The car manufacturers and the politicians they own beg to differ.
I recently got hit by a truck on my bike. I’m not sure if it’s because I wasn’t visible or if it was a general douchebag.
In any event, you can generally tell how big a douchebag someone is by how large their truck is. Douchebags don’t usually drive Datsuns.
Because I love making generalizations based on personal experience: most of the bad drivers I encounter on the road are either pickup trucks, BMWs, or rusted out junkers.
The trucks have no regard for others’ safety, because they know if they get in an accident they will squash a smaller vehicle. They take this to the point of just swerving into your lane, counting on you to break or get out of the way.
BMWs are simply unskilled, unpredictable, selfish drivers. They are too self-obsessed to cater their driving to anyone else on the road. They will take up lanes they don’t need to be in and do illegal maneuvers to correct their mistakes, because they believe they are above the law.
The junkers are just batshit methheads or something. They have no regard for anyone’s safety, including their own. They have a drug deal they are trying to get to.
Be the change you want in the world.
Get ready Datsun… I’m ready to douche it up
But if I don’t have a truck the size of a locomotive how will people know that I absolutely do not have a micropenis?
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Always has
Excuse me ladies. Just thought I’d mention I ahem don’t have any vehicle all.
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No vehicle can contain that man.
I’ve pivoted. I don’t think it’s the size of the penis. Plenty of people with below average penises are great in bed and their partners are happy.
The people who feel the need to compensate know they are weak and cowardly and would never stand up for themselves against anyone stronger than them. And it emasculates them so they feel the need to compensate outwardly to other men. “I’m big and strong and tough!” In reality they’d back down from any other person, authority figure, or institution that they didn’t feel like could beat or bully.
This is what I think of people who look for excuses to hate on strangers.
I can see from your post history you don’t even have to look.
Link to an example of me hating on strangers.
Can’t buy a small truck because EPA regulations made it easier to make the trucks bigger. Let’s remove that failed regulation so small trucks actually exist.
Not Redditors when they get to body shame people they disagree with.
Nothing wrong with having a small penis. Definitely some things wrong with the way people choose to compensate for their insecurities. Such is life.
They’ll cover them in corporate “crash detection” cameras for which you need to pay a monthly subscription and they take all the data and sell it to cops anyway. It’s a win-win-win for capitalism!
This arms race applies to the vehicles themselves, too. Gotta get a big enough truck so I can see the road around traffic!
Literally people feel safer in larger vehicles because of all of the large vehicles on the road. It’s a positive feedback loop
These days, all new vehicles all have detection camera’s.
They don’t have any type of warning for running people over. Cameras don’t activate if you aren’t backing up.
Some of them do, and you can activate the cameras in a lot of cars at will that have front and side cameras. Some of them will auto-brake when going toward pedestrians.
Nothing beats also having actual visible sight line, and there’s frequently no excuse for the terrible sight lines of modern high riding passenger vehicles, but pedestrian safety systems are available, and based on technology so cheap in the context of a $20,000+ vehicle that it probably should be mandated at this point.
A lot of cars do have pedestrian detection these days. Even lower end cars like Toyota Corollas have pedestrian detection as a standard feature. These pedestrian detection features automatically apply the brakes when it detects that you’re about to hit someone.
so you stare at your camera instead of what’s in front of the car?
Relevant video by Not Just Bikes. The blind spot is just one small issue in a sea of issues
Here’s another excellent video explaining why we don’t have small trucks any more.
Great video, and fully agree with its message. I really don’t understand why people buy these and am always amused (and a wee bit irked) when I see one trying to maneuver on a tight street. Want more space? Get a hatchback. Got kids you need to carry around and need more space? Get a longer hatchback (or station wagons as the guy says in the video). Plus, you look cooler in a car the closer you are to the ground.
Colin Furze had the solution for cyclists three years ago: https://youtu.be/vZFDNR9V5Nc
Directly regulating the size isn’t the only possibility though, huge cars are really rare in the EU even though there isn’t anything prohibiting you from buying them. You just won’t fit anywhere with one if you do :)
Ahah love the pic u linked of one blocking a tram. The regulators would surely be on their ass for blocking stuff like that.
Sad thing is as these become more common they’ll pressure the right people to change the infrastructure around their bigger cars.
Depends i see, every suv as needlesly huge. And you definitly see them everywhere
American perspective: The RAM fits just fine, shame that that railcar doesn’t fit.
Thing is, the size is already regulated. The bigger the car is, more emmisions are allowed.
This cars are getting bigger because of regulation.
I have no idea why F-150’s keep getting bigger. Do people really like that shit? Old trucks are so much better, from design to MPG.
I think there’s a huge percentage of truck drivers who never use their truck for truck stuff. It’s simply a status symbol to them which is pathetic. And bigger equals better in their feeble minds.
I have a 13 yr old Tacoma and it’s tiny compared to even the modern “small” trucks. When this thing finally dies, I have no idea what I’ll get. I love the size of it though. Maybe a Ford Maverick, but those are on backorder for years I heard from several friends who tried to get one.
