- cross-posted to:
- fuckcars@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- fuckcars@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29512454
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Why the fuck do cars here have to be so comically big? And why do the people driving them have to be such utter assholes. I was trying to cross the street to get back to my dorm room yesterday and 2 cars at the same crosswalk almost hit me. Like the fuck, the first had all the time in the world to slow down but only did so seconds before hitting me. The second was a person who sped up to go around the first car that wasn’t paying attention and almost hit me again. Maybe if you don’t want to have to stop for pedestrians maybe don’t drive through a college campus?!! I know what a wild concept
They are psychopaths.
Oh most definitely, under the local laws here drivers are required to yield to a pedestrian if they can reasonably do so. If they hit me they would always be liable since it doesn’t matter if I had been in a marked crosswalk (like I was) or not since they have the responsibility to stop.
Sad thing is this isn’t even a rare occurrence, it happens almost every single day and nothing is done about it
@oxysis @FenrirIII If the “here” refers to the United States, the reason is that lawmakers there have made it so that building bigger cars is more beneficial economically for car manufacturers (even though it’s literally deadly for everyone else): https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution
Conspicuous consumption
I live in northern Ontario and I have an older 2010 F150 that I service myself and keep running. I got it used for $5,000 four years ago. It’s a great truck and I use it for all my work hauling and moving stuff and going on gravel roads, sand and dirt. Since I take care of it, it’s going to last a long time.
I have neighbors and friends near me who also enjoy having trucks … but there’s are brand new monster trucks with lift kits and tons of extras … and they never want to dirty them … no garbage runs, no hauling lumber, no dirt roads, no bush roads (god forbid that bushes could scratch the paint) … if they ever haul anything it has to be a brand appliance in a cardboard box from the store. The best part is, they are pieces of junk with metal that rusts prematurely and engines and transmissions that are almost programmed to fail. I had one friend who bought a brand new 2018 GM truck and in the second year, his transmission blew up … a big beautiful truck with brand new parts and the transmission blew up!
Those big trucks are show pieces to flaunt wealth or show the appearance of wealth because for every rich guy that can afford one outright, there are ten guys in debt to pay them for the next 20 years.
People of normal height wherever they live that don’t have some sort of disability that need some sort of step or ladder to climb into their vehicle are nothing more than little kids pretending to be adults.
They forgot the Carolina squat.
I’m scared of driving this long car now imagine how scared I’m to drive those mini trucks.
