The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars

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The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars

Jared Bartman for Vox Dangerous, polluting SUVs and pickups took over America. Lawmakers are partly to blame. Cars, you might have noticed, have grown enormous. Low-slung station wagons are all but extinct on American roads, and even sedans have become an endangered species. (Ford, producer of the iconic Model T a century ago, no longer sells any sedans in its home market.) Bulky SUVs and pickup trucks — which have themselves steadily added pou…