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A couple of people that drive massive vehicles they don’t need like Escalades have told me (former practicing psychologist) over the years that they know they are bad drivers, but they want to drive a tank so they can walk away from whatever accidents they know they’ll cause.
Because practicing and improving their driving skills is apparently not on the table. The lack of empathy is unsettling. They don’t care who they kill, they just don’t want to be inconvenienced.
Usually the affluent spouse type.
I think this shows some of the bigger issues in car centric design. Even if you don’t like driving, aren’t good at it, or aren’t comfortable with it, you often have to do it anyway beceause there are no viable alternatives.
Gotta have more real estate for factory lights… Starting to see trucks with eight lights on the front going down down the road.
The ironic part is that the high beams usually disable all the aux lights, so if you see a newer truck with only two lights, it’s probably got the high beams on, and if they turn it back to low beams to be “courteous”, it turns on all the others and ends up being worse than if they’d just left the fucking high beams on.
I don’t really give a shit about the penile compensation aspect of “muh bigguh truck”, but fuck your wall of lights…
Man, I drive a truck, 500 a month, will be paid off in less than 2 years, I get a lot of utility out of it and I got it from my brother who put some nice tires on it
But I also hate it because it’s so fuckin big, and I hate that people might think I’m a truck freak, but it’s just my only good option right now
I feel you. We need a truck for occasional use, so we got a high mileage retired work truck for really cheap. It’s bare bones with manual windows and no power locks but it has dual rear tires and a flatbed, so it’s perfect for when we or a neighbor needs to haul big shit. Unfortunately, so many people now assume I’m a dick size compensating fascist on the rare occasions I drive it. My wife and I are thinking of getting the cab wrapped in a rainbow with a big purple, glittery unicorn right across the hood.
I got a little jeep renegade that runs me like 350 a month…
First time I put gas in it and realized it had a 12 gallon tank, I was all like “OMG, why?!?”. Then I drove 300 miles before the light came on and It made perfect sense :)
Full tank doesn’t even get halfway to the $100 mark where you gotta reset the pump to fill it the rest of the way, ya know?
500 a month could treat you a lot better at the gas pump.
What? Really? We just tell Congress, surely more data will have them regulate car size immediately. /s with a sigh.
When a certain popular president and congress passed the bail-out of the domestic vehicle industry, written by the same in 2008 that allowed such vehicles to be more profitable then a smaller cars, he was awarded a noble prize and reelected in a landslide.
Would cattle scoop style front ends save lives? The point would need to be crumply plastic for auto collisions, but i wonder if designing for deflection would legitimately benefit pedestrian collision survivability.
Man people really will jump through hoops to make it possible to change nothing about the design of cities and pedestrain safety. Even these massive trucks could be safer if the roads were better designed to minimizse pedestrian and car conflicts, but those designs often slow cars down so we will never see it in North America.
Also a far better option than a cattle scoop would be downward angled hoods. It would provide a similar effect but also provide better visibility which could help reduce collisions with pedestrians.
Vehicle design prioritizing pedestrian survivability is beneficial regardless of urban design, though admittedly an optimal design will depend on median speed of the vehicle.in pedestrian areas.
Return to retro 1940s rounded truck hoods is honestly an inevitable design shift at some point, as fashion always cycles, but the aerodynamics and fuel efficiency standards are against it.
