3167: Car Size - Revision history

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137.112.210.138: /* Explanation */ if 'for cyclists' safety' with single quotes line-breaks in the wrong place it turns into a garden-path sentence and I happened to have the wrong window width

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‎Explanation: if 'for cyclists' safety' with single quotes line-breaks in the wrong place it turns into a garden-path sentence and I happened to have the wrong window width

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Gbisaga: Clubs

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Clubs

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82.132.245.223: /* Explanation */ It does not generally cost less to install additional off-road facility for bikes, compared to continuing to let them use the existing road-space along with all other vehicles. Exceptions, aside, 'practical' is often a subjective view.

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‎Explanation: It does not generally cost less to install additional off-road facility for bikes, compared to continuing to let them use the existing road-space along with all other vehicles. Exceptions, aside, 'practical' is often a subjective view.

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 ==Transcript==
 :[The comic is made up of four panels, beginning with Cueball talking to Megan and then alternating with each panel, both of them surrounded by progressively larger vehicles.]
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 :Cueball: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don't get the biggest one, I'm putting my family at risk.
-:[Panel four is labeled "Soon." Cueball and Megan are standing to the left of a massive SUV with metal plates bolted to its side, spiked panels attached to the front and back, spiked/off-road tires and two giant spiked clubs hanging from a rotor on top of the car. An even more massive spiked club is visible coming from the left of the panel, presumably attached to a similar (even larger) car. Megan has both arms on her side.]
+:[Panel four is labeled "Soon." Cueball and Megan are standing to the left of a massive SUV with metal plates bolted to its side, spiked panels attached to the front and back, spiked/off-road tires and two giant spiked clubs hanging from a rotor on top of the car. An even more massive spiked club is visible coming from the left of the panel, presumably attached to a similar (even larger) car. Megan has raised her arms slightly.]
 :Megan: If I don't install more whirling spike clubs, I'll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

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	==Explanation==		==Explanation==
−	~~{{incomplete\|This page was created BY A CAR WITH AN ICBM. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}~~
	This comic demonstrates one reason why vehicles have gotten progressively larger and more powerful, due to a type of {{w\|arms race}} between drivers. When vehicles of different sizes share the road, passengers in the smaller ones will usually be more at risk in collisions, since the body construction and lower inertia generally provide less protection. So, for safety reasons, people have an incentive to buy larger cars. According to the comic, this causes a cycle of cars for increasingly selfish owners, which reaches a point of absurdity due to the cost and mass of giant cars, implying a never-ending vicious cycle.		This comic demonstrates one reason why vehicles have gotten progressively larger and more powerful, due to a type of {{w\|arms race}} between drivers. When vehicles of different sizes share the road, passengers in the smaller ones will usually be more at risk in collisions, since the body construction and lower inertia generally provide less protection. So, for safety reasons, people have an incentive to buy larger cars. According to the comic, this causes a cycle of cars for increasingly selfish owners, which reaches a point of absurdity due to the cost and mass of giant cars, implying a never-ending vicious cycle.

