Oh wow. They did the math.
Emotional support vehicles, lol
Gender Affirming
Pavement princesses. Will never haul a load heavier than some groceries, maybe a couple 2x4s, and the owner’s fat ass.
They really should be! They’re like cockroaches here in Alberta…they’re everywhere.
I know right, children are the worst
Since I live in a place where driving is necessary (Texas), I drive a smaller electric car.
From my perspective, even small SUVs are far too big. If I’m behind them at a light, I can’t see when the light changes.
I was recently surprised to learn that in other countries, they have popular versions of pickup trucks that are smaller than almost anything you can find here in the states.
Anybody who buys a vehicle that size in OP’s picture would have to be a sociopath. They do not consider how other people are affected by their selfish actions.
From my perspective, even small SUVs are far too big. If I’m behind them at a light, I can’t see when the light changes.
Have you tried stopping further back? Works with lorries too. Also means you have room to manoeuvre without reversing if the vehicle breaks down.
The general rule is that you should be able to see the rear tyres of the car in front. If you can’t, you’re too close.
Yeah, I’m learning to drive at the moment and my instructor tells me I should be able to see tyres on tarmac when stopping.
And a slice of tarmac just below/behind those tyres.
“the undercarriage” I ‘member from many moons ago (but not sure of modern advice)
Still think about some dashcam footage of an explosion on a highway. Some vehicles were able to make immediate U-turns.
I may not be prepared for <normal highly likely thing> but I am always ready to make an immediate U-turn if a meteor strikes traffic way down the road 🤷♂️ 😬
The only reason I need to see the light change is if the light is at an intersection with a lot of traffic so I can toot my horn at inattentive drivers more quickly.
So, it’s not particularly important, and often, those intersections need you to stay closer to the car in front of you, because especially in Texas, I think, probably 70-ish percent of drivers don’t know how to use lanes correctly. They line up in one lane leaving a second lane almost empty. So you have to pull forward to give more people behind you the chance to change into a good lane.
TLDR I want to see the light to help traffic move, but pulling forward can also help traffic move.
The thought of what America would be like if kei trucks were popular…
*fucking. You can say fucking on the internet. Don’t worry, we won’t tell your mommy.
I didn’t know, fuck you very much ! :-)
You’re fucking welcome.
I always get nervous whenever i see one of these new GM pickups cuz they are just wayy too tall.
And you know the driver’s not a bright spark.
If I recall my driver’s ed, most current “rules of the road” (such as leave a two second gap) are based around WW2 tank driving regulations.
I want to see your pic but I can’t download it or magnify it.
But how will I advertise how insecure I am about my small wiener if I can’t drive a monster with five gallons to the mile on diesel?
Don’t worry, yours is legally a prosthesis which is protected under the ADA
We should start packing nitroglycerin into kids backpacks to force drivers to be more careful. Sure, some kids would die unnecessarily but dead children seems to be a price Americans are very willing to pay.
Didn’t that other dude say something similar about gun deaths?
The solution will never be ending the obvious problem, but rather replacing windshields with giant LCDs using front mounted cameras or something.
I was genuinely going to ask, if this thing has a front camera for driving into a parking bay. Even if you lean forward and stretch your neck, you’ll hardly see the parking bay coming up…
I concur.
No more creepy mannequins.
yeah, I thought OP was struggling with some dark thoughts before I realized what sub it was.
Trying to ban them would be extraordinarily difficult. A potential solution would be to push to reclassify them as trucks, under trucking regulations (I’m unsure how this is done in the US). Once you need a tachograph and a requirement to keep driving records, it would cut back on sales. It also still allows “legitimate” usage. This would weaken the argument against the change.
Basically anything where you can’t see a 5 year old within 0.5m of your bumper should be under “truck” rules, not “car” rules.
For this purpose, it’s not a question of banning them, but adding pedestrian safety regulations. You can still build these monstrosities while also providing better visibility and less likelihood for victims to be run over.
It’s just banning the “wall” of the front. That’s only required as a style choice and style should not trump safety
I’ve actually been paying more attention lately since my brother bought a Chevy
BehemothSilverado EV. As a big and tall guy I’m used to being bigger than most people I encounter, but looking at the “wall” at the front of these vehicles, it is also well above my center of mass. I would also be thrown down and run over. It’s not just children but there really is no “big enough” to survive getting hit with those(And yes I will keep giving my brother a hard time. After All these years of owning a house and large property where he could have argued he needed a truck, he gets one after he gave up that property. He bought this monstrosity to commute alone and do road trips alone. Nothing to tow. Nothing to haul.)
“Nothing to to tow, nothing to haul.” is so typical. And when they do it’s something even a sedan could pull or a van would have been better for. And then they’ll claim they want winter safety even as I comfortably rip by them in a blizzard with my goddamn BRZ(partly because I actually bought winter tires and they think their frozen “all-terrain” tires are good enough).
I know a guy who’s like 250 lbs and like 3 feet wide at the shoulders and he has driven an early 2000s honda fit hatchback for two decades with a family of four. He has a work truck he borrows sometimes to haul things, which he does way more than anyone I know with a truck (farmworkers excluded). Nobody needs one of these shitty ass giant trucks.
100%! It’s all ego and/or stupidity. I’m 6’-5” and get in that BRZ no problem. People ask me how I fit and it’s like…”easily?”. It’s really not that big a deal!
Some old coworkers of mine rode motorcycles(most of us did, it was a bike shop) and the two sales guys who had been to the track once bought F-150s for the purpose(not a trailer, they were going to use the bed). The poorer parts guy had a little Ford Transit that fit his Ninja and the guy who made MotoGP parts on the side and raced semi-professionally had a Mercedez Metris that he could keep locked up tight. My Ninja just rode on a trailer when it needed to move.
We fixed the problem with SUV blindspots by putting rear view cameras on cars, I almost wonder if the solution here is more cameras. Front-facing would get much dirtier tho.
Maybe, but why not
- bumper must be a specific height
- headlights must be a specific height
- hood must be sloped so a standard driver can see X
- front face must be lower than center of mass for X, so they are more likely to go over than under
- hood must deform on pedestrian impact (I believe this is required in parts of Europe)
You can do all this to greatly improve survivability of your victims and it only impacts style choices. You can still drive your monstrosity while not killing other people
@BanMe @AA5B Cameras do nothing for people who are hit with the vehicle because the driver is operating it negligently or to reduce the environmental impact (in fact they increase it by using more energy & rare earth minerals). Cameras are a very expensive harm reduction strategy, not a full solution to the problem of oversized vehicles.
The solution is not buy these stupid vehicles.
I thought this was about the freaky little mankins, I was like “yeah they’re freaky, but banned is a bit harsh” then I saw that the background was a modern truck grille, not a building.
Oof yeah ban both
12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American pride!
Four wheel drive, smells like a steak and seats thirty-five!
No, never. That would scream mass transit, or the B(us) word. Unacceptable. Think of all the unclean, dirty people with darker skin that I would be forced to look at unfairly.
Seats four 400 lb men.
First time I sat in the passenger seat of one I was still shocked. it’s even more frustrating that if you actually need to tow something heavy you have no option to avoid this outside an older truck. Some manufacturer should clue in and advertise a 3/4 ton as that won’t make you kill the neighbor’s kid. And I want sightlines, not cameras.