Toyota Stout is on the way. It should be the same size as the old Tacomas.
whoa, I hadn’t heard of this, looks amazing!
When this thing finally dies…
…you swap a replacement engine into it and keep going anyway.
I discovered this hack and I’m never buying a new vehicle ever again. I have a 25 yr old truck and a car nearly as old. On the car I’ve long since ditched the old head units to get bluetooth and Android Auto, cleaned up the minor surface rust on the frame and got a protective coating sprayed on, had the seats reupholstered, and upgraded brakes and suspension.
All that cost me less than a new car including the cost of the car and I didn’t have to either pay a massive lump sum all at once or go into debt to buy it.
I drive similarly old vehicles (my oldest is 33; my newest is 18). The other reasons for it are:
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I avoid the exploitative misfeatures of new cars, such as privacy-violating “telemetry” and property-rights-violating “subscription features”
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I get features that are hard or even impossible to find these days, such as manual transmissions even on my SUV and pickup truck.
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my main concern is frame rust - it doesn’t get many miles, but it does live outside. I should probably build a carport for it.
I use my truck for hauling stuff and camping.
For hauling big is objectively better. Without a doubt.
And for camping it’s nice that I can sleep in the 6.5 foot bed of my truck with the camper on it, and also fit my camping supplies in the back seat of my full sized cab. I only put maybe 300 miles a month on it. So it’s not like I’m driving it as my primary. But yes, it’s huge.
Driving to the coast, pointing the back of my truck toward the ocean, and laying in the comfy queen sized bed with a roof and windows, reading a book, with my my wife is one of my favorite weekend activities. And having the instant privacy is very nice.
My other car is a tiny Honda. Which is great for everything else.
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Exactly. I wanted a pickup for the convenience of the bed for the occasional project I might work on but 98% of the time it will just be me in there going to and from work.
I ordered my hybrid Maverick September 2022 and it’s finally scheduled for production. On the one occasion every year or two that I need the power of a full size pickup, I’ll just borrow it or rent some from Home Depot for a few hours.
Even the new Tacoma is still smaller than those F-150 monstrosities. The only other small pickup other than the Maverick is the Santa Cruz, but it isn’t really a utility truck if you actually need to haul a ton of stuff.
What about the Ranger?
Despite being a “smaller” truck, that’s still bigger than many 2010 Tacomas. In Ford’s lineup, only the Maverick is under 200" long, less than 70" tall. Despite being a “teeny tiny truck”, it’s still bigger than a 1995 Ranger by a fair margin.
Here’s an excellent video explaining why.
They have a higher profit margin because they are less regulated than standard size cars. So auto manufactures are incentivized to shift production to larger vehicles and market them to consumers.
People don’t actually want them, car companies have just convinced them they do.
It has to do with new standards for fuel effiency being based on the size of the vehicle.
In the Obama era, Edmunds explained, fuel economy regulations “changed from just a straight average across the board to what’s called a platform-based fuel economy standard. So your fuel economy target for a given vehicle is based on its wheelbase and its tread width, which is the width between the tires left to right. So if you multiply that you find the area of that rectangle and there’s a table that shows what your fuel-economy target is. The bigger the vehicle, the smaller the target.”
In other words, the regulations put in place to get better mileage out of vehicles also led to an increase in truck size. “There was kind of an incentive to maybe stretch the wheelbase a couple of inches and set the tires maybe an inch [farther] apart, because you get a bigger platform and slightly smaller target,” said Edmunds. “Now, the bigger vehicle would be heavier and might use more fuel, so it’s not as easy as just doing that. But certainly there was a feeling that if they did need to make it bigger to accommodate more passengers, the fuel economy target wouldn’t be onerous. They could do it.”
Basically, it was easier to make bigger trucks than it was to build more efficient engines, so we have this gargantuan trucks pushed on us and then they go “ITS WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT” because there are literally no other options besides these giant trucks if you want something with a bed.
Like, even the “small trucks” like the modern Rangers and Colorados are about the same size as the 90s F150s and Silverados. Its nuts.
Again, proof that more regulation is the root cause.
Regulations are not the issue. Short sighted regulations with loopholes you could drive a new F150 through are.
And even still, if you’re not looking for 4 doors you’re doubly SOL. You can have the fleet vehicle, poverty-spec or you can have crew cabs.
This comic was made by a pathetic, jealous shortwalker
I recently moved to a state where there are so many giant vehicles, and I drive a compact car. The front of the hood of an f-150 is as tall as my entire car. I feel like I’m the closest to the ground out of all the cars on the highway. You see all these big trucks and SUVs having a hard time maneuvering in parking lots. Why do all these people need such giant vehicles? Gas is expensive enough in my little tiny car, is the worse mileage even worth it?
Don’t give any Republicans any ideas. They might consider this seriously.
shit comic
I would appreciate an illustration with kids standing , not sitting
