@DrTCombs Waiting for the retro fit arms that school buses have 🤷♂️
I used to drive large trucks for work in rural areas years ago, and I hated the visibility for this reason. Why on earth would someone want the liability and immense guilt of killing someone with such a personal vehicle nowadays, is beyond me.
@JSkier@DrTCombs@BroGle I often wonder what is at the heart of it. Seriously. Maybe those guys wanted to do construction or something but were repeatedly told that they’d better get a business degree (or something equally as boring. No offense). What type of midlife crises would require that purchase?
@MeeMee@DrTCombs@BroGle I live in an urban area. Comical when I see construction managers, usually landscapers, with nice trucks that aren't even used for any of their intended uses 😆 Honestly, I'd rather see the managers show up in an EV or Hybrid. That kind of excess for a paper pushing sales person just looks bad 🤷♂️
@DrTCombs safety concerns aside; can we talk about how ugly the design is? A front end that tall is like a hat on a hat. It's the truck equivalent of a 12 blade razor. These things are going to look as tacky as wood panels and rocket fins
Perhaps now more than ever we should teach children two important rules about the road. 1) Why are you in the road? 2) Raise your hand to be seen.
The latter works in schools when kids want to ask questions. Why not enforce that on the roads so they can be seen there, too? This is a lot quicker of a solution than while we await those giant, and seemingly unnecessary trucks, off the roads.
Protect your kids. Teach them to raise their hands and not play in the roads.
@mambear404@DrTCombs Where I live (a quaint little hamlet called NYC), people drive these things on the sidewalk. I'll be sure to tell my kids to raise their hands at them, though.
@DrTCombs That's just absurd, and the fact that the #NHTSA does not demand #CrashCoimpatibility with every kind of traffic participant is outrageous...
@kkarhan@DrTCombs@notjustbikes anything over one and a half tons was made an exception. No crash testing, no safety measures. No fuel economy rules.
And yet they sell them as “safer”.
In return it doesn't dostinguish between "commercial" and non+commercial driving since people are allowed to drive everything passing tech inspection, being safe to drive, they have insured properly and they can legally drive.
So commercial use does require commercial insurance.
@bluGill@DrTCombs@notjustbikes@peterbrown Needless to say it's illegal to park a vehicle >2,8t on the curb becaise that's - if in doubt - the maximum load bearing of any road.
@kkarhan@bluGill@DrTCombs@notjustbikes I think it comes as a surprise to some drivers to discover that the kerb is actually to keep drivers off the pavement (which is there for the benefit of pedestrians, not as a convenient parking area for drivers.) 🙄
And also as a way to provide level access to buses on bus stops and as a guide to the gutter so water goes into the sewers and doesn't flood pavement or road surface.
BTW: Roads in Germany do are angled at about 7° from the middle of it to reduce risk of aquaplaning, with the exception of banked turns which may have a higher angle OFC...
@kkarhan@DrTCombs@notjustbikes while I agree that all vehicles should be rated similarly, I have never agreed to the whole size argument or that we need tiny vehicles in cities. Or that we need to tax vehicles to keep “unnecessary” traffic from busy streets.
What we need are smarter design for city access, robotic driving and parking. Certainly, what NO ONE needs are millions of tiny electric or gas-powered vehicles.
OFC efficient taxi/riksha services can complement that (see #Bangkok) and for a lot of small deliveries, bikes and scooters make more sense than cars (see #Cologne and #Saigon)...
If anything is more convenient than a #car, noone.wants to have it anyway unless they have no option whatsoever (see #Netherlands)...
@kkarhan@DrTCombs@notjustbikes this just confirms what I said earlier. Bikes and bike parking are not awesome solutions to anything. It merely moves the problem it fails to solve.
@kkarhan@DrTCombs@notjustbikes these things clutter escalators, elevators, streets and even offices pointlessly. I thought mass transit could be more beneficial, but this doesn’t work, either. Most people have one or two destinations in mind. If they can reach those automatically and with zero-delay on an on-demand or have those locations reach them, that will serve.
Changing vehicle behavior to make the vehicle an extension of the driver…
@kkarhan@DrTCombs@notjustbikes …also serves. It’s not that vehicles are large, it’s that they are poorly designed so the driver cannot see what is immediately in front of the vehicle. This is also true for trucks, many busses and other vehicles so trying to make SUVs take the fall is just bullshit.
What the video should have stated is that we have come a far distance with automobiles and now require better smarter vehicles, faster…
That may mean we file a flight plan for busy cities, like pilots do for busy or restricted areas. Or for simple safety. The automated systems then control the vehicle as they approach a managed spaces. In my case, I’d be dropped off for work and my vehicle can go home, go to a parking area or employ itself usefully…
@kkarhan@DrTCombs@notjustbikes driving others around via automated Uber or Lyft. When I am ready to leave, the managed space controller schedules the vehicle to pick me up.
Claiming the vehicle size or classification is a dodge, just a nonsesnse code to try to eliminate vehicles over a ridiculous argument based on size. Nonsense! Why not just claim that cherry red convertibles driven by gorgeous, big-boobed blondes are too distracting and…
The few #PickUp|s I saw were almost exclusively used by some contractors i.e. Gardeners who use them to haul some bags of dirt, Sand, Gravel or bushes and hedges to customers and throw dirty shovels on...
