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TBF we're rapidly approaching an idiocracy situation, so maybe killing children is a mercy. (/s in case it's not abundantly obvious)
We must raise them even higher in order to not discriminate against children.
These haven't really invaded New Zealand yet, but I walked past a parked one once and the bonnet came up to my shoulders - I'm six foot tall.
These... things are a "clear threat" to fully-grown adults. They're well beyond that for children.
Oh, they're here. Our parking spaces aren't big enough for American cars, so they park as far back as the curb will let them – you can see their towballs lining the paths like tripmines.
Gor a chuckle out of a 'ute' with the empty bed pulling a trailer with the tradie's gear in it though. Awww, your two-cab lifestyle ute's open bed too small for a 2x4 there buddy?
I drive a normal sized pickup and almost every day I come out of work I have that freakout moment where I think my car has been stolen because it is 100% completely hidden behind one of these kid killers some other person keeps parking next to my pickup.
Trucks don't need to be that big. Half of them have extended cabs and shortened beds, which kind of kills the point of having a pickup truck. The full bed for hauling shit is the whole point.
Also, why would you condemn yourself to the pain of parking one of those wherever you go?
Also, they kill children.
Half of them have extended cabs and shortened beds,
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's literally all of them at this point. Aside maybe from fleet sales and other special cases like that, I don't think there are any pickup truck models in the US that are actually available with a regular cab anymore.
(The Slate truck is supposedly going to be regular cab, but it doesn't count because it's not out yet.)
Imported Kei trucks have the same bed length as the newest F150, if not a little longer.
I miss the days when single cab pickup trucks were the norm. Because that meant not only smaller trucks, but also the sacrifice of passenger space discouraged people from getting them unless they actually needed one.
pipi small, but wroom wroom big
The full bed for hauling shit is the whole point.
Why not get a van though? You get much more carrying space that can also be converted into enough passenger space so that it's basically a bus.
This is what happens when politicians create laws and never revisit them to make corrections. Im a pretty tall person and i was on a dealship lot walking amongst the trucks and the amount of them I couldn't even see over was terrifying. How much bigger do these need to get before they start classifying them as big rigs?
In the US? I don't think there is a width or height requirement for a Big Rig (something that requires a CDL). Vehicles cannot be over 102 inches wide, any anything over 80 inches wide requires some additional marker lights. Height, anything up to about 13 feet is fine and legal. Maximum length is 65 feet. CDL's are generally for certain weight limits, (26000 lbs) not physical dimensions.
This isn't a discovery, this is just one of the things men in US society decided to ignore the danger of and the rest of us dutifully complied.
This community is "FuckCars", not "FuckMen". There are plenty of men here who are here because "Fuck Cars". I don't think that alienating the men of this community will do any good.
Look; kids need to be killed. It's easier if you don't need to see them.
Are you going to tell me americans shouldn't cull the weak? That we shouldn't be americans?
As an adult I can attest to some vehicles being way too damn high up for their own good. I'm slightly below average height for my area and while out shopping I walked by a truck with a grill that came up above my height. If the driver was in and decided to get rolling, there would definitely have been a good chance of I was directly in front of it that I'd be in the hospital.
If the drive would be unable to see me when I'm right up against the grill, a small child would probably stand no chance a few feet away. The people with vehicles like that definitely should to stop stroking their 1mm peter like it's a 2 footer and think of other people's safety.
“Have the kids tried growing” - MAGAcuck
My favorite part about this is that many of these Sherman tank drivers come speeding behind me and then when they're a car's length from me, veer over into another lane, leaving the car behind them(who had been matching their speed) with the nasty little surprise of my car, which had been completely invisible to them a second ago.
They do that shit on purpose to piss off the car behind them for daring to "tailgate". I've had former friends and family who brag about it.
Literally putting a random person's life on the line for a small bit of petty revenge at a perceived slight.
I'm 5'3 (160cm) and feel like I am invisible to trucks when I'm in a parking lot. It also feels like they've doubled their height (or more) over the last ten-15 years
This is all caused by the CAFE act of 1992-1993.
Considering that this article is about the UK/Europe, that causation is pretty indirect.
Normally I would agree, but even the European auto makers have been following these horrible "guidelines."
And this is just another reason for me to get a lowering kit with my slate truck. It both gets me a little closer to the sedan road height I'm already used to, and also incidentally prevents kids from being obscured.
I'll take an unplanned bonus any day.
Bonnets close to eye level and long bonnets are a shit combination.
I'm quite high up in a Mercedes Sprinter, but I'm not mowing down kids because the bonnet is well before eye line and goes down on a steeper angle.
I loved driving a Sprinter when I was making deliveries. It’s undoubtedly a large vehicle, but I could fit that thing fucking anywhere. Tiny alleyway? No problem. Parallel parking on a busy street? Fuck yeah, perfect three point park every time. Super tight loading dock? Let me just squeeeeze right between these two semis. And it was in large part because the visibility was excellent. I never needed to worry about if I was going to hit something, because I could 100% see all the way around the vehicle. Between the giant mirrors, short hood, and top-mounted (birds eye view) backup camera, I was able to fit that thing into places that would have scared a regular pickup truck driver.
It was to the point that I was considering buying one for myself, and converting it into a sleeper. I was freelancing at the time, and many of my job sites were 1-2 hours away. If I’m working in the morning and evening, but not during the afternoon, it would have been nice to just chill in a van. Instead of driving all the way home only to turn around and drive right back, I’d often end up finding local things to do instead. I had like 16 different library cards at one point, because that was a fairly reliable place to just chill for a few hours. No matter which town I was in, there was almost always a library somewhere nearby. But if I could have just rolled the windows down and taken a nap in my van, I probably would have done that quite a bit.
Gotta love American exceptionalism ... and then when other countries copy the U.S., you kinda gotta facepalm.