Ryan's too apologetic for big trucks for my liking, but it's neat to see how this America-specific trend has produced America-specific results that can be quantified to the exact number of people who fall victim to it. Of course we would reduce traffic deaths a lot more with public transit and reducing car dependancy, but Fortnine isn't exactly an urbanism channel.
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My employer drives a 2023 GMC Denali HD. It is just like this.
Recently he had the windows tinted, and for some reason i got roped into picking it up and dropping it off at his house. Its so fucking big it has a camera mounted where the hood and grille meet and point down at like a 45 degree angle which is activated and shown on the infotainment screen for 10 seconds when you switch into Drive. You cannot see what is in front of it, out to about 36” otherwise.
Its absurd how big the truck is. It takes up 1.25 parking spaces side to side, and 1.5 spaces front to back. Even with good driving skills its impossible not to be obtrusive.
That is an obscene amount of truck.
Last time I had to travel for work, I specifically rented a "compact" car, only to be told that they had "upgraded" me for free to an F-150. I was miserable driving that giant piece of crap, I really don't understand at all what people get out of it. Small cars are just so much more fun! They're zippy, manueverable, you can see what's on all sides of you - the reason I got into motorcycles is because it takes all the fun of driving a Miata and supercharges it up to eleven. If I wanted to drive a big, lumbering boat I'd be a fisherman.
They're banning SUVs altogether in towns and cities across the EU.
EU has many faults but goddamn sometimes they pull out some good shit.
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