Longer cars will lead to fewer on-street parking spaces

Via Dense Discovery #396 with the 14% link going here

I asked Claude for a fact-check:

Verdict: the figures check out as a fair summary of the T&E/Clean Cities “carspreading” report (published this past couple of weeks), though it collapses a range into a single “14%” headline number.

I enjoyed the term “carspreading”!

The report says:

The average length of newly sold cars is increasing by 1.2 cm every year, according to the report which analysed vehicle growth since the year 2000. Their total height is rising by 0.5 cm annually, the study also finds. Earlier studies showed that new cars also grow 0.5 cm wider each year, on average, while their bonnet heights increase by 0.5 cm annually.

Finding a car that fits our parking space comfortably is already a challenge. This will make it all the harder.