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Left side: cars are getting bigger in Europe
Right side: MURICAAA!!!11
Looks like Australia according to the image, but from what I gather that’s just America with death spiders anyway lol
Australia is not just the US with death spiders.
Aussie land is factorio. America is like a civ game or a city builder.
Australia is complaining about a truck when their country is 80% outback?
you realize like 90% of australians live in 6 cities, right?
American here. I complain about these things and my country is 90% wilderness.
Y’all won’t how a camera works 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you can even see the seam.
This is painfully obvious what this propaganda is trying to do. Then y’all take it a step further by making stories up about the driver. Like sitting in a GOP strategy room, just a notch or two less evil than the actual GOP members.
What seam?
Regarding propaganda, just because something is propaganda doesn’t mean it is automatically a lie. It just means that it is being used for political gains.
You folks make me so sad for our future. I sit here watching the GOP and fascist countries gaining power while I watch the folks who should care race them to the bottom.
This specifically is just a lex extreme version of the US bombing the middle east to stop terrorists.
These images get used as accurate portrayals of progressive lies and gets added to the pile of
leftistconspiracies. These things essentially become an onboarding packet.Whatever, it’s just a meme I guess.
What agenda is being pushed by a camera angle that makes the truck look 10% bigger? Its still a massive truck and I think it was mostly photographed this way to show the grills and hoods of both vehicles, not to embelish the size.
Sure, this image calling the truck with a lift a monstrosity with perspective that clearly makes the size delta as large as possible was just chosen at random 👌👍
The hoops you are jumping through here qualifies for a circus act. 10%, my goodness that suv could be near fully imposed on just the door panels. The height of the SUV is at the truck bed ffs 🤣
I think people should need a licence to drive anything that has a tall nose. The chance of fatality is really high for those cars and people need to be taught that.
I agree you already need a license to drive a semi trucks I believe but just as someone who dailys a little itty bitty BMW z3 and works at a Toyota dealership and has driven 60s international harvesters anything bigger than a jeep wrangler takes time getting used to being tall and bulky hell I’ve seen people driving in the middle of the road because they got acclimated to driving a corrola and just hopped into a f150 as a man who has flipped my ATV making trails off roading no matter what your in you need to be instructed on the ins and outs of off roading I’m so onboard for making a sort of truck driving license
Iiiiiidiot tax! $99,99 for 2 hour course where people tell you “You see that hood? Yeah, you hit someone with it, that person is GONE”.
better yet, mandatory lifelike dummy crash experience. Send em into a ballistics gel dummy loaded with blood and organs, see how they feel about it.
I just want to put a small barrier between people and buying a car that’s may more dangerous than any reasonably sized alternative. If people want storage space they should buy a station wagon. If they want to transport for work they should buy a Caddy type. If they want to go outdoors offroading then they should get a licence on how to drive offroad and how to prevent front-over accidents etc.
SUVs and bigger cars are becoming the default choice and I think that’s a bad thing.
The thing is if we actually make an off-road vehicle then something in the form factor of a uni-mog is vastly superior.
mogs are cool, i don’t know much about them because they seem to be primarily european, but i will probably own one someday out of curiosity, i only hear good things about them.
Personally i’m a fan of industry trucks though, tatra, oshkosh, unimog, the usual suspects. Ford can eat shit.
If people want storage space they should buy a station wagon. If they want to transport for work they should buy a Caddy type. If they want to go outdoors offroading then they should get a licence on how to drive offroad and how to prevent front-over accidents etc.
Most people buying one of these expended exactly zero seconds of thought on what they need from an automobile.
If someone even managed to get any law in place like what you’re suggesting (which they won’t because it goes against the interests of business), the right wing idiot backlash would be furious and cacophonous and the net result would be Florida marking a day on the calendar as state wide “Ford-fuck-you-mobile” day.
…registration fees should be proportional to GVWR and speed limits (and fines) should be based upon kinetic energy…
Honestly, they know that. But fashion is fashion, and people’s desire is rarely logical. So that barrier…I don’t think it will work any better than actual idiot tax. The only offputting thing would be price.
There’s already an idiot tax, a crossover costs 50% more than regular. Price is not an issue for people that buy these but a license, course and having the license easier to revoke for speeding in pedestrian zone might work.
