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U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high (text.npr.org)

submitted 1 year ago by dingus@lemmy.ml to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hope you know you're an outlier. The vast majority of people who own trucks in the US don't use them for things like towing or hauling.

According to this data from Axios,^1 on a self-reported survey, only 7% of US truck owners regularly use them for towing, and only 28% regularly use them for hauling.

87% use them for fucking grocery shopping.

[–] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are called pavement princesses and mall crawlers.

Lifted trucks and jeeps that have never even seen a gravel road

[–] heftig@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I think you mean "street princesses". "Pavement princesses" seems to be slang for prostitutes.

[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, and this is the kind of thing I hate. We have tools to use them, but get looked down on because most people are buying completely insane tools for their actual use case / needs. It also leads to the fricken "Luxury Trucks" and all around the trucks costing more and more.

Of course, we're also privileged to be able to get a truck used, and not drive it unless we need to haul or tow something heavy. So we drive much smaller vehicles for commuting or getting groceries.