Dan MorenSep 10, 2024
Let'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
The US finally takes aim at truck bloat

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed new rules that would require automakers to redesign vehicles to better protect pedestrians.

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@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"

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@dmoren at that time, I owned nine tractors, two trucks and a chest freezer manufactured by The International Harvester Corporation between 1953 and 1973.