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Tab CombsThe kid's grown six inches in two years and still isn't tall enough to be seen over the hood of these ridiculous death machines prowling our neighborhood streets.
anyone who thinks the problem with these trucks can be solved with radars or cameras has not been paying attention
Tom Bellin 
@DrTCombs the problem, as they say, is between the seat and the steering wheel.
Bas (Tools on Tech)@tob @DrTCombs it's however not where the solution is. I enjoy driving small efficient cars, but after 3 days in Florida I switched my rental to an suv so I could see. Realized why Europe has regulations on this. You still have massive trucks, but the hood is angled so you can see what's in front of you.
Mx Verda@toolsontech @tob @DrTCombs
I actively search for a small city car in the UK but my current one is basically as small as they go already.
I actively search for a small city car in the UK but my current one is basically as small as they go already.
Ricardo Magalhaes@DrTCombs I just feel sick watching this. The amount of these monsters in the CITY, emphasis on CITY, of Montreal, is appalling. No one needs these in the city (and arguably, nowhere) to do their monthly Costco shop.
I've started making little pamphlets with similar images (from the media) and sneaking them into their windshields, but I'm genuinely afraid of getting beaten up one day for violating their windshield freedom...
Cattivo Strega ✅bonafide🇨🇦They are here in Vancouver, too.
I drive an ancient corolla. I can’t see the traffic past these vehicles.
They cause accidents even when they aren’t involved.
(((Cindy Weinstein)))@theteapixie @magalhini @DrTCombs. They are ubiquitous and make driving treacherous and walking, which I love to do, fatal. Here's hoping to 9 lives.
Callisto@theteapixie @DrTCombs That's a larger issue than the height of the vehicles. A motorist can't see through the windows of an ordinary van or panel truck ahead of them, either. Many don't even have any. Generally I hate technological solutions, but like backup cameras, I think the best solution to that problem is to require a rear-mounted screen displaying the feed from a front-facing camera on any vehicle that doesn't have a clear line of sight through the windshield from behind.
Jop Havinga
joe ching@theteapixie
There's nothing accidental about someone choosing to drive these monsters around, blocking everyone's view of the road, and hampering situational awareness leading to collisions.
These people should be held responsible for the damage they cause. They are not causing accidents but chaos.
Rajnhildo Ursidino 
@magalhini @DrTCombs A single person can probably do their monthly costco shop on a mountain bicycle with a makeshift trailer. And the mountain bicycle will get them both into and out of trouble in the mud faster.
Mark M. Evans@magalhini I call these ridiculous vehicles codpieces. I keep hoping it will catch on.
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joel b@magalhini @DrTCombs post the flyers. If anyone who drives one of those trucks can actually catch me they deserve to try to beat me up.
hallunke23 🇺🇦
@magalhini @DrTCombs Germany here. Why is your Costco so far from your home that you need to use a car?? Here in Halle (Saale), I have 5 (five) grocery stores (Edeka, E-Center (franchised), Norma, Netto w/dog, Netto w/o dog) within a range of 1 km. No need to drive as I can walk. Looks like urban planning, specifically zoning on your side of the pond needs some changes.
Apicultor 🐝@hallunke23 @magalhini @DrTCombs >Looks like urban planning, specifically zoning on your side of the pond needs some changes.
What an epic understatement.
Melvin Gundlach
AlexisDyslexic@hallunke23 @magalhini @DrTCombs Costco isn't a grocery store. It has groceries, but it was meant to be for small buisness owners and sells everything in bulk. It requires a membership and feels exclusive but doesn't require a tax id (that a small buisness would have). It gets used by suburbanites (and every middle class American thinks they are part of the business class) and they drive there in trucks & SUV to buy oversized items. I actually love Costco but this mentality is a problem.
@alexisdyslexic @magalhini @DrTCombs Ah, ok, I didn't know that. So Costco is more like Metro. But Metro is inaccessible to me because I don't have a business registration atm.
Aletheia@hallunke23 @alexisdyslexic @magalhini @DrTCombs They also (at least around here) only put a Costco on the beltway around a city. They are meant for the suburbanites, not the city dwellers.
@Aletheia_E @hallunke23 @magalhini @DrTCombs yeah I had a Costco membership for a year when I lived in NYC because I was helping run a business and it didn't even make sense then. There were plenty of actual warehouses I could use that required the tax id. And I didn't have enough room at either my business or my apt to store bulk items.
Bob K Mertz 
@bobkmertz @magalhini @DrTCombs Food deserts? You mean, those areas that don't have any grocery stores so you have to drive like 10 km or so to reach a store? Actually, I already heard of those. But we don't have that over here.
@hallunke23
Yea but it's more about the reason it's like that. It's a game to optimize profits for certain corporations at the cost of people's health.
@magalhini @DrTCombs
Yea but it's more about the reason it's like that. It's a game to optimize profits for certain corporations at the cost of people's health.
