Please help keeping these monsters of our streets. It will save lives.
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It’d be nice to get them out of America, too.
And Canada. They’re everywhere here. Idiots only using them to commute to work every day.
“But I need it” Fuck off.
Here’s a due with a fukken Dodge RAM using it mainly to drive his daughter to school. It’s ~800 meters, and there are hundreds of little kids walking that same route. Way to go, you lazy idiot.
And Greenland. America as in North America and South America. Also do Afro-Eurasia and Oceania please. Don’t forget Antarctica.
Yes, please.
I’m a big bearded white guy and look like I should drive a stupid truck, or at least I would look that way with some shades and a baseball cap. Where I live is pretty white, surrounded by rural areas, so the trucks are everyyywhere. I doubt I need to convince anybody on here that these vehicles are bad, but I have a couple of observations from my perspective here in real america(/s).
I have a couple of friends who are those rare truck owners due to legitimate need because they are literal farmers, in addition to their day jobs (this is the USA, after all). Not only are their pastures on steep hillsides, but they only have huge animals like horses and cattle so that comes with pulling trailers and hauling bales of hay, etc. The trucks LOOK like they are farm trucks, their back seat areas in the cabs are dedicated to dogs, and the drivers are… petite women. 🤣 They are super nice and generous too, so I get to do the “have a friend with a truck” thing.
But, since I live close to a Home Depot, I don’t borrow one of the trucks unless I am buying 12+ foot (3.66+ meter) lumber or an appliance.
Every time I’m at Home Depot in old clothes with cuts on my arms and legs, loading standard 8’ (2.44m) lumber into my decade-old economy sedan, I’m surrounded by people who look like me demographically but are dressed much more cleanly and getting into shiny clean late model luxury SUVs or the hulking pickup trucks that cost even more.
I’ve always said that the fines for moving traffic violations need to be scaled to the weight of the vehicle.
It’s insane that going 20 over the limit on a 250kg moped gets you the exact same fine as doing it in a 4 ton F-450.
The more insane part is that Bezos and that mfer working McDonald’s gets the same fine. It might as well be jail time for one, and a verbal warning for the other.
Except in Finland like with that Nokia executive
So “cute” we kept our little static fines as if three or four figures mean something to everyone
I mean they’re not mutally exclusive. Fines could, and should scale with both.
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This is actually a great idea. IV never considered this. Oh man, EVs would get cooked on fines
Yeah, it is a downside that this may discourage EV adoption, but tbh. if you chose your car based on the fines you’d get when speeding is…questionable, to say the least.
“the consequences of doing an illegal and dangerous thing with my product” should, in my opinion, not be a choice criterion.
Though a scaling that takes both size and weight into account might be even better. Particularly for crashes involving pedestrians, cyclists and bikers, the size, and particulalry the height of the bonnet, are almost more significant than just the raw weight. A hollowed out F-450 weighing 1 ton is probably still more deadly to those people than a ~1.5-2 ton electric sedan.
This isn’t really aimed at reducing adoption of big cars, more at getting the people who drive more dangerous vehicles, to drive with more regard for safety, and be penalised heavier when they don’t.
You couldn’t have linked the bloody video?
Thought I did, sorry. Fixed it now.
The only thing more stupid than these tacky cars are the people sitting in them.
They are plus sized.
Indeed, and they have no performance, even though they pretend to be high-class.
They have Smol pp mentality.
it’s so lovely to see body positivity among the progressives
Everyone else on the road when one of these drives by with a loud muffler:
I usually give them this treatment.
Stop being selfish and think of the shareholders! Buy a ridiculously oversized piece of crap truck to impress your neighbors. How else do you show how manly you are?!
How else do you prove you’re a man?
New f150s dwarf old f250s in size despite not being able to haul as much. I read somewhere that American farmers have a strong preference for pickups from the 90s because new trucks are worse at doing truck stuff in every way.
Wouldn’t this be a suitable topic for a citizens initiative? Along the lines of the stop killing games movement?
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It’s posted in the top comment now
There should be a system in place where, while not banned outright, private ownership of these trucks is dissuaded and favor is granted to commercial contractors. I don’t know how such a system would be implemented but it would ensure that these behemoths stay off city streets. The obvious solution is to design streets that prioritize pedestrians and cyclists first, small cars second and commercial vehicles third but only if they’re actively used in commercial labor.
Make it really inconvenient to own one. Require a CDL and subject them to the same restrictions as commercial vehicles.
You want one? Ok, but it’s going to be a pain in the ass.
Nah, commercial vehicles shouldn’t be given greater freedom to kill bystanders. Limit 'em to 45kph and have to display a yellow flashing knob beacon.
The fucked-up thing is these hulking beasts are a recent construct, we used to have genuinely small trucks here once.
A stock S10 from the '80s, '90s, or early '00s is going to be significantly smaller than a stock Colorado you can pick up new off the lot right now, for example, and that S10 would’ve been more than good enough for things like basic junk runs to the scrapyard or for hardware store runs for things like bags of sand or whatever.
Some wealthy idiots in Europe will buy a handful of US pick-up trucks. The normal European would not waste their money on the insurance, emission taxes, fuel cost, and maintenance for that junk. Good luck parking it too. I always laughed when I saw a RAM on the Autobahn with the “AF” plates. Aral (Petrol Stations) were delighted when they had to fill it up off base.
Great
How?
Is this a re upload?? I’m sure already saw that video some time ago
He has another video about stupid American trucks, but it’s about how stupid they are in America, not that politicians are trying to get them into Europe.
Thanks, he even mentioned at the of the video that he already did another one on the US.
They are so terrible
