[basilikum]

Americans and their cars are simply insane. Most cars here in Europe are, well, cars. Still dangerous tons of fast moving metal bullets, but in the US cars are essentially designed to efficiently kill children. The hood of many cars is so high that you ensure to hit the kid's head in an accident. And people drive these huge tanks in the city where there is zero need for them and they are just impractical in every way because you compete for limited space.

[theultdev]

if any car hits a child it's probably going to kill them.

they aren't tall enough to roll over the top, even a smaller sedan.

being defensive around stupid people is a lesson, teach the child to always be aware when near a road.

[basilikum]

> if any car hits a child it's probably going to kill them.

That's not true. Obviously if you hit a child on the highway with 100km/h that child is gonna be dead. But when you're going 30 in a residential area and suddenly there is a child in front of you car, so you hit the break slowing down to 15km/h it makes a huge difference how your car is build.

> being defensive around stupid people is a lesson, teach the child to always be aware when near a road.

Safety doesn't work by just teaching the weakest part to protect themselves while allowing everyone else to build more and more deadly machines. This car centricity that puts the blame on pedestrians for daring to walk in the sacred car reserved area that separates everything from each other is exactly the problem.

These huge trucks are dangerous for absolutely no reason and they also take away insane amounts of space for no reason. They make everyone unsafe, destroy the planet and make cities shittier.

[theultdev]

You don't know what people use their trucks for.

They have utility and getting rid of trucks in the name of safety is really stupid. How are you going to stock food, how are you going to transport goods?

There's safety, then there's regression. Might as well put everyone in a bubble suit.

[californical]

They’re talking about pickup trucks, not delivery semis.

And if you look at pickup trucks, they’ve gotten way taller since the 00’s, for no reason except style.

[steveklabnik]

> for no reason except style.

There are other reasons (not that they're good ones):

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/energy/how-us-emiss...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy

[theultdev]

So take everyone's pickup away and your child still gets hit by an illegal driving a u-haul, okay.

Just teach safety and enforce speeding/dwi/immigration laws.

Much better than taking a certain vehicle away from law abiding citizens.

I need my large truck just as much as I need my EV. I haul stuff constantly while also driving safely and following all laws.