…problem is that manufacturers are discontinuing cars to focus upon SUVs + trucks…
It’s starting to impact the used car market where I live. Not as many options as before when half are cross/suv.
I would love a station wagon, but not many of those around where I live 🙃
https://www.caranddriver.com/rankings/best-station-wagons
Apparently these things are what they are calling station wagons these days.
Fucking hell the size inflation is too real. Toyota Auris and Hyundai i30 are good ones for anybody looking.
The Volvo isn’t too bad, but yeah it’s weird how big they got on the outside, while at the same time seemingly having less storage inside.
Lmao what? These are practically SUV’s
Fr, I would call every single one of those a “crossover” before I called them station wagons.
That Volvo v60 is the closest thing to a modern station wagon. If it doesn’t have 3 big side windows from front to back, it shouldn’t be called a station wagon.
…that mercedes wagon is legitimate…
Mandatory weekly attendance for every week you wanna continue to drive around that thing in a city.
Yep these big rigs should require a CDL, enough with the light trick exemption
If it doesnt have airbrakes, and you remove enough seats, you are legally allowed to drive a school bus with a normal liscence.
We need a LOT of attention to liscensing for different types of vehicles beyond just these trucks
Many countries do demand a commercial vehicle license for such trucks.
Both my brother in laws have huge modified trucks, both live in cities, both complain that the road infrastructure and parking doesn’t cater to their large vehicles… Also both have (probably) never used the truck bed.
They are so huge, tons of room in the cab. Feels like driving in a living room. Have to ride over curbs to get out of parking lots though
I once asked a friend with a truck to help me pickup a BBQ. When attempting to load it he got so worried about us scratching the truck bed that eventually we couldn’t proceed. Called another buddy with a minivan, we put a moving blanket down and off we went. No whining, just work.
…minivans are fantastic purposeful vehicles and probably what one-quarter of SUVs should be driving; the other three-quarters should be driving cars if they hadn’t been swept up in the road-tank arms race…
dude minivans are crazy, you can fit a full 4x8 sheet of plywood in that bitch EZPZ
That’s golden hahaha
Some of those curbs may also be kids, but who can tell.
You’ve gotta compensate your penis size with your car. This is just basic science.
And the bed of that playtruck is empty and has never been used
Why not put a spare car in it?
Car? Why not another truck?
It’s just trucks all the way down
Can’t. The cab needed enough room to put the family so you know where they are without having to mow them down first.
Never been to the US, only now with this picture do I realize the size of these things. That’s basically a monster truck ? are there many of them ?
Thanks I’m calling them monster trucks from now on
I live in Imperial Beach, California. There is absolutely no reason to have one of these monstrosities here, and none of the 15 that live in my neighborhood ever have any type of mud on them. Not even the 4 whose hoods are at my eye level, I’m 6’3" / 192cm, because they lifted the hell out of them. I will admit that the guy who has an 8’4" tall old school VW bug may be a bit strange, but at least that thing looks cool, and he has it as an advertisement for his shop, so there was a reason for him to have the thing.
Ironically the VW is the only one that ever has any mud on it.
Truck? It’s a fucking tank.
Picture is from Australia but yes the US is littered with these, especially in rural communities but there are more in the cities than their should be
Visited upstate NY a couple of years ago. They accounted for I’d say 30-40% of all traffic. Of course, upstate NY is basically the southern US of the northern US if you know what I mean.
depends on where you go upstate, but yeah, rural America in general is where you find confederate flags
I was near lake Erie personally
I don’t, but I can understand percentages
What does that make Pennsyltucky?
This picture is from Australia. We don’t have many, they’re becoming more common but ones that are lifted like that are less common. In my area it’s mainly normal rams. Which are far bigger than normal aussie cars.
…no, that’s just the common american pickup: monster trucks are much larger…
The people who drive these things here in the UK are mental. I got smashed by one once overtaking me on a slip road because I wasn’t going fast enough for him. I followed him all the way to his golf club and confronted him about it. His tank was barely scratched while my driver side door was totally fucked.
Yeah even the SUV would be uncomfortably wide on some UK roads, end yet they’re getting really common. They’re almost all driven by people who don’t need a large vehicle.
Not fair to call it a tank. A tank driver can see a child in front.
