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[-] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 146 points 1 year ago

Here is a Google image of Dodge ram 3500. EVEN IF YOU NEED A CAR, NO ONE NEEDS A VEHICLE THIS BIG.

[-] renlok@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago

But how else can you ensure a 100% fatality rate of everything you run over.

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And also make sure that you don't have to see the poor people as you run them over.

[-] M0oP0o@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

The issue is not so much size but height. These things are all over where I am as fleet vehicles and even the good ol' type will comment that they can not see anything in front. Just look at the door or normal car in the background of that picture and you get an idea. These hoods are no joke 1.7 meters high for no other reason then to look mean.

[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago
[-] Saneless@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

This is a lot of space to tell me what I already know, that driving my Abrams tank is very safe for me and pretty safe for others

[-] piecat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Got me thinking, why don't they put forward facing cameras? Like how we have backup cams.

[-] okamiueru@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I mean no offense by this. It's not that it is a bad idea, but an amusingly typical American ways of problem solving.

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[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

It's wild how there's this kind of evolutionary pressure to turn the grills into ever bigger and more menacing threat displays and it just keeps spiralling out of control because the cars in the rear view mirror only keep getting bigger and more intimidating and you constantly need to buy a new ego prosthetic in the form of a suburban tank like this to keep up with the other drivers that signal "I'M GONNA EAT YOU ALIVE" to you during every commute and grocery run. I'm sure manufacturers love that.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

I need a pickup truck for farm work, but I hate how big these things have gotten. I wouldn't buy anything made in the past 20 years. All this height for no practical benefit.

[-] CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Legit, like i understand having a use for that big open storage solution but seeing how they are now too tall to reach is odd as heck.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Old trucks are actual working trucks. The bed is low enough to easily lift heavy objects into. Modern trucks have no practical purpose in mind. They're purely aesthetic. Nearly any load you're lifting into that thing can also be hauled in almost any other vehicle easier. You'd need a forklift to load anything substantial, in which case an old truck or a van would be easier.

[-] Adeptfuckup@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

GMC named their bro-dozers AT-4. AT as in anti-tank. They're marketing to the suburban tacticool jackasses. Loud exhaust and parking in crowded bus shelters. Yeah fuck these guys.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago

But what if you want to run over all your children in one go?

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

We already have horses for that, and you don't even need to drive them yourself.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Self-driving horses are the future.

[-] Grass@geddit.social 13 points 1 year ago

A used ranger accommodated all of my hauling needs with room to spare when I needed it for work. I drove the company pickup which had the double rear tires once and it was awful and I couldn't recommend it even just for doing pickup truck things.

[-] Saneless@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Look, I'm terribly insecure and fragile. You expect me to drive something reasonable?

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

how else are they supposed to haul around their ego?

[-] Melonius@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

It's so fucking annoying when I'm trying to turn and check for oncoming traffic and one of these or its smaller cousins pulls up next to me so I can't see

[-] Redscare867@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

How else am I supposed to haul all of my groceries for a week? \s

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