Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Remember when Hummer came out with a consumer SUV back in the early 90s? I remember thinking they were gigantic and too big for the roads/parking spots. Quick search tells me the wheel base was 130inches (3.3m or 10.8ft). Here it is completely in a parking spot.
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A modern F250 supercab with an 8-foot bed is 175.9in (4.5m / 14.7ft). A 6.75-foot bed, the wheelbase is 147.8in (3.75m / 12.3ft). I wish we could go back to the days of the Hummer…
I wish we could go back to the days of the Hummer…
I wish there was a size max for cars where even the hummer would not be allowed on the road. Cars like pickup trucks and SUV’s increase danger for others. It would be better if there was more public transportation and less cars, and the only cars out there are just plain cars and vans for delivery / mechanic services etc. Because why should other people have a higher risk of dying just because someone has a micropenis?
“Normal” SUVs are something like 70% more likely to kill the pedestrian in a collision with one that cars like sedans.
SUVs are anti-social cars.
Yeah, that’s exactly my point, and there are loads of statistics supporting out claims, yet the automotive industry still has way too much influence so roads are being widened and public transport isn’t improved enough and made cheaper. At least here in the Netherlands a lot is done to improve medestriab and cycling infrastructure, and ways to reduce cars in cities (or sometimes van them completely) but nothing is done about the massive tank death trap SUV’s, usually with a driver more interested in his phone than driving safely (because chance of injury is low while driving it, fuck the rest right… FFS)
I just think it should require additional restrictions and licensure. It’s a work vehicle. I want masons to be able to get into cities with their rocks, but I want them to have to either flag out a spot because they’re working there or find an oversized vehicle spot when they aren’t. And I don’t want Steve the middle manager driving one just because he thinks they’re cool and fashions himself a bit rural
It’s only in the US that people have these massive pickup trucks for work. Here in the EU people use regular lorries for masonry work etc. Trucks that require a special license. Also ambulances and firefighter trucks are much smaller. Pickup trucks do make sense for farmers for example, but the sizes from the 60’s till 90’s are fine. They don’t have to be massively oversized. The bed size usually isn’t much bigger. In the EU the American sized micropenis trucks can barely navigate through our streets as the streets are smaller and the turn radius of those trucks are to wide for our corners. In the US they increased street size to facilitate massive vehicles at the cost of safety to pedestrians, cyclists and buildings (as people are invited to drive faster and crash into buildings when losing control). With narrow streets, speed bumps which are fine to cross at low speed and tight corners, speeding makes no sense so usually people don’t lose control and if they would, they would hit a tree (without much injury or any at all) or get to a stop when bumping onto a sidewalk ledge (which are designed to make the wheel turn back onto the road so the car won’t get onto the sidewalk). But in the US there are many roads that don’t even have sidewalks, and no cycling infrastructure what so ever. To get from your home to a supermarket 100m away you are forced to take a car as walking is too dangerous. Like, what the actual fuck.
After the second World War Rotterdam was completely destroyed. They rebuilt it like an American city. Due to the high amount of accidents, of which many had fatalities, they completely changed it to a pedestrian and cyclist friendly city within a few years. So the argument of Americans that it’s simply not possible to change an entire city (I hear this often) is bullshit. Just add more public transportation and you can use the maaaaany massive parking lots to new building sites which will only create more income (more businesses on a smaller area) than that it costs. It also removes a lot of congestion, which saves all working people a lot of money too. Every hour less in traffic is an extra hour you can work, or can spend at home with your family etc. And the air pollution will decrease, increasing health and decreasing load on the health care system. Emergency services response times will decrease. I can go on and on about why it would be better. There are many examples of cities that, show statistically why it’s better that way. If only people would follow good examples.
why should other people have a higher risk of dying just because someone has a micropenis?
Always has been. These days this just also enables “normal people” with micropenis to endanger their fellow citizens.
But micropenises basically, in all of history, sent other people to their deaths. Be it war, starvation, ouher generic atrocities, you name it.
I feel micropenis is a metaphor for something else here.
I remember when they first came out, someone tried to take an H2 down this narrow one way brick road with high curbs in our town, and managed to wedge himself in between the curbs completely stuck, threatening to shed his sideways if he went forward of backwards
LoL nice I would have just stood there and laughed at that loser
The actual HMMWV is actually a pretty cool and reasonable vehicle for medium utility tasks and off roading. What the Hummer became and what passes for consumer light trucks is ridiculous.
then it catered to SOCCER mom types, which were made absurdly large.
It’s an old geezer’s car compared to a stadium super truck, if they were street legal…
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I can’t help but think the H1 is fucking cool. They’re not that long but they are W I D E.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Leg room is shit in the humvee if you’re tall but they’re beefy bois that can crawl through damn near anything.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Damn, I’m tall
Holyginz@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Would cost an absolute fortune to fill with gas these days lol
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s diesel.
Spezi@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Life-Pro-Tip: Just reverse-power a diesel generator to produce diesel with your own solar energy.