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For those, like me, who aren't familiar with the term "rolling coal": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal
by andyjohnson0 5mo ago
For those, like me, who aren't familiar with the term "rolling coal": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal
- hughdbrown 5mo agoI had a driver in a Ford F-150 do this in front of me last week as he pulled away from a light. The smoke totally blacked out the windshield for 5 seconds while I was in motion. I was totally blinded by this. I had no idea this was a thing, much less that it was something people did on purpose.
- bityard 5mo agoI wish they'd go back to just hanging plastic testicles from the trailer hitch, honestly.
- malfist 5mo agoSomething like these? https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1h82ja1/new_generation_of_truck_nuts/ https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1h82ja1/new_generati...
- mindslight 5mo agoMaybe they finally realized that they had been giving their trucks gender affirming care.
- js2 5mo agohttps://old.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1tdj76y/oc_idiots_in_monster_truck/ https://old.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1tdj76y/oc_id... Many more: https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/search/?q=coal&restrict_sr=on https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/search/?q=coal&restric...
- donkyrf 5mo agoIt's very much on purpose. To do it with a modern diesel truck you need to remove the DPF, and reprogram the ECU to run rich and to ignore the missing DPF.
- marysol5 5mo agoHad a car in front of me have a rapid deconstruction of the engine in front of me while driving down a motorway. Driving into a ploom of steam and smoke, while also being hit with fragments was terrifying.
- rsync 5mo ago... and for those that assume, understandably, that this is strictly a US cultural phenomenon, I must (sadly) report that I saw a very new Ram 1500 dump black exhaust onto a cyclist on the 9 between Saint-Léonard and Crans-Montana. This happened in summer of 2022. In terms of US cultural exports, for every jazz music and snowboarding I guess there has to be some coal rolling and fake service dogs.
- ChoGGi 5mo agoI see rolling coal pretty regular in Alberta, Canada. Though not as an intentional act towards bicycles/EVs behind the truck, just people with a rich mixture that like burning money. That and it's legal to do a diesel delete...
- Gigachad 5mo agoI’ve never seen it in Australia. Rarely you see a rusted out shitbox with bad emissions but I’ve never seen a new vehicle modified like this.
- mrgoldenbrown 5mo agoI think the wikipedia page downplays how often it's used to try to hurt or annoy cyclists, pedestrians, or anyone who looks liberal/foreign. It's not just anti environmentalists who do it, it's a general MAGA thing.
- KennyBlanken 5mo ago"Try" to hurt? Half-burned diesel particulate is absolutely cancerous, it can enter the bloodstream and cross the blood-brain barrier and they're generating clouds of it, probably thousands of times more than what a modern 18 wheeler puts out in half an hour of driving. And they're doing it to someone breathing hard. If I sprayed some cancerous chemical in someone's face, I'd be arrested within the hour. I'd be on the regional news, even. The double standards around motor vehicles never cease to amaze.
- stavros 5mo agoWtf people are doing this on purpose? What's wrong with people?
- curt15 5mo agoChest-thumping
- llm_nerd 5mo agoCan you provide a citation on this? Sounds like worthless conjecture. Please provide a arXiv claim to back up your post or delete it from HN.
- mmh0000 5mo agoThe "people" doing this are exactly the type of people you'd expect... Just the first thing that came up in a youtube search, there are thousands more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYPMbLO4pAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYPMbLO4pAY
- fsniper 5mo agoWhat on earth? I can't understand USA at all..
- benchloftbrunch 5mo agoWe Americans can't understand ourselves either.