These haven’t really invaded New Zealand yet, but I walked past a parked one once and the bonnet came up to my shoulders - I’m six foot tall.
These… things are a “clear threat” to fully-grown adults. They’re well beyond that for children.
Oh, they’re here. Our parking spaces aren’t big enough for American cars, so they park as far back as the curb will let them – you can see their towballs lining the paths like tripmines.
Gor a chuckle out of a ‘ute’ with the empty bed pulling a trailer with the tradie’s gear in it though. Awww, your two-cab lifestyle ute’s open bed too small for a 2x4 there buddy?
I drive a normal sized pickup and almost every day I come out of work I have that freakout moment where I think my car has been stolen because it is 100% completely hidden behind one of these kid killers some other person keeps parking next to my pickup.
Trucks don’t need to be that big. Half of them have extended cabs and shortened beds, which kind of kills the point of having a pickup truck. The full bed for hauling shit is the whole point.
Also, why would you condemn yourself to the pain of parking one of those wherever you go?
Also, they kill children.
Half of them have extended cabs and shortened beds,
Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it’s literally all of them at this point. Aside maybe from fleet sales and other special cases like that, I don’t think there are any pickup truck models in the US that are actually available with a regular cab anymore.
(The Slate truck is supposedly going to be regular cab, but it doesn’t count because it’s not out yet.)
Imported Kei trucks have the same bed length as the newest F150, if not a little longer.
6 ft beds are available, but you have to special order them made from the factory…
The full bed for hauling shit is the whole point.
Why not get a van though? You get much more carrying space that can also be converted into enough passenger space so that it’s basically a bus.
This is what happens when politicians create laws and never revisit them to make corrections. Im a pretty tall person and i was on a dealship lot walking amongst the trucks and the amount of them I couldn’t even see over was terrifying. How much bigger do these need to get before they start classifying them as big rigs?
In the US? I don’t think there is a width or height requirement for a Big Rig (something that requires a CDL). Vehicles cannot be over 102 inches wide, any anything over 80 inches wide requires some additional marker lights. Height, anything up to about 13 feet is fine and legal. Maximum length is 65 feet. CDL’s are generally for certain weight limits, (26000 lbs) not physical dimensions.
This isn’t a discovery, this is just one of the things men in US society decided to ignore the danger of and the rest of us dutifully complied.
This isn’t a discovery
No, but it’s a Range Rover, so close enough.
Are you going to four-wheel drop a joke like that in this conversation!!?
The ceo of gmc is a woman
They also sold 884k full size trucks. How does the CEO being a woman change that the vast majority of these purchases are men?
How does the ceo impact how a company designs their product?
Gee, I dont know.
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Business person makes business decision, must be because they’re a woman
I’m too tired for this shit
I mean… wasn’t that the argument of the original comment but reversed?
I’m providing evidence that it isn’t just men making these choices.
No, I’m not entertaining this anymore - it is overwhelmingly men at the core of the truck problem in the U.S.
A woman literally runs one of these companies that designs and builds these monstrosities. I’m sorry that doesn’t align with your feelings on the matter.
Men buy them, sure. But a woman helps them get there.
checkmate feminists
makes it about sex
gets refuted
goes silly mode to deflect
You will never escape samsara.
Hey, we are boiling together in the pot after all Rigatoni eh?
do not make me hungry for squirrel pasta
This isn’t a gotcha. It’s a literal fact.
People of all types - brown, white, black, man, woman, + - contribute to the problem.
Yes, the truck owners are majority men, but who makes the ads, who designs the trucks, who approves the designs?
“Leftists” will stop at nothing to be sexist as long as its against the “in” group. For some reason, we are ok with that.
This reminds me of a B52 meme… On the right side is the conservative B52 with Nazi and confederate symbols. On the left is the Liberal B52 with feminist and LGBTQ+ symbols … Both B52’s are raining hellfire on some minority because capitalist dictatorship masquerading as “democracy”.
This community is “FuckCars”, not “FuckMen”. There are plenty of men here who are here because “Fuck Cars”. I don’t think that alienating the men of this community will do any good.
lol do you think I am powerful enough to alienate entire categories of men? Who do you think I am some kind of god destroyer?
I’m afraid to be here because you said something about my big truck. Gonna have to add a punsiher skull and tattered “thin blue line flag” silkscreen to my back window to reinforce my manliness.
lights up cigar rolled with rainbow leaves
loads chain in and cocks DEI-A 50 Cal
Better hope you hid your heart deep enough in your toxic masculinity for these puppies not to blast through.
pets cute dog walking by
WHERE WAS I IN MY MONOLOGUE damnt I always do this
Line!
