Keep these monstrosities off our roads 🙅‍♂️

[wronglang@bayes.club]

@fj incredible cultural insensitivity from Brussels, don't they know that the F150 is Ford's *smallest* truck in that line?

Edit: for context the f-350 is 6.8 m long and 2.4 m wide, it's a common vanity truck in the US, I often see them without a scratch and with no dirt as though they'd never left the pavement (ah, the link is for the f-350 so ok)

[capnthommo@c.im]

@fj good for you EU. Well done.

[s1m0n4@ohai.social]

@fj our roads aren't big enough for those monsters on wheels

[nkrook94@pixelfed.social]

Wonderful EU!

[reloadedhead@mastodon.social]

@fj why not let people decide if they want such a large vehicle or not?

[fletcherthemoose@mastodon.social]

@fj Someone who made a song and video like this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPeheoBa2_Y">Army Of Me</a> then maybe. Anybody else nah.

[teknomagic@todon.eu]

@fj I don't think those things would fit our roads

[teknomagic@todon.eu]

@fj (also that's what, three parking spaces?)

[backfromthedud@mas.to]

@fj the F150 isn't even a big truck by US standards. We don't need anything that large as a car!!

[illuminatus@mstdn.social]

@fj At least we can quantify the masculinity deficit of some people.

[richlv@mastodon.social]

@reloadedhead @fj Because they endanger others, use way more space and it also encourages driving like pricks.
Or is it just making pricks more visible?

[gadgetboy@gadgetboy.social]

@fj I moved to Austin, Texas 10 years ago from the NYC metro area. Seeing these trucks on the road is *still* a sight to behold. Just ridiculous.

[cm@chaos.social]

@fj Pet peeve: when you make sharepics for a good cause, don't compare apples to oranges. Point in case: I don't know about US cars, but I am sure the small Renault Twingo in that size ended production in 2007, the current model is somewhat wider and longer.

[sanzky@masto.es]

@fj I sometimes see the Ford Ranger, which is a "small" pickup per US standards and it's already ridiculously large. I hope we never see those monstrosities here.

But UVDL will UVDL and she might cave to them

[cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com]

@Bredroll @fj and small appendages

[sanzky@masto.es]

@cm @fj even "large" european SUVs are smaller than the monsters the US has

(peugeot 5008 vs cadillac escalade)

[residuum@digitalcourage.social]

@fj
One of those times, where the Simpsons predicted the present.

https://youtu.be/PI_Jl5WFQkA

[menos@todon.eu]

@reloadedhead If you absolutely want to be an asshole, you can *have* such a vehicle alright. Drive it on your own lot, no problem. Public space is public, so the public makes the rules. We don't let people decide whether they want to take a dump in front of your doorstep or not either.
@fj

[oneiros@ruhr.social]

@fj
Just regulate it as a truck.

[alisonw@hachyderm.io]

@fj
The term BCSD applies.