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 In the "Soon" panel, Randall has extrapolated this to adding spiked armor and weaponry to large cars, and other drivers will need to outdo this to compete on the road. This scenario is reminiscent of the vehicles from the {{w|Mad Max}} franchise, and of the [https://wackyraces.fandom.com/wiki/The_Slag_Brothers Slag Brothers] from Wacky Races. Unfortunately, the whirling spike club scenario is problematic (not just in terms of injury or death but even in the happy path): if all the cars on the road have whirling spike clubs, as soon as your car comes in contact, your club will be destroyed or at least damaged. This will make you prey for the cars who have not yet been in an accident.
-The title text views this from the opposite perspective. The owner of a large car is worried that they'll kill people in small cars, so believes that small car drivers shouldn't drive on the road at all and should be restricted to the sidewalk for their own safety. Driving the smallest cars in pedestrian spaces is obviously absurd, but follows the prior trend of separating bikes from car traffic 'for cyclists' safety' and often having them share pedestrian spaces due to 'practical' constraints. While this reduces conflicts between cyclists and drivers of motor vehicles, it results in cyclists and pedestrians becoming an inconvenience and danger to each other instead. In the car-centric view, it is not worth creating separate infrastructure for bicycles and similar small vehicles, so the title text's extension of the trend is to classify small cars as bike-like vehicles, even though this endangers both smaller vehicles and pedestrians.
+The title text views this from the opposite perspective. The owner of a large car is worried that they'll kill people in small cars, so believes that small car drivers shouldn't drive on the road at all and should be restricted to the sidewalk for their own safety. Driving the smallest cars in pedestrian spaces is obviously absurd, but follows the prior trend of separating bikes from car traffic "for cyclists' safety" and often having them share pedestrian spaces due to "practical" constraints. While this reduces conflicts between cyclists and drivers of motor vehicles, it results in cyclists and pedestrians becoming an inconvenience and danger to each other instead. In the car-centric view, it is not worth creating separate infrastructure for bicycles and similar small vehicles, so the title text's extension of the trend is to classify small cars as bike-like vehicles, even though this endangers both smaller vehicles and pedestrians.
 Biking on sidewalks is illegal in some jurisdictions, with a greater number banning small powered vehicles like e-bikes. Where either kind of bike is allowed, laws generally require that the rider take precautions like riding at reasonable speeds when near pedestrians, alerting pedestrians when passing, and yielding to pedestrians when needed. Small, low-speed carts do routinely share some larger pedestrian spaces, such as golf courses and large airports, but even these would have trouble safely passing on regular sidewalks. Smaller single-occupant electric vehicles (mobility scooters) frequently share pedestrian spaces, but their limited speeds reduce the frequency and potential severity of impacts.

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 {{incomplete transcript|Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
-:[The comic is made up of four panels, Beginning with Cueball talking to Megan and then alternating with each panel, both of them surrounded by progressively larger vehicles.]
+:[The comic is made up of four panels, beginning with Cueball talking to Megan and then alternating with each panel, both of them surrounded by progressively larger vehicles.]
 :[Panel one is labeled "100 years ago." Cueball and Megan are standing with a bicycle to the left of them and an old-fashioned car to their right.]
 :Cueball: It's too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too.
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 :Cueball: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don't get the biggest one, I'm putting my family at risk.
-:[Panel four is labeled "Soon." Cueball and Megan are standing to the left of a massive SUV with metal plates bolted to its side, spiked panels attached to the front and back, spiked tires, and two giant spiked clubs hanging from a rotor on top of the car. Another massive spiked club is visible coming from the left of the panel, presumably attached to a similar car. Megan has both arms on her side.]
+:[Panel four is labeled "Soon." Cueball and Megan are standing to the left of a massive SUV with metal plates bolted to its side, spiked panels attached to the front and back, spiked/off-road tires and two giant spiked clubs hanging from a rotor on top of the car. An even more massive spiked club is visible coming from the left of the panel, presumably attached to a similar (even larger) car. Megan has both arms on her side.]
 :Megan: If I don't install more whirling spike clubs, I'll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

