Reason #39476 that the Toyota Hilux will never make it onto 'Murican shores.
Wasn’t this the main selling point of the cybertruck, almost verbatim?
Yeah, that shit was so disgusting. Your car will just drive over the other car in case of an apocalypse. In an accident, it will just be the other guys problem
That’s why i don’t feel bad for the idiots who bought the Reichs mobile
Maybe. But in reality people in Cybertruck are more prone to die from the collision than anyone in a similar sized car.
Because…the exoskelton design does not disperse energy in a collision, so that energy is transfered to the Nazis in the cabin.
While Musk sold the idea of bulletproof windows, those would be illegal because EMTs could not use then in an emergency. Side windows are supposed to break. His syncophants at Tesla were too scared to tell him his idea was stupid, so he threw a bearing through the window live.
Sure, but it’s the “thought” that counts.
I remember decades ago, even before the SUV mania, a colleague of mine who was this little woman and drove a large all terrain car (in the city) because “it made her feel safe”.
As it turns those vehicles had a higher likelihood for the driver to lose control and roll-over than normal cars.
It’s a mix of stupid and selfishness to the point of Evil.
I thought of you all the other day when somebody in a newer pickup truck got behind me driving my Mazda 3. I didn’t take a photo in my rear view mirror because safe driving and all that, but I felt like I was living in some kind of AI generated c/fuckcars meme.
In my mirror the front of the truck looked like a WALL the height of a grown adult with a little thin stripe of windshield above it. AND there was a big hood scoop on top of that. The little stripe of windshield was like 10’/3m behind the wall at the front of the truck too, just to make the visibility as dangerous as possible.
Mazda 3
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I have literally heard a Jeep owner express such an attitude. Not specifically that the other family would die and theirs would not, but that theirs would be minimally damaged and the other would be crushed.
This was on a date. I obviously did not go on a second date with her. This was a big ass red flag.
Which is wild because it’s a Jeep.
How is it going to make it all the way to the scene of the accident?
I’ve never seen a more unreliable POS in my life.
It’s a surprise to hear how many truck/SUV owners are women. The theory delivered has been that women generally feel unsafe in the open due to misogynistic behavior as well as rare cases of road rage, and so a big tough car acts as a “safety blanket” - so even in traffic when surrounded, they can feel control and ownership of their space.
That’s a stretched theory but it could make sense.
People are sold on the idea that bigger vehicles are safer. Complete lie:
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They take longer distances to stop
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They do not have to meet safety standards of cars due to a regualtory loophole.
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They flip much easier because of the high centre of mass, and this is worse with stuff in the truck. It gets much worse with the lifting trend. So lifters then space out the wheels, which is not what the suspension was designed for and suspension arms and hubs crack.
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Some have 16 ft front blind spots, people are running over their own children in driveways.
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They are worse in snow and ice, because chunky man tires are not winter rated and heavier vehicles slide off roads easier.
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A colleague of mine who was a little woman, decades ago and even before the SUV craze, drove a car like that (which was stupidly large for her size) because it made her feel safe.
Years later I found out such cars were more likely to roll-over than other cars.
This honestly sounds likely. My step-mother, in the 80s, said something like this when she got an SUV (before the term had even kicked in). She felt safer and more confident being higher than the rest of the traffic. I “get it”, but it’s a race to the bottom (or top?). Maybe if they get tall enough, some of us can get ultra efficient and low profile wedge shaped cars and just dodge underneath these gigantic abominations.
We need to see more cars with a wedge shape, extremely tough body, and explosive flipping mechanism.
Taller vehicles, driven standing up like a speedboat. Hurrr
I don’t think it’s a gender thing at all, people just like the higher seating position and the upper hand in the case of a collision. I’m personally a small hatch guy, but every time I’ve asked somebody why they want a bigger car despite not carrying anything those are the two reasons I got back, gender regardless.
I also stopped dating someone immediately after their attitude on SUVs came out. Dealbreaker
What is the perfect bumper height to make sure I decapitate a ten year old?
you can add cool wheels to grind that child first. Completely legal.
Dodge ram and up.
I mean that’s really what you want to do.
You wouldn’t want her to live life as a cripple so better to just bump it up a little bit and ensure a clean death.
Around here, the bigger the cars gets, the lower the speed limit. In the end, the harm to a pedestrian equals car mass multiplied with car speed. One goes up so the other one goes down to compensate. Have fun driving that tank like a snail.
Where is “here” for you? I’ve never heard of a place with variable speed limits.
Here is Western Europe. It’s not variable. It’s the new limit for everyone. 30 kph popping up everywhere now.
I’m confused, you said the bigger the vehicle then the lower the speed limit in your original comment.
it says “the cars” as in the average car on the road.
“Around here the bigger the average car on the road, the lower the speed limit.”
The question still stands. He said the bigger the car the lower the speed limit.
Ah got you. I interpreted it as that larger vehicles are subject to slower speed limits.
They should be. We should limit by kinetic energy, not speed.
Ah yes, your average cybertruck owner.
Works better for pick-up trucks in general, a cybertruck will probably kill you along with the people in the other car.
… And with this in mind, do you discourage people with this attitude from buying the cybertrack, or rather encourage?..
Dilemma, I guess. Most of us want neither the dumm looking trucks nor the attitude.
Weirdly enough the cyber trucks sloped don’t probably gives it better visibility than most other pick ups…
Personally I just look for a vehicle with the brightest headlights. /s
Catbox.moe is blocked for many people. Please consider using another image host, like https://imgbb.com/
While I do sometimes have that problem, they also could have just linked the Onion Article instead of screenshotting it
What? Why is it blocked and for whom? I’ve had far fewer issues with it than I’ve had with the often slow-loading imgbb and the short time when imgbb went all-in on full-paid access before they changed their mind and went back to allowing a free tier.
Check out their faq, the last section
Example blurb
Verizon Why? - Unknown. This is a DNS based block, which means Verizon’s DNS servers are returning no result for catbox.moe.
I can’t even open links to that site through Tor, and not because the site answers with 403, but because it never connects at all.
for whom?
Me, and many others
Why is it blocked
You’ll have to ask them. They insist they aren’t, but I promise you I am not blocking them either, so it’s them.
e: This was not a tech support request. I promise you all that I know what I am doing and it is not on my side and I’m not the only person with this exact problem.
It sounds like your ISP is blocking access. Have you tried using a different DNS server? My ISP blocks thepiratebay and I easily get around it using the Cloudflare DNS server.
You’ll have to ask them. They insist they aren’t, but I promise you I am not blocking them either, so it’s them.
Could it be someone between you and them? Is there a bug report or discussion tracking this problem which people could try to help solve?
Is it blocked on a VPN?
Funny thing is, this is posted on lemmy.world by a user registered on lemmy.world, and that instance includes its own image-hosting functionality. Just need to choose the option to upload the image when making the post. I’m guessing some apps might not be aware of it, and perhaps integrate with Catbox instead.
This is in fact the same consideration that easily resolves some philosophical questions about self-driving cars. “If the car has to choose between mowing over a pedestrian and swerving but potentially killing the driver, what will it choose?” Yeah this one is simple: if you make a car that might kill its driver, good luck trying to sell it.
