Keep these monstrosities off our roads 🙅‍♂️

[traecer@techhub.social]

@fj oh, I've traveled in extensively in Europe, and can confirm: full size US pickups have no business on the roads of Europe. It's not Europe's fault US manufacturers have enlarged their pickups so much they literally don't fit on European roads anymore. (In truth, they *barely* fit on US roads either.)

[cyberwitch@goingdark.social]

@fj AND ALSO they don't really have more power or torque, at least not the amount that people need for legally sized and weighted trailers. They're glorified minivans cosplaying as giant penises

[jurjen_heeck@mastodon.nl]

@mikaeleiman 6,35? That's just one cm shorter than my complete Fiat Ducato based campervan @fj

(Non paywalled ft article available at: https://archive.vn/rjBNl )

[alipercapita@linke.social]

@fj Hier noch ohne Paywall: https://archive.is/rjBNl

[devnull@mamot.fr]

@fj Fuck US carmakers… No actually #fuckCars and the annoyance, pollution and danger they cause…

Cities should be built for people, not for cars…

[obot50549535@left-bank.net]

@fj They call the F-150 one of the biggest pickup trucks?! Guess they haven't seen the F-650.

[uint8_t@chaos.social]

@ghard @simon_brooke @CelloMomOnCars @fj EVs are somewhat heavier but not by much. our car has 78 kWh (nominal) NMC battery capacity and that’s like 360 kg. The electric drivetrain is lighter weight than an ICE would be with gearbox and clutch and cooling and all the other stuff. Tank and fuel also weighs some, so I’d expect a 100-200 kg mass penalty for being BEV instead of petrol (can’t compare this model directly, no ICE option)

[openrisk@mastodon.social]

@reloadedhead yes, its not about trust or any sort of agreement but basic civility (that we normally grant each other in real life). Verbally attacking complete strangers is not something we should normalize.

In adtech media people blame the platforms for profiting from polarization etc. but clearly there is more than that at play. Mastodon is supposed to do better, because open and non-profit etc. but it isn't. Everyday I witness such episodes around here... Does not bode well.

[artharg@mastodon.nl]

@fj That second image would be a lot more illustrative if they had aligned the top rear corner of the cabins.

[dee@social.treehouse.systems]

@fj go further, add regulations to give tax advantage and free parking to cars of smaller dimensions and lower fuel use.

basically introduce a European "city car" equivalent to the Japanese kei car.

[catdad@ohai.social]

@fj Don't need them.

[mraptronym@mastodon.social]

@fj I am jealous. I live in a US city and work in an office and I swear one in eight of the bankers/office workers in my building drive one of these. The parking is a nightmare. We have a ton of compact spots and these people will just take two. I doubt any of them actually NEED the capabilities of these things either.

[nuwagaba2@mastodon.social]

@Kensan
Isn't their cost so high?

[niavy@masto.bike]

@fj So, you can line up a Twingo and an Aygo behind a Ford pick-up and not being able to see any of those two EU cars

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@fj Just one simple European answer to US carmakers:

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@jawarajabbi @fj
Sadly enough idiots would buy them and then deaths.

Ban touch screen controls for the driver and retractable door handles.

[andii@mas.to]

@fj
it's simply a case of they won't fit.
In our urban area, we already have problems accommodating the oversized cars on streets built for smaller vehicles. The issues are caused by both parking on kerbsides and trying to drive between vehicles parked both sides.
I honestly don't know why thedrivers put themselves through the hassle of the silent negotiating to get down a street with a vehicle coming the other way -which happens quite often by my observation.
The cost of 'upgrading' ...

[pizzademon@mastodon.online]

@fj https://youtu.be/iWR4AMqfTNA?t=2750

[mim54@mstdn.social]

@fj long may that ban continue

[rich@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@fj wonder why they chose to shrink the car even further than the specified width and height? the point can be made just as (if not more) forcefully if they didn't resort to distorting the relative sizes