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 {{incomplete transcript|Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
-:[The comic is made up of four panels, each featuring Cueball talking to Megan or vice versa, both of them surrounded by progressively larger vehicles.]
+:[The comic is made up of four panels, Beginning with Cueball talking to Megan and then alternating with each panel, both of them surrounded by progressively larger vehicles.]
 :[Panel one is labeled "100 years ago." Cueball and Megan are standing with a bicycle to the left of them and an old-fashioned car to their right.]
 :Cueball: It's too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too.
@@ Line 32: / Line 32: @@
 :Cueball: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don't get the biggest one, I'm putting my family at risk.
-:[Panel four is labeled "Soon." Cueball and Megan are standing to the left of a massive SUV with metal plates bolted to its side, spiked panels attached to the front and back, and two giant spiked clubs hanging from a rotor on top of the car. Another massive spiked club is visible coming from the left of the panel, presumably attached to a similar car. Megan has both arms on her side.]
+:[Panel four is labeled "Soon." Cueball and Megan are standing to the left of a massive SUV with metal plates bolted to its side, spiked panels attached to the front and back, spiked tires, and two giant spiked clubs hanging from a rotor on top of the car. Another massive spiked club is visible coming from the left of the panel, presumably attached to a similar car. Megan has both arms on her side.]
 :Megan: If I don't install more whirling spike clubs, I'll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

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 ==Explanation==
 {{incomplete|This page was created BY A CAR WITH AN ICBM. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
-This comic demonstrates one reason why vehicles have gotten progressively larger and more powerful, due to a type of {{w|arms race}} between drivers. When vehicles of different sizes share the road, passengers in the smaller ones will usually be more at risk in collisions, since the body construction and lower inertia generally provide less protection. So, for safety reasons, people have an incentive to buy larger cars. According to the comic, this causes a cycle of increasingly larger cars, which reaches a point of absurdity due to the cost and speed of giant cars.
+This comic demonstrates one reason why vehicles have gotten progressively larger and more powerful, due to a type of {{w|arms race}} between drivers. When vehicles of different sizes share the road, passengers in the smaller ones will usually be more at risk in collisions, since the body construction and lower inertia generally provide less protection. So, for safety reasons, people have an incentive to buy larger cars. According to the comic, this causes a cycle of cars for increasingly selfish owners, which reaches a point of absurdity due to the cost and mass of giant cars, implying a never-ending vicious cycle.
-In the "Soon" panel, Randall has extrapolated this to adding spiked armor and weaponry to large cars, and other drivers will need to outdo this to compete on the road. This scenario is reminiscent of the vehicles from the {{w|Mad Max}} franchise, and of the [https://wackyraces.fandom.com/wiki/The_Slag_Brothers Slag Brothers] from Wacky Races. This would almost certainly never happen in real life,{{cn}} as there would be no reason at all to introduce weaponry to cars in the first place ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nJtXiK7bPk/ unless you're driving a Renault Twingo]). Rather, it is meant to make the reader realize that buying larger vehicles purely for the perceived safety is a never-ending vicious cycle.
+In the "Soon" panel, Randall has extrapolated this to adding spiked armor and weaponry to large cars, and other drivers will need to outdo this to compete on the road. This scenario is reminiscent of the vehicles from the {{w|Mad Max}} franchise, and of the [https://wackyraces.fandom.com/wiki/The_Slag_Brothers Slag Brothers] from Wacky Races.
 The title text views this from the opposite perspective. The owner of a large car is worried that they'll kill people in small cars, so believes that small car drivers shouldn't drive on the road at all and should be restricted to the sidewalk for their own safety. Driving the smallest cars in pedestrian spaces is obviously absurd, but follows the prior trend of separating bikes from car traffic 'for cyclists' safety' and often having them share pedestrian spaces due to 'practical' constraints. While this reduces conflicts between cyclists and drivers of motor vehicles, it results in cyclists and pedestrians becoming an inconvenience and danger to each other instead. In the car-centric view, it is not worth creating separate infrastructure for bicycles and similar small vehicles, so the title text's extension of the trend is to classify small cars as bike-like vehicles, even though this endangers both smaller vehicles and pedestrians.

