JonI'm 6'3"and my shoulder is still below the hood of this idiotic truck. These monster American trucks are dumb.
#waste #dangerous #selfish #climate
#waste #dangerous #selfish #climate
Ged|NetYou forgot one; #Twattish
scarlett@BikingViking i stopped taking them seriously when I found out they put speakers in the inside that play car engine sounds to make it sound "manlier" to the driver
Farah@scarlett @BikingViking Lmao what??
Lily Star@scarlett @BikingViking BMW has put "Active Sound" in cars for many years, because after insulating out all the road and engine noise its too quiet inside for some!
Hisses with Geese 🌱@BikingViking I've heard them called "bro dozers".
Blake Garner@BikingViking It's big so "I'm safe" is the worst situation. We need new weight and size limits.
EmpiricismIt's all about status! Rich people want to show off their wealth.
Julius Jääskeläinen@BikingViking Anyone who knows history knows that imploding empires have a tendency to compensate by displays of absurd baroque extravagance
Jill Breivik@BikingViking I so agree! Even their European equivalents are pretty awful. I long for a neat, small, electric car.
David W. Jones@BikingViking
Compensation for their, uhh, inadequate genitalia? 😉
I'm an American and drive a Prius. So not all of us here are into monster trucks.
16 years ago, I was working downtown and watched from my office window while police chased a compact Toyoya car. It ran a red light, broadsided a Cadillac SUV... And knocked the SUV over.
Never underestimate the power of small! 😃
@NoctisEqui
Compensation for their, uhh, inadequate genitalia? 😉
I'm an American and drive a Prius. So not all of us here are into monster trucks.
16 years ago, I was working downtown and watched from my office window while police chased a compact Toyoya car. It ran a red light, broadsided a Cadillac SUV... And knocked the SUV over.
Never underestimate the power of small! 😃
@NoctisEqui
JD@dancingtreefrog @BikingViking @NoctisEqui A Prius driver ran a red light and hit clipped my wife's Honda Pilot's passenger side rear wheel. It spun HER around 360˚, totaled her vehicle, and she had PT for over a year. They might be small, but the battery weight carries a shit ton of inertia.
@Runningpunk
Sorry to hear that! She ok?
I remember reading somewhere that bumping the rear quarter panel is a standard police pursuit tactic used to make a car spin out.
What really knocked the SUV over was its high center of gravity. I think it was a model known for rolling over on tight turns, too.
But, yeah, batteries add to the weight. Although the Prius traction battery fits under the backseat, so it's not that big.
Not like those in full-electrics like Teslas!
@BikingViking @NoctisEqui
Sorry to hear that! She ok?
I remember reading somewhere that bumping the rear quarter panel is a standard police pursuit tactic used to make a car spin out.
What really knocked the SUV over was its high center of gravity. I think it was a model known for rolling over on tight turns, too.
But, yeah, batteries add to the weight. Although the Prius traction battery fits under the backseat, so it's not that big.
Not like those in full-electrics like Teslas!
@BikingViking @NoctisEqui
@Runningpunk
Also, a lot of cars are, shall we say, comparatively frail? I worked in a small print shop. The shop car was an econobox. It was rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light. The car that hit it was slowing to a stop at much less than 5 miles per hour.
The rear bumper tore loose, the car's frame was twisted, the car totaled.
But it still ran, so the shop owner bought it back from the insurer for a couple hundred dollars, and we kept using it for deliveries.
@BikingViking @NoctisEqui
Also, a lot of cars are, shall we say, comparatively frail? I worked in a small print shop. The shop car was an econobox. It was rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light. The car that hit it was slowing to a stop at much less than 5 miles per hour.
The rear bumper tore loose, the car's frame was twisted, the car totaled.
But it still ran, so the shop owner bought it back from the insurer for a couple hundred dollars, and we kept using it for deliveries.
@BikingViking @NoctisEqui
Doreen32128 ready to rumble!
Artemis@BikingViking
I hate this shit. I'm a full grown adult woman, only a couple inches shorter than the national average women's height, but a person driving that beast would never even see me when they ran me over.
