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Europe's safety is optimized for its environment: mostly narrow, crooked, and crowded streets with a lot of pedestrians. Most use cases for a pickup truck that'
by scottyah 2y ago
Europe's safety is optimized for its environment: mostly narrow, crooked, and crowded streets with a lot of pedestrians. Most use cases for a pickup truck that's only sold in North America are in the part of America where you're much more likely to crash into a tree, deer, fence post, etc than you are a person.
- brendoelfrendo 2y agoReally? Someone should tell all of the suburban and city-dwelling truck owners that.
- woodruffw 2y agoI see lots of SUVs in Europe, which are light-truck sized (and are more often than not built on top of light truck chassis). That plus the preponderance of trucks in US cities suggests to me that it's mostly a cultural and regulatory issue, not a matter of driving environment.
- jimnotgym 2y agoI can't think of a single SUV that is built on top of a chassis on sale in 2025?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 2y ago> Most use cases for a pickup truck that's only sold in North America are in the part of America where you're much more likely to crash into a tree, deer, fence post, etc than you are a person. Not many trees, deer, fence posts in the Costco parking lot compared to people.
- rsynnott 2y agoDunno; last time I was in SF, I saw one of these absurd items (they are even sillier in person), right in the city, lots of people around. If they’re so rural-adapted, perhaps they shouldn’t be allowed enter built-up areas.