I’ve seen a small woman driving a Hummer in Ware (Hertfordshire UK) of all places, can just about see out of the windows (that’s another thing that pisses me off, don’t people know you can raise the seat to let you see out of the windows?), can’t park in normal bays as it’s too big (and she can’t see) and it has a plate something like V8 HMR. FFS.
/rant
My car is probably smaller than the cabin and engine of that truck and I don’t even have a compact car
You know what’s fucked, Standards Australia annouced they were considered increasing the minimum size for parking spots and gave only 3 weeks for public comment.
So many comments against, but I bet the car lobbies get their way anyway.
These things are a scourge.
As someone from Texas, these are disgusting, and people driving this garbage are not friendly towards pedestrians at all. They have no self awareness sitting inside these killing machines.
The only reason for 99.9% of people to drive this garbage is to feel big when on the road. How petty.
There is also the factor of danger and safety. People are observing more gigantic cars on the road and being in a smaller one makes them feel unsafe. So they get a bigger one when they get a new car, perpetuating the problem.
Many of my family is in this. They keep getting bigger vehicles because they get the sense of safety. They cannot grasp how bad that mentality is and how wrong they are. And with bigger vehicles, it means that much less room for error too. And most people suck at driving. Not all the time, but that one time you make a mistake (as we all do) could be a big one in an oversized vehicle.
One pretty big factor to these getting bought is due to safety and for that reason I feel like we as a society has prioritized driver safety that we have sacrificed pedestrian safety
it’s not safety, i mean, well, it is safety, at the cost of the poor sod that you crash into and fucking kill. Or the children that you’re statistically more likely to run over and even more statistically likely to kill if you do hit them.
You know what else is safe? Not ramming your car into a brick wall.
I’m just talking about car safety for the first bit here, not even pedestrian impacts.
Nope, purely emotional buying:
… occupant death rate was 6% higher in SUVs than in conventional cars, and 8% in the biggest ones.
… children are eight times more likely to die when struck by an SUV compared with an average passenger car.
… “These figures suggest that SUVs were probably killing around an extra 3,000 people in the US a year at that time – more than died at 9/11,” write Simms and Murray. Roughly a third of those died in SUV rollovers, and another third from being hit by one. The final third were being killed by respiratory problems because of the extra pollution caused by SUVs.”
Eh most of your points kinda proves my point of how we have been sacrificing pedestrian safety for driver safety the only considerable counterpoint you brought up is how SUVs are more prone to rollover and from what I understand about cars getting bigger is so crashing is less deadly but by being bigger you also make crashing more inevitable so I guess that’s a bit of a stalemate argument
I’d argue that it sacrifices the safety of any other car that’s smaller than it too, with sudans being the most vulnerable. No way a bumper difference of feet allows for the smaller car’s safety features to work as intended if not bypassed entirely.
especially when lifted, if you’re driving a corolla or some shit and get hit with a tonka truck you’re getting mostly lower suspension, luckily it’s still an engine block in front of you, but it’s still fucking horrifying.
I’ve also heard that these things almost never get insured because they’re a fucking mess.
Yeah crumple zones are enforced by the bumper so when you lift a car you’re making the colliding car smash into the other above the bumper and gliding above the crumple zone if I recall the Ford pento was unfairly judged because the cars that were used to rate it’s rear end crash safety had their front ends waghted down to simulate heavy breaking however it caused the cars to not only have more weight than normal but they also ramed into the pento going under the crumple zone and directly into the gas tank so I guess you can also make a argument for lowered SUVs and trucks to be just as bad as lifted trucks and suvs
so I guess you can also make a argument for lowered SUVs and trucks to be just as bad as lifted trucks and suvs
smells to me like any non standardization in the auto industry greatly increases the danger of being in a car. Surely this won’t cause any problems.
I said it before and I’ll say it again.
Can we not live without a complete screenshot from Reddit? Are we not better than that?
Are we not better than that?
I think it’s abundantly clear that we are not better than that.
Is it any better than the people that screenshot instagram or Facebook to share on other social media? I’m not a fan of the low-effort share, all these platforms’ users are low-effort and rip off each other’s work to re-re-re-share it everywhere. I don’t see people here being too much different or Reddit content being any more objectionable than the rest.
No. It’s no different.
