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Found this and thought it's neat to see the dimensions of cars properly. Mostly because there's a larger influx of American pickups in my town and I'm not enjoy

Found this and thought it's neat to see the dimensions of cars properly. Mostly because there's a larger influx of American pickups in my town and I'm not enjoying it one bit.

CalRobert 4y ago
Was weird to see so many Dodge Rams in the Netherlands.
- Doxin 4y ago
  Where do all these people even park those behemoths? Do they just double park all of the time?
  - Laarlf 4y ago
    I would assume that if you go out of your way to have a company and buy a massive pickup that is more expensive than a Van and less usable you probably do not give a shit. The fact that they can basically ignore BPM on company cars is absolutely stupid.
    - michpoch 4y ago
      Yeah but you buy a pickup for a work that you could not do with a van. Pickups are for farmers, how do you carry pigs or a pile of dirt in a van?
      - dsfyu404ed 4y ago
        >how do you carry pigs or a pile of dirt in a van? With less convenience and more difficulty. I've done that kind of stuff, not great but it works. I can definitely see why people who don't very, very, very frequently need the enclosed cargo space prefer the pickups over vans.
      - Gordonjcp 4y ago
        You don't, you carry them in a trailer. How do you carry them in pickup?
  - davedx 4y ago
    Yup! Even when they could have fit it into a single slot, often they'll take two
  - yourusername 4y ago
    Presumably the same place they would park the Mercedes Sprinter that they would have otherwise that is about the same size. The people driving American pickups in the Netherlands are almost all contractors and they're a bit shorter and a bit wider than a Mercedes Sprinter.
    - krisoft 4y ago
      > The people driving American pickups in the Netherlands are almost all contractors and they're a bit shorter and a bit wider than a Mercedes Sprinter. I imagined all these people who are only a bit shorter but a bit wider than a van. :)
  - jameshart 4y ago
    Small nit: ‘double parking’ does not mean ‘parking in two parking spaces’. It generally means parallel parking next to a car that is already parallel parked - ie, parking roadside in a second row alongside a first row of parked cars. More generally it refers to doubling up two cars in a parking space in such a way that one car blocks the other in (eg parking two cars nose to tail in a long parking bay)
    - InitialLastName 4y ago
      At least in my region, the phrase is used about evenly to refer to both: - Parking in the roadway next to the row of parallel parked cars/in other ways such that parked cars are blocked in and - Parking a single car such that two parking spots are obstructed (unjustifiably so, e.g. nobody would likely talk that way about an RV taking two parallel parking spots). The difference in usage seems to depend on whether you (and your local cohort) spend more of your time parking in parking lots or on the street.
      - jameshart 4y ago
        Double parking is a legal term for a specific traffic violation. People who use it to refer to parking across two bays in a parking lot are using it wrong. It’s like saying ‘well people in my region use the word “speeding” both to refer to going over the speed limit, and for going through a red light’. People in your region have heard a term and misunderstood it. Laws commonly include exceptions like; > Vehicles used ordinarily for transportation of merchandise may double park for the purpose of, but only while engaged in, the expeditious loading or unloading - that doesn’t mean delivery vehicles can park across two bays in a parking lot.
        InitialLastName 4y ago
        > People in your region have heard a term and misunderstood it. Language is how people use it. That sounds like a perfectly valid route to adding a colloquial meaning to a word.

Found this and thought it's neat to see the dimensions of cars properly. Mostly because there's a larger influx of American pickups in my town and I'm not enjoying it one bit.

CalRobert 4y ago

Was weird to see so many Dodge Rams in the Netherlands.

Doxin 4y ago
Where do all these people even park those behemoths? Do they just double park all of the time?
- Laarlf 4y ago
  I would assume that if you go out of your way to have a company and buy a massive pickup that is more expensive than a Van and less usable you probably do not give a shit. The fact that they can basically ignore BPM on company cars is absolutely stupid.
  - michpoch 4y ago
    Yeah but you buy a pickup for a work that you could not do with a van. Pickups are for farmers, how do you carry pigs or a pile of dirt in a van?
    - dsfyu404ed 4y ago
      >how do you carry pigs or a pile of dirt in a van? With less convenience and more difficulty. I've done that kind of stuff, not great but it works. I can definitely see why people who don't very, very, very frequently need the enclosed cargo space prefer the pickups over vans.
    - Gordonjcp 4y ago
      You don't, you carry them in a trailer. How do you carry them in pickup?
- davedx 4y ago
  Yup! Even when they could have fit it into a single slot, often they'll take two
- yourusername 4y ago
  Presumably the same place they would park the Mercedes Sprinter that they would have otherwise that is about the same size. The people driving American pickups in the Netherlands are almost all contractors and they're a bit shorter and a bit wider than a Mercedes Sprinter.
  - krisoft 4y ago
    > The people driving American pickups in the Netherlands are almost all contractors and they're a bit shorter and a bit wider than a Mercedes Sprinter. I imagined all these people who are only a bit shorter but a bit wider than a van. :)
- jameshart 4y ago
  Small nit: ‘double parking’ does not mean ‘parking in two parking spaces’. It generally means parallel parking next to a car that is already parallel parked - ie, parking roadside in a second row alongside a first row of parked cars. More generally it refers to doubling up two cars in a parking space in such a way that one car blocks the other in (eg parking two cars nose to tail in a long parking bay)
  - InitialLastName 4y ago
    At least in my region, the phrase is used about evenly to refer to both: - Parking in the roadway next to the row of parallel parked cars/in other ways such that parked cars are blocked in and - Parking a single car such that two parking spots are obstructed (unjustifiably so, e.g. nobody would likely talk that way about an RV taking two parallel parking spots). The difference in usage seems to depend on whether you (and your local cohort) spend more of your time parking in parking lots or on the street.
    - jameshart 4y ago
      Double parking is a legal term for a specific traffic violation. People who use it to refer to parking across two bays in a parking lot are using it wrong. It’s like saying ‘well people in my region use the word “speeding” both to refer to going over the speed limit, and for going through a red light’. People in your region have heard a term and misunderstood it. Laws commonly include exceptions like; > Vehicles used ordinarily for transportation of merchandise may double park for the purpose of, but only while engaged in, the expeditious loading or unloading - that doesn’t mean delivery vehicles can park across two bays in a parking lot.
      - InitialLastName 4y ago
        > People in your region have heard a term and misunderstood it. Language is how people use it. That sounds like a perfectly valid route to adding a colloquial meaning to a word.