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I guess 8 year olds shouldn't be playing in the street then. If you want your matchbox-sized car, more power to you, get yourself a Mini and call it a day. I w

I guess 8 year olds shouldn't be playing in the street then. If you want your matchbox-sized car, more power to you, get yourself a Mini and call it a day. I want and need something that I can drive out into the pasture, up the hill, to the row of oaks at the back of my property, whilst towing a log splitter, so I can saw down two oak trees and turn them into a cord of firewood that I can then load into the bed and drive back to my home to stack on the firewood rack. You worry about your life and let other people worry about theirs. If your hypothetical 8 year old's parents were worried about his or hers, it wouldn't be an issue to begin with.

thworp 3y ago
Wtf? I was not suggesting everyone buy "matchbox-size" cars. Neither was I suggesting that vehicles with a lot of mass and torque should be unavailable. I was just saying that the visibility in many modern pickups is atrocious and that they inflict disproportionate damage on other cars and especially pedestrians. There is no practical reason that pickups need to have flat grilles made of solid metal and very little practical reason to have the hood be so tall in the first place. You could have your 3000kg vehicles with a torque-heavy V8 without unnecessarily endangering others. ps: You might think differently after the 100th time you had to emergency brake and drive onto the grass because of a pickup that takes up 1.3 lanes going full speed around a blind corner.