the trend of 6-foot grilles that create massive blind spots and pull people under to be crushed when they are hit is 100 percent a marketing gimmickpic.twitter.com/CdMKuDsL3F
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sales of mega-pickups, which have basically been deliberately designed to intimidate and kill pedestrians, are boominghttps://www.wsj.com/articles/pickup-trucks-are-getting-huge-got-a-problem-with-that-11596254412 …
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hundreds of conservatives here doing their best to demonstrate that yes, huge trucks are about postmodern culture war signaling and unsubtle Freudian neurosis
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a light truck can be a useful tool, and I have owned one myself. making the grille 6 feet high so you can't see if you are running over your kid does not make it more useful. it does the opposite
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the men who drive these monster trucks are the most aggressive drivers on the road. absolute villains.
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I live in Texas but the jerks who drive big loud trucks like that are either students living in apartments or in the suburbs. People actually doing work are more likely driving grandpa's old truck.
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My six-year-old daughter is at the age where she wants to assert some independence; Walk or ride her bike around the neighborhood and it makes me so uncomfortable knowing how many of my neighbors drive these stupid death machines.
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I’d be more concerned about the 17 year old driving a used Honda Civic hitting my kid but to each their own.
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lol this is a wild fucking take.
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not entirely true: they're also designed to intimidate and kill drivers of normal-sized vehicles
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safety-conscious suburban moms are going to driving dragline excavators in about 10 years
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