• Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Paris is apparently clamping down on this. If you want to drive what is essentially a truck into the city, you’ll get fucking reamed for parking

    Good idea

    • Spzi@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      reamed for parking

      It seems I’m learning a new word today; ‘reamed’ :D All the translations are kind of wild. I’m still not sure what it means. Could you circumscribe it in a sentence or two with other words in this context here? What happens when you want to park a truck in a city?

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      1 year ago

      God what a horrible way to think. Utterly selfish and deluded, not to mention showing your terrible driving skills 😂

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    While the size of the standard parking bay has remained static for decades, cars have been growing longer and wider in a phenomenon known as “autobesity”.

    There is growing debate about car size and road safety, after two eight-year-old girls, Selena Lau and Nuria Sajjad, died when a Land Rover crashed through a school fence in south-west London in July.

    The research also revealed that 27 models are too wide for drivers to comfortably open their doors when parked between two other cars.

    The Land Rover Discovery measures 2.073 metres wide, leaving a narrow 16.35cm space between the doors and the bay’s borders.

    Often nicknamed “Chelsea tractors”, their use in city centres has long been criticised, with some road safety campaigners calling for them to be banned in busy pedestrian areas.

    Campaigners have questioned why drivers need such large and dangerous cars in the city, particularly when dropping children off at school, with some going to extreme measures to get their message across.


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