Keep these monstrosities off our roads 🙅‍♂️

[illuminatus@mstdn.social]

@fj At least we can quantify the masculinity deficit of some people.

[richlv@mastodon.social]

@reloadedhead @fj Because they endanger others, use way more space and it also encourages driving like pricks.
Or is it just making pricks more visible?

[gadgetboy@gadgetboy.social]

@fj I moved to Austin, Texas 10 years ago from the NYC metro area. Seeing these trucks on the road is *still* a sight to behold. Just ridiculous.

[cm@chaos.social]

@fj Pet peeve: when you make sharepics for a good cause, don't compare apples to oranges. Point in case: I don't know about US cars, but I am sure the small Renault Twingo in that size ended production in 2007, the current model is somewhat wider and longer.

[sanzky@masto.es]

@fj I sometimes see the Ford Ranger, which is a "small" pickup per US standards and it's already ridiculously large. I hope we never see those monstrosities here.

But UVDL will UVDL and she might cave to them

[cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com]

@Bredroll @fj and small appendages

[sanzky@masto.es]

@cm @fj even "large" european SUVs are smaller than the monsters the US has

(peugeot 5008 vs cadillac escalade)

[residuum@digitalcourage.social]

@fj
One of those times, where the Simpsons predicted the present.

https://youtu.be/PI_Jl5WFQkA

[menos@todon.eu]

@reloadedhead If you absolutely want to be an asshole, you can *have* such a vehicle alright. Drive it on your own lot, no problem. Public space is public, so the public makes the rules. We don't let people decide whether they want to take a dump in front of your doorstep or not either.
@fj

[oneiros@ruhr.social]

@fj
Just regulate it as a truck.

[alisonw@hachyderm.io]

@fj
The term BCSD applies.

[rin3d@mastodon.social]

@fj Ok ik American trucks are massive, but could you atleast have used a graphic that actually compares trucks and not the smallest form factor style car against a vehicle that *has* to be large enough to haul stuff.

[rin3d@mastodon.social]

@killionaire @fj yep stupid government tied emissions requirements to foot print size and shits been getting bigger ever since.

[mbirth@social.mbirth.uk]

@reloadedhead @fj

[gsymon@mstdn.social]

@fj

The size is to do with certain Americans having weak egos.

[mbirth@social.mbirth.uk]

@Bredroll @fj And small peepees

[craignicol@glasgow.social]

@fj they wouldn't fit.

On the roads, in the car parks, in the garages.

They're a monument to waste

[sir_osis_of_liver@beige.party]

@Quantensalat @fj

FWIW, the truck in the comparison with the Twingo is an F350.

[jguillaumes@mastodont.cat]

@fj @cstross and they should remain this way

[jguillaumes@mastodont.cat]

@reloadedhead @fj because they exist in a shared space.