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.
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.
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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
Wait until the CyberTruck arrives
It won’t because its exterior has too many sharp edges to be street legal. It will never be allowed in europe, not without a whole bunch of laws beeing changed.
You’re very fortunate as it’s a hideous abomination
Every time I see one turning or handling a slope it looks like the handling is traaaaaaash.
I will say that the wheels and tires actually look cool. On a different vehicle those could be very stylish for a city truck someone in Ft Worth or Atlanta might have.
I have a oddly hard time spotting Cybertrucks in the wild, I think it’s my brain trying to spare me the psychic damage of seeing such an ugly vehicle.
Your brain probably just thought it was a dumpster
I saw a bunch of them in California when we visited during the previous administration.
I suppose they could stick a bunch of goofy bumpers on it like the US compliant Countach. It might be the only way to make them uglier.
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?
It’s hilariously sad watching these huge trucks driving like they’re corvettes on the highway.
I drove a few hundred kilometers on the highway the other day after a bit of snow fall, of course the four cars that I saw in the ditch were pickups
the four cars that I saw in the ditch were pickups
High centre of gravity strikes again!
I think in this case it was more the lack of winter tires and weight over the rear
awful lot of people seem to think all-terrain tires are perfectly suited for winter
Still, it’s the pathetic weight distribution/positioning. Bad design. Unsafe at any speed.
Help how? I would love nothing more if I never had to see one again but I can hardly prohibit others from having one
Below the video you`ll find links to organisation competing this legislation. You can join those and support them.
If EU citizen, you can write to your member of the EU-parliament. Theres a pre-fabricated letter you can send in. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search/advanced
He explains it in the conclusion of the video.
you can make sure that you treat the owners like the selfish assholes they are, though
might influence some of them, at the least it’s definitely better than nothing
They know they’re selfish, in fact to them selfishness is a virtue. So no, it won’t help at all.
Lobby against them, keyscrape, put anti- tinydickcar posters up, etc.
Everyone else on the road when one of these drives by with a loud muffler:
I usually give them this treatment.
Seems like links to the video itself are missing in the post, here they are:
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-keep-these-stupid-american-trucks / https://youtu.be/--832LV9a3I
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?
If only there was a youtube video that could summarize the issue for us.
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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.
