I live in BC’s interior so I’m unfortunately well aware of truck culture. It’s a hub for mining and other resource extraction activity so a lot of people and companies have valid reasons for driving large vehicles (i.e., hauling equipment), but that can still be done within reason. And we certainly don’t need said vehicles clogging up small roads and parking lots for people doing simple daily activities like shopping. Not sure what the solution is and there will always be pushback but it would be nice to see more serious regulation.
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I know dudes like this, and I honestly think they’ll just pay/do whatever they have to do to keep their trucks while whining about it. It’s the suburban Karen’s and their psycho small business owner husbands I’d be more worried about. They’re not going to give up their 8 passenger SUV’s without scheduling a second round of “tours” at the capitol
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Driving as a whole the last couple years has radicalized me against needing to drive to get around anywhere in America in a reasonably timely manner. It fucking sucks. Every time I have to deal with someone clearly looking down at their phone and then up at the road at 1 second intervals I get driven further towards abolishing all car transportation.
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You should see the country club mom’s in Dallas that play tennis, get shifaced on white wine/rose at lunch, then go pick up their kids from school.
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This is because russians die by falling out of buildings.
In all seriousness this doesn’t show what you think it shows because it doesn’t control for how much driving people are doing. If the avg american drives 10x as much as the avg russian, but the deaths per million people are similar it says per mile driven american roads are safer.
Need that crucial data point.
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And here it is. Americans drive a literal shitton more miles than russians. So russians having that many deaths per capita means their roads are WAY more dangerous
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My concern is the rise and not the comparison, guy
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Maybe you should have said that first instead of the russia thing if that was your real concern?
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I didn’t say anything about Russia. Maybe you should have asked a clarifying question instead of jumping to a conclusion with incomplete information?
Sir this is a Wendy’s Refuge. Much like Han, we shoot first and ask second.
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Right right riiiiight, you posted an image comparing russia and the usa in the title with a smarmy comment after but its just a dumb assumption to assume you were commenting on the image with a title attached.
I’m gonna try this strategy during my next presentation. “Oh you thought the title implied something? You shoulda asked!”
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Glad to see we agree!
Haha… you post something with a very clear title that is very misleading and you want US to ask questions to clarify? Sir, this is not Facebook where you get away with this BS
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I’ve said it elsewhere on here, I really want one of these for around my town, they’re so cool.
Having said that, there is no way I’m driving that thing on an American highway. Between the full size trucks/SUVs and all 2.5+ ton electric cars, zero chance I’m coming out okay in an accident. These have almost zero modern crash safety.
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I saw this on Twitter earlier and have spent the last hour trying to comprehend how his brain even works:
https://x.com/fasc1nate/status/1775455708156219887?s=20
Wild.
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I imagine this is the sort of analysis that Tosti (see SGS thread) put into the reasoning behind buying 3 cars and parking them across the US rather than using rental cars the week of Korn Ferry Tour events.
This thread: driving in the US of A has become increasingly dangerous. Just look at how some here wish death on cyclists!
Me: posts graph showing deaths per million of American drivers has been increasing and surpassing the rest of the developed world and asks sarcastically if increasing American deaths per million people on highways is good.
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I have a couple friends who imported a pair of them into Seattle, and drove them back to Michigan and said it was one of the least enjoyable things they’ve done. No cruise controls, very very loud inside, not the most comfortable place to be for 8+ hours of driving, and the fact that they couldn’t quite get to our speed limits (if memory serves). And that’s all before all the terrifying safety stuff you mention, which is scary as shit too.
I’m 1000% with you though. I want one real bad but only for in town stuff
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That’s an awesome story.
If they had recorded it and posted that on YouTube, I’d absolutely have watched it, this is the type of stuff that makes up my YouTube feed.