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−	~~SIX SEVEN~~	+	{{comic
		+	\| number = 3167
		+	\| date = November 12, 2025
		+	\| title = Car Size
		+	\| image = car_size_2x.png
		+	\| imagesize = 348x754px
		+	\| noexpand = true
		+	\| titletext = 'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.'
		+	}}
		+
		+	==Explanation==
		+	{{incomplete\|This page was created BY A CAR WITH AN ICBM. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
		+	This comic demonstrates one reason why vehicles have gotten progressively larger and more powerful, due to a type of {{w\|arms race}} between drivers. When vehicles of different sizes share the road, passengers in the smaller ones will usually be more at risk in collisions, since the body construction and lower inertia generally provide less protection. So, for safety reasons, people have an incentive to buy larger cars. According to the comic, this causes a cycle of increasingly larger cars, which reaches a point of absurdity due to the cost and speed of giant cars.
		+
		+	In the "Soon" panel, Randall has extrapolated this to adding spiked armor and weaponry to large cars, and other drivers will need to outdo this to compete on the road. This scenario is reminiscent of the vehicles from the {{w\|Mad Max}} franchise, and of the [https://wackyraces.fandom.com/wiki/The_Slag_Brothers Slag Brothers] from Wacky Races. This would almost certainly never happen in real life,{{cn}} as there would be no reason at all to introduce weaponry to cars in the first place ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nJtXiK7bPk/ unless you're driving a Renault Twingo]). Rather, it is meant to make the reader realize that buying larger vehicles purely for the perceived safety is a never-ending vicious cycle.
		+
		+	The title text views this from the opposite perspective. The owner of a large car is worried that they'll kill people in small cars, so believes that small car drivers shouldn't drive on the road at all and should be restricted to the sidewalk for their own safety. Driving the smallest cars in pedestrian spaces is obviously absurd, but follows the prior trend of separating bikes from car traffic 'for cyclists' safety' and often having them share pedestrian spaces due to 'practical' constraints. While this reduces conflicts between cyclists and drivers of motor vehicles, it results in cyclists and pedestrians becoming an inconvenience and danger to each other instead. In the car-centric view, it is not worth creating separate infrastructure for bicycles and similar small vehicles, so the title text's extension of the trend is to classify small cars as bike-like vehicles, even though this endangers both smaller vehicles and pedestrians.
		+
		+	Biking on sidewalks is illegal in some jurisdictions, with a greater number banning small powered vehicles like e-bikes. Where either kind of bike is allowed, laws generally require that the rider take precautions like riding at reasonable speeds when near pedestrians, alerting pedestrians when passing, and yielding to pedestrians when needed. Small, low-speed carts do routinely share some larger pedestrian spaces, such as golf courses and large airports, but even these would have trouble safely passing on regular sidewalks. Smaller single-occupant electric vehicles (mobility scooters) frequently share pedestrian spaces, but their limited speeds reduce the frequency and potential severity of impacts.
		+
		+	==Transcript==
		+	{{incomplete transcript\|Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
		+
		+	:[The comic is made up of four panels, each featuring Cueball talking to Megan or vice versa, both of them surrounded by progressively larger vehicles.]
		+	:[Panel one is labeled "100 years ago." Cueball and Megan are standing with a bicycle to the left of them and an old-fashioned car to their right.]
		+	:Cueball: It's too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too.
		+
		+	:[Panel two is labeled "50 years ago." Cueball and Megan are standing between a small hatchback (right) and a slightly larger sedan (left).]
		+	:Megan: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one.
		+
		+	:[Panel three is labeled "Today." Cueball and Megan are standing between a large SUV (left) and an even larger SUV (right).]
		+	:Cueball: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don't get the biggest one, I'm putting my family at risk.
		+
		+	:[Panel four is labeled "Soon." Cueball and Megan are standing to the left of a massive SUV with metal plates bolted to its side, spiked panels attached to the front and back, and two giant spiked clubs hanging from a rotor on top of the car. Another massive spiked club is visible coming from the left of the panel, presumably attached to a similar car. Megan has both arms on her side.]
		+	:Megan: If I don't install more whirling spike clubs, I'll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...
		+
		+	{{comic discussion}}<noinclude>
		+	[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
		+	[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]