Sadly, we cannot really ban them as they are utility vehicles that a small portion of the population needs. However, I still see freakin' ads that frame them as fancy cars.

“The new Amarok V6. Pick-up truck for every day. Powerful and comfortable”

I suggest making it illegal to have them in any color other than matte excavator yellow (for construction) or green camo (for hunting and forestry).

As someone with a utilitarian need for a truck in the US, you are correct. I m7ch rather drive a Fiat Panda than my 2013 Tundra. However, I try to keep my lights low (they are adjustable from inside the cab) so as not to blind others when on the road.

Still, there should be a federal ban on these stupid things, annd these, not to mention a federal law regulating how high headlights can be from the road (looking at you Ford F-250)

Its not just SUVs in western Europe, EU crash regulations for cars hitting pedestrians have forced cars to be higher and taller at the front. Unless the seating position also rises then you lose visibility of the very front of the car. If the seating position has to rise then so does the roof and this often means the floor rises too.

Sure, these ridiculous American trucks are far far worse, and SUVs are just generally bad, but its normal cars as well.

The Homer Simpson car, while it has its faults, is unironically better than everything in the SUV market.

1. Sure it's got the pop up logo triangle, but the front is still overall better.

2. Great viability, check out that dome. The design choices naturally focus the server outside the car rather than on instruments.

3. Back seats also have a big dome to look out and realise there is a world outside the car, it's not just an iPad screen to fast-travel. Again, the focus is on what's outside the vehicle, not in it.

4. On screens, there in not a single screen in that car.

5. Low-loading height, height clearance, deep truck. Probably more on par with a van than an SUV.

6. Low laying headlamps with standard incandescent bulbs, nothing that can temporarily blind people.

Sure it has rear-view viability issues, and the horn (and multitude of horn buttons) is problematic. But the Homer Simpson car is a good people and stuff mover. Could probably do without the shag carpeting though.

They don't want us to have cool cars anymore. Just ugly, oversized cruise ships that steal our data and try to drive themselves.

Ohhhh So the title of the article was directed towards pedestrians, not car murder enthusiasts