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> It's not like they're obligated to buy a car that's so tall you can run over a child without noticing. We're stuck in a race to the top. Intuitively, a larg

> It's not like they're obligated to buy a car that's so tall you can run over a child without noticing. We're stuck in a race to the top. Intuitively, a larger car is safer: if two differently-sized cars are in a crash, the big one will win while the small one suffers greater damage. In the modern age of safetyism, that means that if I'm on a road surrounded by larger cars, I also must by a large car in self defense. Thus, everybody keeps upping the ante, buying larger cars. (FWIW, I don't subscribe to that approach. I favor a nimble and agile car to allow me to avoid a collision in the first place.)

hoppla 3y ago
Is it not a truck license required to drive a truck in the US? It seems unsafe that inexperienced drivers can drive around with «trucks» at park lots
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- zdragnar 3y ago
  Nope. I own a truck (mostly because I do some light forestry work a few times a year that a smaller utility vehicle can't handle) and they're generally perfectly fine for driving. American parking lots are a good deal larger than what you'll find in a dense urban European city. Additionally, the newest models have had 360 degree cameras for a few years now since they're cheap to add and mark up the price by a bit. An inexperienced driver will have an easier time parking one of those than a standard sedan without. It is profoundly stupid to own a pickup truck if you don't plow snow, need to haul things off road, or regularly tow recreational vehicles. With that said, the higher trim models are easily the most comfortable vehicles to ride in that you'll find. I'm 6'4", and I can sit in the back seat of a modern crew cab truck without slouching and leg room to spare. Most smaller cars I can't even do that in the driver's seat.
- jabroni_salad 3y ago
  You only need that if driving commercially, but the real barrier to entry is a training program before any carriers will take you seriously as a professional driver. For reference you can drive 60ft of recreational nonsense in most states with a basic license.
metiscus 3y ago
The old struggle between the Dreadnought and the Battlecruiser rears its ugly head again. It's amazing how such different things can run into the same human idioms.

hoppla 3y ago

Is it not a truck license required to drive a truck in the US? It seems unsafe that inexperienced drivers can drive around with «trucks» at park lots

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zdragnar 3y ago
Nope. I own a truck (mostly because I do some light forestry work a few times a year that a smaller utility vehicle can't handle) and they're generally perfectly fine for driving. American parking lots are a good deal larger than what you'll find in a dense urban European city. Additionally, the newest models have had 360 degree cameras for a few years now since they're cheap to add and mark up the price by a bit. An inexperienced driver will have an easier time parking one of those than a standard sedan without. It is profoundly stupid to own a pickup truck if you don't plow snow, need to haul things off road, or regularly tow recreational vehicles. With that said, the higher trim models are easily the most comfortable vehicles to ride in that you'll find. I'm 6'4", and I can sit in the back seat of a modern crew cab truck without slouching and leg room to spare. Most smaller cars I can't even do that in the driver's seat.
jabroni_salad 3y ago
You only need that if driving commercially, but the real barrier to entry is a training program before any carriers will take you seriously as a professional driver. For reference you can drive 60ft of recreational nonsense in most states with a basic license.

metiscus 3y ago

The old struggle between the Dreadnought and the Battlecruiser rears its ugly head again. It's amazing how such different things can run into the same human idioms.