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American XXL pickups are becoming a problem in Germany (www.handelsblatt.com)

submitted 1 day ago by EmileDurkheik@lemm.ee to c/EU_Economics@lemm.ee

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[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am so sorry y'all gotta deal with these stupid fucking trucks. They are MASSIVE but they don't have any bigger truck beads or hauling capacity than trucks of years past. Absolutely a joke.

Inefficient because they have the aerodynamics of a brick. Dangerous to pedestrians due to the crazy high front hoods. Dangerous again because no matter how calibrated those headlights are they are 5 feet in the air and just blinding the shit out of everyone.

I'm generally against telling people what they can and cannot drive bot those trucks are not it. Maybe in a farm where it's never used in the road sure. But around other vehicles they just don't work.

[+] Pistcow@lemm.ee -6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Read above but I will say the safety features are there for pedestrians. Break assist/warning saved this toddler from being roadkill once. I was driving through a neighborhood very slowly as I saw a family getting out of the car, like 5 mph or less. As I nearly cross the plane of their front hood this toddler comes bolting out like Sonic collected all the chaos emeralds. My truck beeped loud AF and slammed the breaks. Have the dash cam video and all. If it wasn't for that safety feature, regardless how safe I was and eyeing that area as the family got out, that kid would have been dead. We wife, a kindergarten teacher most calm person you'd meet, so shaken got out chewed out the parents for not holding their kid's hand.

I still think the damn trucks are too big and I'd give up that crew cab for a 6 foot bed.

[–] x1gma@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Safety features like that are great for any type of car, and might help you react if you react too late. They shouldn't be there because you literally couldn't react without them because you simply wouldn't even see the danger.

This is literally a street tank for no reason at all.

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah.... No. Even with all the safety features in the world they still need to change the front hoods to be lower down. They still hit pedestrians all the time here in the states and they have an unbelievable high fatality rates because of those high hoods. More of the energy transfers into the person as as opposed to turning it into vertical/rolling them over the hood on other vehicles.

The same speed accident on the same size/weight pedestrian with a Honda Civic and a Dodge ram 3700 tiny dick edition will have extremely different results. The civic would probably break legs but they would otherwise be alright after rolling over the hood of the car. The huge dodge ram would just kill a person if they can't roll over the hood because instead of spreading out that energy transfer with them rolling over the hood you are just instantly dumping into their torso/head all at once.

https://lloydalter.substack.com/p/study-higher-hoods-higher-speeds

Safety aids are good, but proper design for when those safety aids fail or can't work is more important.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I've been looking at Japanese kei trucks, at half the size and much lower, and can tell you there is nothing in this world other than that safety feature that would have saved that child. Even riding a bicycle at the same speed I would most definitely have fucked up that kid.

After that, we traded in my wife's 2018 Subura Legacy, fully paid off, for a 2024 Suburu Legacy that was identical in nearly every way but had the automatic breaking feature. 2018 was $23k new and the 2024 was $32k. Killed of fucked up how much the msrp increased on the same make and model but that feature alone saves lives and now we have a $400 monthly payment for it.

That said, I know many people that drive those big trucks that even hate the idea of a back up camera. These people go out of their way to by Chinese products to disable these safety features. Again, I'd like to downsize these vehicles too but I can't buy a Gen 1 2000 Toyota Tacoma because it would be missing important safety features.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

I mean my 2020 Toyota Tacoma is bigger than my dad's 1970 Ford F250. My mid-size truck is a jumbo truck compared to anything built before 1990. I'd really like a small pickup with a 6 foot bed but I have this 17 foot long monster with a 5 foot bed.