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Too little. I don’t want it to be more survivable when someone is hit by a 6 foot tall hood 7500 pound truck someone is using to go grocery shopping. I don’t

by MBCook 2y ago

Too little. I don’t want it to be more survivable when someone is hit by a 6 foot tall hood 7500 pound truck someone is using to go grocery shopping. I don’t want 6’ tall hoods. I’m 6’ tall and sitting in my small SUV the hoods of new trucks are over my eyeline. That’s insane. Put limits on hood height. Put limits on weight. Or at least huge taxes. You want to pay an extra $149,000 in fees for your monstrosity? Go ahead. Either you’re ultra-rich or you’re really using it and it’s not a suburban vanity truck. Limit length. Limit footprint. Limit weight. Repeal the chicken tax. Things are crazy out there. GMC added cameras to the front of some of their trucks to be able to see pedestrians at crosswalks. How is that sane?

OJFord 2y ago
Kind of unfair if you are actually using it then though? I'm not in the US and don't have an SUV, but I sort of sympathise with that. You could have it not apply/be tax deductible for applicable businesses or something though, that would go some way. Or maybe better to charge a big daily tariff for driving it in metro areas? So if it's only being 'actually used' it will never hit the tariff, whoever you are, business or not, and however rich. But if you take it between school, Wholefoods, and the soccer field, bam. (I don't know if the infrastructure to do that is common in the US though, I'm imagining like London's U/LEZ & congestion charge.)
- hnav 2y ago
  Yeah, because the country is so heterogeneous, this push has to come from major metros charging people for doing truck things. What makes sense in a dense city doesn't really apply in bumfuck nowhere which is 99% of the country. You can see in San Francisco when a new wave of migration occurs because suddenly the streets are littered with Lariats and Raptors.
- MBCook 2y ago
  Why should driving a sedan only be safe in a city? Trucks worked fine 40 years ago. I don’t see why they need to be the insane size they are today. I’m not saying they all have to be the size of a Miata or something. The industry taught people to want giant monstrosities because it saved them money. I don’t think they’re inherently superior and trying to control the size is de facto making them worse. Where lines are drawn is for lawmakers. I can see business needing big trucks. Maybe put them behind a tougher license. I don’t know. The status who is insane. I moved up from an Accord because SUVs had hoods above my roofline. My little SUV isn’t much better. It’s an arms race and we need to do something.

by MBCook 2y ago

OJFord 2y ago

Kind of unfair if you are actually using it then though? I'm not in the US and don't have an SUV, but I sort of sympathise with that. You could have it not apply/be tax deductible for applicable businesses or something though, that would go some way. Or maybe better to charge a big daily tariff for driving it in metro areas? So if it's only being 'actually used' it will never hit the tariff, whoever you are, business or not, and however rich. But if you take it between school, Wholefoods, and the soccer field, bam. (I don't know if the infrastructure to do that is common in the US though, I'm imagining like London's U/LEZ & congestion charge.)

hnav 2y ago
Yeah, because the country is so heterogeneous, this push has to come from major metros charging people for doing truck things. What makes sense in a dense city doesn't really apply in bumfuck nowhere which is 99% of the country. You can see in San Francisco when a new wave of migration occurs because suddenly the streets are littered with Lariats and Raptors.
MBCook 2y ago
Why should driving a sedan only be safe in a city? Trucks worked fine 40 years ago. I don’t see why they need to be the insane size they are today. I’m not saying they all have to be the size of a Miata or something. The industry taught people to want giant monstrosities because it saved them money. I don’t think they’re inherently superior and trying to control the size is de facto making them worse. Where lines are drawn is for lawmakers. I can see business needing big trucks. Maybe put them behind a tougher license. I don’t know. The status who is insane. I moved up from an Accord because SUVs had hoods above my roofline. My little SUV isn’t much better. It’s an arms race and we need to do something.