Alienation can result from actions of individuals, yes.
I am sexist. Do you really think i am contributing to the problem? wow.
There is little to no self-awareness for people like this.
Yeah. I mean, I am a feminist. I know that a lot of problems are caused by the patriarchy, and yes, men in general sometimes.
But car-dependency is not one of them. And conflating them for no reason just hurts both causes.
You hurt his big manly feelings.
OK BOYS LISTEN UP WE GOTTA RAISE THE HOOD HIGHER NOW IT IS OUR ONLY OPTION
Unfortunately that disease isn’t exclusive to the US.
As an adult I can attest to some vehicles being way too damn high up for their own good. I’m slightly below average height for my area and while out shopping I walked by a truck with a grill that came up above my height. If the driver was in and decided to get rolling, there would definitely have been a good chance of I was directly in front of it that I’d be in the hospital.
If the drive would be unable to see me when I’m right up against the grill, a small child would probably stand no chance a few feet away. The people with vehicles like that definitely should to stop stroking their 1mm peter like it’s a 2 footer and think of other people’s safety.
“Have the kids tried growing” - MAGAcuck
My favorite part about this is that many of these Sherman tank drivers come speeding behind me and then when they’re a car’s length from me, veer over into another lane, leaving the car behind them(who had been matching their speed) with the nasty little surprise of my car, which had been completely invisible to them a second ago.
They do that shit on purpose to piss off the car behind them for daring to “tailgate”. I’ve had former friends and family who brag about it.
Literally putting a random person’s life on the line for a small bit of petty revenge at a perceived slight.
No shit?
Regards
The rest of the world
Unfortunately this is not only a UK problem. Most SUVs as you find them all around the world are bigger threats to humans of all ages…
EU regulation, babe
I dunno, I think the Yanks still outdo us.
This is all caused by the CAFE act of 1992-1993.
Considering that this article is about the UK/Europe, that causation is pretty indirect.
Normally I would agree, but even the European auto makers have been following these horrible “guidelines.”
Bonnets close to eye level and long bonnets are a shit combination.
I’m quite high up in a Mercedes Sprinter, but I’m not mowing down kids because the bonnet is well before eye line and goes down on a steeper angle.
And this is just another reason for me to get a lowering kit with my slate truck. It both gets me a little closer to the sedan road height I’m already used to, and also incidentally prevents kids from being obscured.
I’ll take an unplanned bonus any day.
Gotta love American exceptionalism … and then when other countries copy the U.S., you kinda gotta facepalm.
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Old sedans for the win
I read bonnet as bayonet and thought we had a mad Max apocalypse
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The point is that you can’t see if you’re running over a child due to the height of the Overcompensator 4000.
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What a weird hill to die on.
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Lemme try - you drive one of these things up to a streetlight, with a crosswalk. Busy downtown street, large number of pedestrians on the sidewalks. It’s a red light, so you stop and wait for your turn. Plenty of pedestrians make use of the crosswalk.
Now the light turns green. How can you be certain everyone’s cleared the crosswalk, and there’s nobody in front of you? After all, you can’t see the ground for several yards in front of your truck! Can you be certain nobody slipped and fell? No kids got away from their parents? Nobody in a wheelchair is struggling with a pothole? You might be pretty sure you’ve accounted for everyone, but you’re literally risking someone else’s life on this “pretty sure” every time you go through one of these lights!
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It’s usually driveways and right on reds. You pull up to the light on your Brodozer Yosemite edition, with the big knobbly tires, factory lift kit, and the (man)hood extension. It’s a red light and you want to make a right, because every second you spend behind the wheel of your 110k overgrown minivan alternative, not driving up the ass of the Kia Pimento in front of you fills you with murderous rage. You look right, and there are no visible people, look left, and there is a 1 second gap in traffic, a perfect amount of space for your extended crew-cab single occupant truck to jam in. You floor it and crank the wheel around 4 times to full lock. You don’t even feel it as all 9500lbs of your truck crushes the life out of 2 teens who waited for the pedestrian symbol before walking their bikes across the road. You didn’t see them because looking from the driver’s seat, over the 6ft long and 6ft high hood puts your minimum view distance of 2 kids at 22ft away. Looks like you’re gonna be late to pick up your order of Crocs and socks from JCP at the mall.
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