Paul Dippold
Dan MorenLet's fucking go. Cars are too goddamn big. Good on NHTSA. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/10/24241047/nhtsa-rule-pedestrian-safety-fmvss-suv-truck-design
Tony Tsobanis@dmoren well overdue. I vaguely recall reading the reason for the growth in the US was due to lower tax when cars were above a certain size and classified as trucks. Wonder if that’s correct and if they are tackling that issue
Anne Ominous@tonytsobanis @dmoren nah, it was an emissions (not tax) loophole that was exploited
https://newrepublic.com/article/180263/epa-tailpipe-emissions-loophole
Dane Deasy@dmoren I bet the Supreme Court says they can’t regulate this next year
Chad Geidel@danedeasy @dmoren That's exactly what I was thinking. Now that Chevron is struck down, the federal agencies will be hamstrung in the courts by conservative billionaire-funded lawsuits.
Alex Padilla@dmoren is it bad that my first reaction to this was “eh, but automakers will lobby and nothing will change”?
Pepperbike@alexpadilla @dmoren That was my reaction too.
Sean Riley
JP@dmoren i'm guessing right wing truck guys will react to this in exceedingly Normal ways
Apply Pants Directly to Dog@dmoren good, here’s hoping it inspires the big 3 to start making sedans again.
The Turtle@chuckpebble @dmoren doubtful.
@dmoren cars are about what they are. Our 2017 Vw is actually smaller than my 1996 VW TDi Passat wagon.
The worry is white bros with limp dicks who buy plastic pickup trucks that are eight feet high.
I owned this truck for years. My dick is ok.
Teach Honest History@dmoren The toxic-masculinity crowd will go absolutely ape-shit over this. How can they dominate everyone without their 3 ton Garguntubator XLs?
TheFwGuy 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇺🇸🖖@Cliftographer @dmoren I don't even think the problem is wanting to dominate. they want to be acknowledged, to show that they exists. Their life must be so empty and useless to feel the need of a big car. Pathetic.
Sluether 
@dmoren it's about damn time!
@dmoren IMHO the problem has at least two viariables and one of them is the lack of self respect of too many people that"need" a big car to say "look at me how successfull I am". People with HUGE inferiority complex (paradoxical uh ?)
SFaulken@dmoren I mean, I *am* a truck guy, and even I think they're too damned big.
gavinisdie 
@dmoren wasn't expecting this for today, but I'm glad there's something being done about truck bloat
@dmoren this truck, a 1969 International Harvester 1500D, rated for a load capacity of 17,000 pounds (meaning it could carry three plastic multi-dollar trucks)
It was nearly all steel. It could pull stumps.
"That's when a truck was a truck
And groovin' was groovin'!
Dancing was everything
And bumpers that looked liked guard rails scared the living fuck out of Hyundais..."
- john mellencamp, "cherry wine"
@dmoren at that time, I owned nine tractors, two trucks and a chest freezer manufactured by The International Harvester Corporation between 1953 and 1973.
Teknikal_DomainThe US finally takes aim at truck bloat
I mean, the US caused the truck bloat in the first place (due to emissions standards), which makes the headline kinda funny
But yes, finally.
AlexanderMars@dmoren driving a large SUV or Truck should automatically count as evidence of culpability if a pedestrian is injured or killed.
Marcus Baynes-Rock@dmoren Your American penis compensators are infecting Australia now. Nothing says insecurity and selfishness like an oversized pick-up
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐@dmoren "NHTSA says the changes could save up to 67 lives every year. "
"Between 2013 and 2022, pedestrian fatalities increased 57 percent, from 4,779 to 7,522, NHTSA reports."
Something doesn't add up here.
Zaͩnͦsͤt̀́rͤa̅̆̈@dmoren @codinghorror You would have thought the EU would lead… But this is also good!
yoused@dmoren We need a law that all headlights can be no higher than 2' off the road.
Dan W@dmoren @angiebaby
What is more impressive is that they acknowledge that pedestrian protection systems are garbage and that there is no substitute for having smaller vehicles and responsible drivers.
Now they need to legislate about vehicles that claim to be self-driving.
DB SchweinAb fab.
I really hope that "67" is missing a couple zeroes!
Debbie Belair@dmoren And much too noisy.