@notjustbikes about SUVs that are too dangerous.

[rasmus91@fosstodon.org]

@jackwilliambell @rrustema020 @notjustbikes this just made me look up the roof on the insurances here. They are set by law, fortunately, so it's not something the companies can fudge

[znexhf_svax@social.cologne]

@rrustema020 @notjustbikes I love it. I love all of it.

[gergovie@piaille.fr]

@rrustema020 @notjustbikes

[eriksandblom@mastodon.green]

@rrustema020 @notjustbikes in case anyone needs an explanatory graphic for sharing:

[micha@23.social]

@rrustema020
I'm grown up in the 80's. Back then we'd call those monster trucks.

It's just that they now not only drive in those arenas anymore.
@notjustbikes

[kursis@toot.lv]

@rrustema020 Cars used to be design in a way that would throw the object of collision upwards, on the hood, to minimise damage. Looks like the new car designs have done a full circle and we are back to deflecting, just in opposite direction @notjustbikes

[pierrick_taluy@mastodon.top]

@rrustema020 @notjustbikes Fortunately, only a car, not a kid or a pedestrian...

[jacobwittrock@techhub.social]

@rrustema020 @notjustbikes Insane

[hazel@shrimp.starlightnet.work]

@rrustema020 @notjustbikes aaaand in other social circles the reaction has got to be like "shouldnt leave a woman drive your truck!!!1!11"

[ravenpunk@mastodon.social]

@rrustema020 @notjustbikes oh man, in the time I was in america, I was seeying these cars everywhere in florida. I was shocked.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@rrustema020 @notjustbikes

This is so rich I saw this posted the other day.

What was that again about visibility out of these things?

[bhasic@mastodon.social]

@eriksandblom @rrustema020 @notjustbikes In Finland, a CEO ran over a 3-year-old child with a Mercedes SUV. The man denied committing any crimes. He claimed that visibility from the car downward was extremely poor due to factors such as the window frames, the car’s height, and the shape of the front end.

https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000009607641.html

[pvdrijst@mastodon.social]

@rrustema020 @notjustbikes Not even a selfdriving SUV but with a person at the wheel? It's not cars but people in cars you should be afraid of.

[albertojavier@universeodon.com]

@rrustema020 @notjustbikes a pick up truck is in fact a work vehicle designed to be used to carry stuff in the missing rear half. Sadly, a large number of idiots in the us, Canada, and Mexico for the most part, somehow cannot realize this fact. They instead think it's cool to lift these vehicles to unsafe geometries and drive them like sport cars. I see this every f#cking day! An increase in the amount and manner of these vehicles should directly correlate to the dramatic increase in the level of stupidity in the general population..

[shadedlady@mstdn.social]

@rrustema020 @notjustbikes "even Apeldoorn bellen" (Dutch commercial about insurance)

[stagerabbit@famichiki.jp]

@rrustema020 @notjustbikes The SUV driver was 100% in the wrong and that is a stupid design for a truck, but it's hard for me to muster up sympathy for someone driving a lambo.

"Stephen Miller arrested for accidentally discharging AR-15 into Pete Hegseth's Nazi tattoo." <- comparable hypothetical incident.

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@hanghuhn @rrustema020 @notjustbikes It's because they are "non-passenger automobiles". In any sane environment, that should automatically require the driver to have a special professional driver's licence, but they are instead exempt from lots of rules.

[flowerpot@mas.to]

@rrustema020 @notjustbikes OMG, the driver was INSIDE the Lamborghini!
He was lucky he didn't get hurt.

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@albertojavier @rrustema020 Not that it would have helped directly in this case, but work vehicles should have a low speed cutoff. It would have helped indirectly, though, because people wouldn't get them for driving around in.

It should also be mandatory to have a special professional driver's licence to drive any work vehicle, with regular medical checkups.

[albertojavier@universeodon.com]

@ahltorp @rrustema020 yeah, maybe categorize them as heavy equipment with the required permits and limitations