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EU: Your truck is unsafe because it is unusually large and has razor sharp edges at head height.
US: Your truck is unsafe because it is too small to withstand a direct hit from one of our super safe giant axe head shaped cars.
No pre installed firearms... Very unsafe...
the good, the bad, and the dodge ram.
Yeah, I swapped the third cupholders for the pistol holster on my dodge.
I'm thinking of buying a ford F1-9001 for my next truck. They have quick-access assault rifle holsters.
Get the Ferd F-teen Thousand
Reminds me of an old NES game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoadBlasters
Yessss, what a blast from the past!
"The only way to protect yourself from a giant truck is to have your own giant truck"
Now where have I heard of this logic before? 🤔
With nuclear weapons.
Mutually Assured Destruction.
Well the larger trucks are exempt from the safety regulations is the reason it plays out that way. The spirit of the law I think is that they have a special use case and aren't supposed to be the default vehicle someone would be driving. But it's a loophole probably written in by the manufacturers themselves and that's just how it was billed to whatever legislator that signed it.