@magalhini @DrTCombs
@hallunke23 I actually moved from Berlin to North America a few years ago, so I know how good (most of) Europe gets it. Cities, like mine (Montreal), all have groceries stores within walking distance, but the suburbs are absolutely deserted of businesses, including grocery shops. It’s a miserable and costly mistake of urban planning that North America will pay for centuries.
@DrTCombs bonus points for parking on the sidewalk so people who use mobility aids can't get past it
culpaplexAs there is no practical reason for this, these are literally murdermobiles. How anyone can look at these fronts and not immediately imagine a cartoon villain cackling at the wheel is alien to me.
2xfo
💥meta physical deflationist💥@DrTCombs im concerned if we use the current chevy truck model each yeah and the same girl we will find ourselves i 2034 with a 5ft high, taller than 30% of adult population, as the norm
Bill, organizer of stuff@DrTCombs I just want a plug-in hybrid Maverick!
BeckySay@DrTCombs it’s crazy the kind of vehicles that are allowed on the road. I know I’m old, but we used to actually have regulations
TobiWanKenobiI'm surprised they haven't added spikes or something to the front for easier removal of smaller obstacles. /s
-> @haileys.quest
Ratboy (reformed dino pirate)@DrTCombs and also in the 2022 picture, taking up 3/4 of the sidewalk. How appropriately American.
Lomaxcat@DrTCombs
The design of these trucks is ridiculous. We have a farm, and actually use a truck, and the best truck we have ever had was an F150 full bed, regular cab, standard, work truck built in 1985. Likely looks like a toy next to these stupid things, but could outwork any of them all day long and could be repaired in the field if need be. I drive a 2008 Corolla for daily stuff, and it's impossible to see around these behemoth trucks in parking lots or on the road.
The design of these trucks is ridiculous. We have a farm, and actually use a truck, and the best truck we have ever had was an F150 full bed, regular cab, standard, work truck built in 1985. Likely looks like a toy next to these stupid things, but could outwork any of them all day long and could be repaired in the field if need be. I drive a 2008 Corolla for daily stuff, and it's impossible to see around these behemoth trucks in parking lots or on the road.
Thomas Fuglseth@Lomaxcat @DrTCombs The beds of modern pickups have actually shrunk quite a lot (and as someone else mentioned, since they are so tall it is harder to actually get stuff onto the bed). So they're a lot less useful for what you'd actually want a pickup truck for.
Pretty good article on the subject here:
https://www.axios.com/2023/01/23/pickup-trucks-f150-size-weight-safety
Cykonot@DrTCombs i had to cross the street with a modified one that couldn't see me and had loud music so they couldn't hear me. They almost hit me but i had been gesturing at their passenger, who stopped them.
Im 5'8" without shoes.
I think you'd have had to be more like 6' to bee seen over the central intake hood thingy, though 5'10 would be fine elsewhere... You don't even really get in trouble for killing people with your vehicle. No jail. Just an "accident."
These trucks need banned.
Gurre Vildskägg@cykonot @DrTCombs
Full agreement. Straight up ban.
Introduce strict design regulations that require direct lines of sight from shortest legal driver comfortably seated to 2 year old at all points along the front. And crash regs that require impact at knee or lower on adults, falling on hood. Etc. For sedans, trucks, delivery vans, etc etc.
Full agreement. Straight up ban.
Introduce strict design regulations that require direct lines of sight from shortest legal driver comfortably seated to 2 year old at all points along the front. And crash regs that require impact at knee or lower on adults, falling on hood. Etc. For sedans, trucks, delivery vans, etc etc.
AURonline 🏡@cykonot @Gurre @DrTCombs so basically, what the EU does. Here, the regulations also take the other participants of a crash into account to reduce the damage for these. For example, the hood must be designed in a way that a pedestrian is directed over the car instead of under it. That regulation helps to reduce the number of deaths and severity of injuries and is the reason, why the Cybertruck with its current design is not legal in Europe.
AlonealastalovedalongtheI need to get some "child murderer" bumper stickers to slap on these puppies
ClickyMcTicker@Alonealastalovedalongthe @DrTCombs Child Pulverizer for the front bumper
Neia masks@DrTCombs They grow up so fast (the trucks, that is)
Reiner Jung 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@DrTCombs Well the kid is not growing fast enough. Maybe taller shoes or stilts are the way to go.
We can obviously not build smaller cars because our core identity. So stilts is the way to go.
(Edit: Ok, my attempt at a humorous apropos kinda blew up, so just making sure credit is given to the original creator @jensorensen)
emailgeek@emailgeek @DrTCombs @Uglesett @SheDrivesMobility I am especially fond of the "crime" of short walking.
Since the author credits are a bit anonymous in the image, here's the link to the artist's page for the comic:
https://jensorensen.com/2022/12/07/truck-suv-frontover-blind-zone-cartoon/
https://jensorensen.com/2022/12/07/truck-suv-frontover-blind-zone-cartoon/
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