And it doesn't even serve a purpose. That design is purely cosmetic.
Eric LawtonSpecifically encouraged by legislation.
*Maybe* they didn't realize this would happen in the first olace, but they've had plenty of opportunity to fix things.
> Buttigieg’s New Emissions Standards Fail to Close ‘Light Truck Loophole’
Prof Prachi SrivastavaThey're also extremely dangerous. One of these, not exactly one of these, rear-ended me whilst I was stationary. Still recovering.
Jerry D. Harris 🦕👣@BikingViking I like them only because then I know at a glance who's deeply insecure with themselves. Otherwise, yes, they're dangerous, wasteful, and irresponsible.
Raymond Neilson has moved to cosocial.ca@BikingViking If I had a rocket launcher
I'd make some Chevy pay
I'd make some Chevy pay
Dylan@BikingViking states should start instituting weight taxes on vehicles.
Dustin Rue@BikingViking @chad these new trucks from GM drive me bonkers as well. What we doing?
w0dzthe storm has passed
they say, and sling
their oversized ass
into a metal thing
shaped like a car
the way an elephant
is like a mouse
and drive right out
to their backwoods house
and reminisce
about all the fish
that grandad caught
where the sparkling river
used to be
then back to town
in their suv
to buy more gas
for the next day's driving
just in time
for the storm clouds'
rising
(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️🌈@BikingViking Penis replacements, in my estimation...
Mike Fraser@BikingViking Agreed! That enough truck to haul the groceries around in?
David@BikingViking WTF is that thing? America is so broken in even more ways than I thought.
50sFarmGirl 🇨🇦@BikingViking It is beyond idiocy!
Geri 🎻@BikingViking @notjustbikes But please try to understand that they need it for grocery runs!
scf@BikingViking I'm assuming it was lifted and not stock. Did you check?
Our Wonderful Green Future
random thoughts@BikingViking They are also invading foreign countries.
The numbers of SUV in England is insane, and our roads are not built for them.
Juggling With Eggs@BikingViking great strides have been made in the past 20 years in terms of car passenger safety…but crash test dummies are still based on average sized men and they are put inside the vehicle. Could we see child and women sized crash test dummy pedestrians used in testing please…then maybe these monstrosities would be banished.
Serge 🔻@BikingViking well, it’s this or never having an erection ever again. What would you do?
At least they’re not prancing around with loaded weapons as a security blanket so they can feel safe while not hiding behind their couch. Oh, wait…
JamesI drive an SUV - which isn't small - and on my commute one arse in a truck will consistently come up behind me, ride my bumper, halfway over the traffic line (with one headlight dead centered on my bumper.
And his headlight is near the top of my rear window.
James Harvey@BikingViking As some who actually uses a pickup for carrying stuff around, the load bed of these mega vehicles are usually too high to actually be of any use for their intended purpose…
PaulNickson 🕊️🎛️🎼@BikingViking How screwed up is it when you need a sodding ladder just to check the coolant or the screen wash?!
Zukunftskontor@BikingViking reminds me of #Germanangst; i.e. limbic brain taking over making not well thought of decisions in Germany … #USAngst is also a thing ain‘t?
#psychoticsociety #dystopia #angst #killyourneighbour before he kills you society
#psychoticsociety #dystopia #angst #killyourneighbour before he kills you society
The Great Llama 
@BikingViking
I'm actually less bothered by the ultra tall hood than I am by the tires that stick out a a foot past the fenders... especially when one of them decides to merge into a lane I'm already using.
I'm actually less bothered by the ultra tall hood than I am by the tires that stick out a a foot past the fenders... especially when one of them decides to merge into a lane I'm already using.
Joy Denebeim@BikingViking bet it's owned by a MAGAt.
MissMorgan@BikingViking No son algo práctico o utilitario. Los veo como una herramienta más de ostentación. Ocupan mucho espacio en la ciudad, al circular, pero también en estacionamiento. Es un problema de falta de empatía y cero conciencia ecológica. 😤
Grant 
@BikingViking I wouldn't say the problem is the truck but people that buy them and don't ever use them for there intended purpose.