@kkarhan@DrTCombs@notjustbikes cause unnecessary deaths? Or beige corvettes are so boring that yawning caused the death? It’s completely arbitrary.
Make the vehicle smarter. Design and build better, smarter roads, install automated systems to manage the space. Require a planned entry and exit system for all vehicles.
This video only succeeded in making me want an SUV because of the internal space would make my driving experience…
@kkarhan@DrTCombs@notjustbikes signicantly more enjoyable. I’ll certainly never vote to remove these vehicles based on false and misleading argumentation in this video. In fact, if I could bring a large school bus daily into the city, I’d do that.
This entire topic is complete crap. The arguments are entirely arbitrary and false and serve only to obfuscate real problems with false blame and false solutions.
@kkarhan@DrTCombs@notjustbikes oh, yeah, and stop telling me it’s impossible to air-condition the entire New York City subway system when we just spent $10B on one fucking station.
@kkarhan@DrTCombs@notjustbikes air conditioning is more than moving heat. It controls humidity. Hence, the conditioning part. Moving air flow just replaces moist air with more wet air. The city is by the sea.
@kkarhan@DrTCombs@notjustbikes it still does not solve the problem. The behavior of the vehicle is the issue, not the size of the vehicle is the problem.
@kkarhan@DrTCombs@notjustbikes not reducing the need to drive - that economic engine is a vast powerhouse for the economy. Say, rather, reduce the negative fallout of driving. The pollution, the delays, all the deaths.
Say that, while multiplying mobility of the individual.
I don’t disagree from work from home. There is no reason to a pointless office commute. But I compketely disagree with the rest at a foundational level because every…
@kkarhan@DrTCombs@notjustbikes solution merely moves the problem. It does not address the foundational problems. We address those and the rest falls away.
Not to mention that we see #DeliveryServices to get more and more adopted and offered beyond #TakeOut and #Groceries and this will pnly increase as #Retail fails to deliver #AddedValue to justify it's existance for more and more occasions...
@chrizzly_astrophotography@DrTCombs TBH at least that thing is electric, and actually has sort of decent front visibility, it seems like a child would actually be visible if standing in front of it.
But yea, people living in cities do not need trucks at all to begin with, they're only useful if you have a use for them, driving to the grocery store and bringing back a ton of groceries is something you can do on a bike if you'd want to
@anthropy@DrTCombs Fair point. Makes me wonder if these cars will need these stickers "angles morts" (blind spot) on the side of the vehicle at one point - like the big hauling trucks in EU are obligated to, lol
@chrizzly_astrophotography@DrTCombs hah, I would love to see those stickers becoming mandatory over there, and in proper visible places too, preferably as clashing with the aesthetic as possible
@racs oh if you just want to flame that's fine too, it'll just amuse me, but I was hoping maybe there'd be more thoughts behind those eyes than a bunch of empty swearing :3
@racs haha, I'm asexual and into vore, so you might want to dig up something a bit more on point than just your standard gay things :P
Also, makes me wonder, a good portion of the people that use gay as a slur are closeted gay, I sincerely do hope you have at least the freedom and environment where you can be yourself and don't have to put up troll-facades just to fit in. If you do want to ever have a normal conversation, we can always switch, I'm not angry or anything heh
@racs it's still precious that your main MO is to just swear and attempt personal attacks, it says a lot more about you and what you care about than you'd think ;)
And no, that was a genuine opening in case you wanted to just talk. Feel free to switch to DMs if that helps. I've spent plenty of time swearing online, I kinda got bored of that, I'd much rather be able to actually help people, and make friends, than enemies. But it's up to you of course
@racs regardless of how you personally view the things I like and care about, I'm doing quite well in life, so I don't really feel offended by anyone thinking certain ways about the things I like.
I could call you mentally ill for going around spending your time online just attacking people, but really I don't care or judge, I just want to see the world flourish, call me crazy, it won't make a difference to me :P
@racs that's so adorable! How did you learn about this subject? By talking with edgy friends that only communicate in slurs and offensive memes? Or did you actually experience war and genocide? :P
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The average American man is 5'9", so it's not even like you're that short. I can't imagine a couple extra inches of height would make it any easier to do that.
Who are these trucks for except insecure men with fragile egos?
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I have not peered into an engine compartment lately, but I doubt the motor needs quite that much cubic footage in space. There may be enough room to run laps.
@Streetsweeper@DrTCombs The engine compartment probably has enough room for a sofa, TV, and probably also a whole kitchen with a full sized fridge. Unless the engine is meant to go into a real truck, tank or boat, it has no reason to be that large.
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The radiator defines the size not the engine. Can't haul a heavy trailer up pikes peak on a hot day with the AC running without a big radiator upfront . Some reviewers have started doing this so car makers respond by making it work.
@Streetsweeper reviewers don't care about your kids. The question is how can you become in influencer and thus be important for truck designers to listen to?
@bluGill@DrTCombs@Streetsweeper But people buying this aren't hauling big trailers around. They're using them as their get around the damn suburbs car.
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