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Tab Combs Mar 18, 2024

The 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.

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Cykonot Mar 18, 2024

@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.

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Gurre Vildskägg Mar 18, 2024

@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.

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Cykonot Mar 18, 2024

@Gurre @DrTCombs crash test data needs to start protecting EVERYONE.

The fact that the cybertruck's manufacturer proudly claims it will DESTROY other vehicles is simply not acceptable.

I don't like this race to the bottom re: safety (and fuel efficiency / road wear/ etc)

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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.