I nearly got run over yesterday by a truely huge 4x4 vehicle I'm 5'10" and this monster came between my hips and upper rib cage, I know that round here a lot of people need big 4x4's for work and for just getting around if they live in a remote bit of the island with poor roads, but do we really need them, should they be discouraged?
The latest thing seems to be electric range/land rovers, all huge and heavy, the damage done by these cars to our roads is increasing and because the roads are in a poor state people feel they need a 4x4 to cope with them, some of the pot holes are real car killers. I'm concerned about the size of so many of these newer vehicles, they're so huge and people are so careless, they don't fit in normal parking spaces and if I get one on either side of me in a car park I can't see past them and have to slowly drive out hoping for the best that theres nothing whizzing up behind or in front of me.
I have a skoda fabia, a perfectly normal small family car, and I often feel bullied by these huge things, I don't feel that I'm visible and it scares me, I could fit my car inside some of these huge things.
I'm seriously thinking it's time to have some sort of restrictions on the size of vehicles that you can have on a normal driving licence and that maybe there should be a seperate licence catagory for cars over a certain size like there is for motor bikes
