everytime we leave the house. I can’t fit half of what they bring in a traditional sedan.

Then there’s the trips to bunnings, etc.

[Backyard_Bomber]

@Houli_Dooli

biggest issue with self driving cars is rubbish and cleaning.

whose going to stop some slob spilling his coke or pizza over the seat. Then are you going to hop in the next one?
Also plus vandalism which has already been discussed.
how many bikes/ scooters are thrown in the river etc.

I think there will be internal cameras watching your every move. They have your credit card which will be billed if you leave rubbish behind or do any damage. The car would then drive back to a service point where cleaners would clean up any mess or mechanics would repair damage before the car went back out picking up passengers.

I guess that cars would also be scheduled to come back in for a clean check every x amount of time.

They would line up like a cab rank where cleaners who are paid minumum wage will clean an endless line of cars.

[Shelton10]

They all have a good view of the road.

[tinhillterror]

Give me a station wagon over anything the yanks call an SUV.

Handles better, looks better, carries just as much (probably more)

[Joe]

SUV’s absolutely have their place and advantages. Very hard to fit everything into a small car or sedan.

[Houli_Dooli]

@Bacchusfox

I would have thought safety and staying on the road are the biggest issue

they have addressed that already pretty much.

[Houli_Dooli]

we are currently hiring a everest, that has to be one of the poorest designed internally. is so big yet has so little space in the cabin.

[Shelton10]

I hired one for a week in Tasmania. I actually hired a small car, but they asked me if I wanted an upgrade and I said yes. I didn’t like it at all. It was just Mrs S and me, so cabin space wasn’t a problem, but I hated the way it handled; I felt like I was fighting it all the time.

[Houli_Dooli]

we had a cx9 but got upgraded too

[theDJR]

@Joe

Very hard to fit everything into a poorly designed small car or sedan or other vehicle.

Fixed.

e.g. I can put multiple Billy bookcases in my 4m Jazz

[Soulnet]

If efficiency for space and height was what people wanted those Japanese small vehicles would be popular.

[theDJR]

Unfortunately most people “want” a height race that leaves everyone worse off.

[tinhillterror]

@theDJR

e.g. I can put multiple Billy bookcases in my 4m Jazz

The only reason I can see this being a valid feature was if this were the ‘90s and you needed to take your whole CD collection with you.

[theDJR]

Well, I can’t fit a gridiron field in there, so Billys were the only remaining universal measurement.

[Soulnet]

No Olympic sized swimming pool comparison?

[theDJR]

They are definitely not a standard measurement.

No records for you!

[bigallan]

Hatchbacks do wonders on small cars.

[Alan_Noonan_10]

I think my EV6 is classified as an SUV, but I suppose you can put the back seats down (which would make it a hatchback). It’s certainly not a tall car.

[Soulnet]

I’ve now cried an Olympic size pool of tears.