Agreed, we shouldn’t be letting the goddamn ephemeral mannekinder block roadways.
You have a point but the margins are like 30% more plus these dumb chucklefucks are willing to pay 67%apr over 9 years I think we can afford the odd child death
If I recall my driver’s ed, most current “rules of the road” (such as leave a two second gap) are based around WW2 tank driving regulations.
Yeah cars are bullshit. Yeah these vehicles are monstrosities that guzzle gas.
But, sedans are too low to the ground. As a tall person, I need something SUV-sized (regular SUV like a buick envoy) just to get out of. The whole world is designed around someone who is ~5’7". I am 6’3". Getting in and out of vehicles, off of low rise furniture, and reaching down to get stuff off if grocery store shelves is a ROYAL PAIN IN THE ASS!!!
I need a taller vehicle just to get out of. I basically have to crawl just to get in and out of an uber sedan.
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We should start packing nitroglycerin into kids backpacks to force drivers to be more careful. Sure, some kids would die unnecessarily but dead children seems to be a price Americans are very willing to pay.
Well, I assume the idea is to see the children before they’re that close…
That being said, from my small vehicle I could probably tell what shoes someone is wearing from the same distance that the driver of one of these monstrosities can barely tell their hair color.
I get why trucks exist, I just don’t get why so many people drive them as their primary or only vehicle when they don’t regularly haul anything more than groceries.
Well, I assume the idea is to see the children before they’re that close…
It is, but that does not help you when you stop to talk with the neighbour and their child runs in front of your car while you don’t see.
It should at least be mandatory to have a front & rear facing cameras and proximity sensors for cars like this.
EPA regulations on emissions, in relation to size, caused light trucks (and the SUVs based on them) to grow to the size you see. Ironically, the fuel efficient small pickup trucks and SUVs we grew up with in the 80s and 90s don’t meet modern standards. I die a little inside every time I see one of the Nissan trucks, like the one I totaled. ;_;
I’m holding on to my 21 year old 1st gen Colorado like my life depends on it. I’m so mad small pickups aren’t a choice nowadays…
They have become prohibitively expensive to have as a secondary vehicle, if someone is in a position to need a truck occasionally, most people can’t afford to have it as anything other than their daily driver.
If you only need a truck occasionally, rent one.
I don’t understand the problem here.
Also, these monstrosities are gas guzzlers, a smaller vehicle will be cheaper to run. Your argument lacks merit here.
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No, never. That would scream mass transit, or the B(us) word. Unacceptable. Think of all the unclean, dirty people with darker skin that I would be forced to look at unfairly.
I thought this was about the freaky little mankins, I was like “yeah they’re freaky, but banned is a bit harsh” then I saw that the background was a modern truck grille, not a building.
Oof yeah ban both
Trying to ban them would be extraordinarily difficult. A potential solution would be to push to reclassify them as trucks, under trucking regulations (I’m unsure how this is done in the US). Once you need a tachograph and a requirement to keep driving records, it would cut back on sales. It also still allows “legitimate” usage. This would weaken the argument against the change.
Basically anything where you can’t see a 5 year old within 0.5m of your bumper should be under “truck” rules, not “car” rules.
For this purpose, it’s not a question of banning them, but adding pedestrian safety regulations. You can still build these monstrosities while also providing better visibility and less likelihood for victims to be run over.
It’s just banning the “wall” of the front. That’s only required as a style choice and style should not trump safety
I’ve actually been paying more attention lately since my brother bought a Chevy
BehemothSilverado EV. As a big and tall guy I’m used to being bigger than most people I encounter, but looking at the “wall” at the front of these vehicles, it is also well above my center of mass. I would also be thrown down and run over. It’s not just children but there really is no “big enough” to survive getting hit with those(And yes I will keep giving my brother a hard time. After All these years of owning a house and large property where he could have argued he needed a truck, he gets one after he gave up that property. He bought this monstrosity to commute alone and do road trips alone. Nothing to tow. Nothing to haul.)
“Nothing to to tow, nothing to haul.” is so typical. And when they do it’s something even a sedan could pull or a van would have been better for. And then they’ll claim they want winter safety even as I comfortably rip by them in a blizzard with my goddamn BRZ(partly because I actually bought winter tires and they think their frozen “all-terrain” tires are good enough).
We fixed the problem with SUV blindspots by putting rear view cameras on cars, I almost wonder if the solution here is more cameras. Front-facing would get much dirtier tho.
Maybe, but why not
- bumper must be a specific height
- headlights must be a specific height
- hood must be sloped so a standard driver can see X
- front face must be lower than center of mass for X, so they are more likely to go over than under
- hood must deform on pedestrian impact (I believe this is required in parts of Europe)
You can do all this to greatly improve survivability of your victims and it only impacts style choices. You can still drive your monstrosity while not killing other people
@BanMe @AA5B Cameras do nothing for people who are hit with the vehicle because the driver is operating it negligently or to reduce the environmental impact (in fact they increase it by using more energy & rare earth minerals). Cameras are a very expensive harm reduction strategy, not a full solution to the problem of oversized vehicles.
I’m feeling similarly. Require a minimum sight lines for shorter humans in front of the vehicle, and lower weight/size limitations on vehicles for a standard Class D license, and a short 1-2 year grandfather period for folks who already own a vehicle that they’ll require additional licensing to continue driving so that they can either trade it or get their ducks in a row and continue driving their vehicle legally.
These gigantic trucks and SUVs are unacceptable on our roads and they keep adding extra wear to our roads due to the increased weight, require larger parking spaces and of course are far more deadly to those outside of the vehicle in any kind of collision. They need to be regulated back into the niches their classes were originally designed to fill.
And for those saying “oh but I need a bed for this that and the other” guess what? you can buy a trailer. Drive around an efficient vehicle then hook up an 8 foot trailer (bigger than basically any truck bed these days!) when you need to haul shit
Why does the front of the car needs to be that high? Does it serve any utility?
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It’s purely aesthetic.
Why do our car manufacturers here even remotely think this is okay?
Because it’s legal for them to kill us but illegal for us to kill them back.
They don’t think it’s okay, but neither do they care. They want money even if it means killing kids.
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Right. Get those kids if from front my truck. I gotta go to Walmart to get a bag of cool ranch Doritos.
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WTF ? Now we have to deal with monstertrucks ?
