>>17655
It was only to show how low the USA got regarding small cars.
>the demographic small cars were intended for have moved on to ridesharing and public transportation
blatant lie.
>Most cities that compact cars thrived in now pass regulations to disincentivise car ownership
<big cities means lots of people
<lots of people means potentially lots of cars
<lots of cars means traffic hell and no available parking spaces
>people are not having cars in big cities anymore!
I can't help you if you can't comprehend how inadapted individual cars are in large cities.
It's not about compact cars: see New York. It's about crowded space. And you know what? Crowded spaces means that buying a smaller car to park faster. Your cause/consequence rethoric is broken here. It's not because a city have smaller cars that they wants cars out: it's because there's too many cars.
<Because of the "arms race" phenomenon with increasing SUV market share, it's borderline suicidal to drive anything smaller than a crossover in the United States.
You're going completely away from the rest of your paragraph but you're right: big cars kill smaller cars. Litterally. Hopefully this doesn't happen too much in Europe (it does, but buyers would rather buy cars looking like a SUV (crossovers) than real SUVs.).