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>Shockingly, most food delivery people don’t use cars… Depending on geographic location, no doubt. Can you imagine risking your life on a scooter weaving thro
by na85 4y ago
>Shockingly, most food delivery people don’t use cars…
Depending on geographic location, no doubt. Can you imagine risking your life on a scooter weaving through idiots in their lifted pickups in any American metro?
- spywaregorilla 4y agoPickups are more of a rural thing. They're hardly normative in urban areas.
- ziddoap 4y agoMaybe where your familiar with? Last I lived in Calgary, trucks were absolutely the norm. >That's especially true in Alberta, where 89 per cent of spending on new vehicles this year has gone to trucks, vans and SUVs. That compares to about 80 per cent, nationwide. >"We're basically a truck market," said Denis Ducharme, president of the Motor Dealers Association of Alberta.
- spywaregorilla 4y agoSUVs and vans are very different from trucks
- ziddoap 4y ago>"We're basically a truck market," said Denis Ducharme, And, I mean... I lived there. Saw many more trucks than anything else on the road.
- spywaregorilla 4y agohttps://www.calgary.ca/roads/conditions/traffic-cameras.html https://www.calgary.ca/roads/conditions/traffic-cameras.html Traffic camera feeds suggest this is not the case by a long shot? I don't have a particular stake in this race though.
- kube-system 4y agoIn the past 20 years or so we’ve seen the emergence of car-based SUVs and minivans, but large (and at one time, all) SUVs and vans are trucks with modified bodies.
- spywaregorilla 4y agoThey're a long shot from the big lifted pickups though
- kube-system 4y agoCar-based SUVs are not like trucks. All of the full size trucks sold in NA have SUV counterparts also on the road, and they are exactly like trucks. For example, the Wagoneer is the SUV version of the RAM. The Suburban and Tahoe are the SUV versions of GM trucks. The Land Cruiser, Sequoia, and Lexus LX are the same platform as the Tundra. Etc. Automakers don’t do one-off light trucks. They are all shared platforms.
- na85 4y agoNot when you're on a scooter, I would think. Having been to both (but not having driven a scooter in Atlanta) I'd suggest scooting around Paris is very different than scooting around Atlanta.
- jonas21 4y agoYou'd think, right? Because very few people in urban areas have a real need for a pickup. But I live in a large city in the US, and I'd estimate that 20-40% of the vehicles I see on the road are enormous pickups like this one [1]. And I think this is fairly typical in most US cities. [1] https://www.ramtrucks.com/ram-2500.html https://www.ramtrucks.com/ram-2500.html
- bitwize 4y agoIt depends on where you go. I tend to see more pickups in cities in the U.S. South (dualies on the freeway with no trailer? Really?). More people with something to prove down there I guess.
- butterfi 4y agoIstanbul has a thriving delivery ecosystem that appears to be mainly mopeds. I think what really makes it work for them is how densely populated it is so drivers really don't need to go far, there's plenty of orders coming in from nearby. And Istanbuls traffic is way crazier than any I've seen in the US.