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Also out of Japan as well, please. We definitely don’t need these, especially in pedestrian- and cyclist-heavy areas. (I have seen hummers trying to drive some streets in Tokyo and it’s insane).
You see a few of them here-and-there in Korea these days. They’re extra infuriating here because they don’t fit in most parking spaces and they’ll straight-up turn a lot of two-way roads into one-way. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one with something in the bed. Purely for show.
that one way becomes a no-eay real quick when they meet somebody who calls their bluff
I don’t think I’ve ever seen one with something in the bed.
That’s usually the case here in the States as well. Not to mention how high the bed sits! You have to lift stuff to shoulder height to load the damn things, lol. They’ve become caricatures of trucks at this point.
How are they legal then? Sounds like either those streets should have limits against trucks and the trucks should be categorised as such or they shouldn’t be legal at all.
Wish we didn’t have these big stupid things in Canada. Every dumb asshole you could ever meet has one and they all drive and park like the dumb assholes that they are.
Came back to my car the other day to find one of the trucks parked to me. Could barely squeeze into my car then it was 2m longer than my car and so much higher i literally couldn’t see a thing to drive out.
Had to creep forward but i had zero visibility until my driver window was past the front of the truck. It then stuck out the space so much i needed a 3 point turn to get around it due to cars parked opposite.
I was at end of the row so had to turn across it to get out. Just totally unsafe for anyone not inside it!
Hey, I know they are dumb, ugly, dangerous and annoying, but some people in Europe have micro penisses too! Oh wait, we have Porsche for that. Never mind, fuck off with those testosterone tankers.
At least Porsches look beautiful and aren’t as tall. I’d say it’s a better spending of money than those compensation cars.
How can people stand to drive these. You are so limited with how you can navigate the environment with barely any benefit.
The excuse I’ve heard is that they want visibility because everyone else has tall ass jacked up trucks they need to be jacked up too.
With that mentality, we should fit all of our toddlers and preteens with stilts and hivis vests so these poor truck owners will see them over the massive hood.
True example of “race to the bottom”
The other excuse is that they want to be protected in a collision. And, there’s some truth to that. If you’re in a small car and you’re hit by a huge truck, you’re probably in a lot of danger. But, if you’re also in a huge truck you might not be hurt as badly. But that’s also a race to the bottom.
Not so fun fact: For every 10cm in car hight theres a corresponding increase in fatalities by 22% (source)
These machines maim us, they kill us, and they cause permanent bodily harm to us. However in exchange they make us fatter, more depressed, less connected, more lonely, angrier, allow us to waste time in traffic, and enjoy cities with less green spaces.
But on the bright side when you spend a significant portion of your paycheck on these horrid machines, and some child in Africa dies for the raw resources needed to make them you can sleep easy at night knowing an automobile CEO can afford his sixth mansion and his eighth mega yacht.
I wish I could ride my bike like a Scythed Chariot and destroy all these death machines that have the gall to ride on the bike path.
I mean fuck! I hate cars and pretentious drivers so goddamn much. The only thing they have to do to accelerate is push a pedal once with less effort than moving a feather of a newborn chick, yet they for some reason consistently claim the right of way, or get it by law even. Topsy-turvy society.
“I reduced the insolent crowd of carriages which cumber our streets, for this luxury of speed destroys its own aim; a pedestrian makes more headway than a hundred conveyances jammed end to end along the twists and turns of the Sacred Way.” ―Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987)
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At least trucks are useful for farmers and construction workers. What you need to focus on is making your transit network better so nobody needs a small car at all, and these trucks are only used by the few people who need a big truck.
these trucks are only used by the few people who need a big truck
Did I miss your sarcasme or are you not connected to reality?
These truck should only be used by the few people who need a big truck. That is a small minority of people.
Right. They should only be used by the few people that need them. But the reality is there are a lot of people with no business owning a big truck driving them in places that big trucks have no business being in
Back to my point: fix tranit so more people don’t think they need to drive. Small cars are still vastly more dangeious than transit.
should, yes.
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You mean serious farmers and construction workers are better off with an american style “truck” (60% comfy family and passanger space, 40% bed for your construction stuff) than with a van or a “classic” truck (two seats and a big bed for all your stuff)?
That will depend on what they are doing. a lot of construction crews need a seat for everyone on the crew, and the small bed is enough. The reason trucks cabs have got much larger as we no longer accept people riding in the bed of the truck, or in front with no seat belt. This is overall for the better, but either the truck needs to be longer or your need a shorter bed.
The only people who can afford these 100k€ rams and f150s are rich assholes. Farmers drive around in their toyota hilux or ford ranger that is small in compariaon to these massive american trucks and all of the construction workers use vans.
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