Keep these monstrosities off our roads 🙅‍♂️

[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.

[rin3d@mastodon.social]

@fj Ok ik American trucks are massive, but could you atleast have used a graphic that actually compares trucks and not the smallest form factor style car against a vehicle that *has* to be large enough to haul stuff.

[rin3d@mastodon.social]

@killionaire @fj yep stupid government tied emissions requirements to foot print size and shits been getting bigger ever since.

[mbirth@social.mbirth.uk]

@reloadedhead @fj

[gsymon@mstdn.social]

@fj

The size is to do with certain Americans having weak egos.

[mbirth@social.mbirth.uk]

@Bredroll @fj And small peepees

[craignicol@glasgow.social]

@fj they wouldn't fit.

On the roads, in the car parks, in the garages.

They're a monument to waste

[sir_osis_of_liver@beige.party]

@Quantensalat @fj

FWIW, the truck in the comparison with the Twingo is an F350.

[jguillaumes@mastodont.cat]

@fj @cstross and they should remain this way

[jguillaumes@mastodont.cat]

@reloadedhead @fj because they exist in a shared space.

[coldclimate@hachyderm.io]

@fj why I have nearly been run off th road twice in the last year

[prophetscross@mastodon.social]

@fj We had an F150 beside us on a Dual Carriageway, somehow in the Blindspot but that was an F150 and I've no idea why anyone needs a vehicle that big

The bed capacity was lower than the Mercedes Sprinter my dad used to own and that thing was basically the same size as one of these, but that's a commercial vehicle.