Reason #39476 that the Toyota Hilux will never make it onto 'Murican shores.
Tbf the newer mainline Hiluxes have also turned into bloated monstrosities, so much so that Toyota developed an entirely separate Hilux “Champ” model to serve as a light workhorse truck
Wasn’t this the main selling point of the cybertruck, almost verbatim?
Yeah, that shit was so disgusting. Your car will just drive over the other car in case of an apocalypse. In an accident, it will just be the other guys problem
That’s why i don’t feel bad for the idiots who bought the Reichs mobile
Which has been hilarious when put into practice, as seen pictured is a cybertruck leaving its rear axle behind after a collision.
Edit: I posted this as a reply to the comment of driving over someone else.
Maybe. But in reality people in Cybertruck are more prone to die from the collision than anyone in a similar sized car.
Because…the exoskelton design does not disperse energy in a collision, so that energy is transfered to the Nazis in the cabin.
While Musk sold the idea of bulletproof windows, those would be illegal because EMTs could not use then in an emergency. Side windows are supposed to break. His syncophants at Tesla were too scared to tell him his idea was stupid, so he threw a bearing through the window live.
Probably because they think seatbelts are woke.
Sure, but it’s the “thought” that counts.
I remember decades ago, even before the SUV mania, a colleague of mine who was this little woman and drove a large all terrain car (in the city) because “it made her feel safe”.
As it turns those vehicles had a higher likelihood for the driver to lose control and roll-over than normal cars.
It’s a mix of stupid and selfishness to the point of Evil.
I have literally heard a Jeep owner express such an attitude. Not specifically that the other family would die and theirs would not, but that theirs would be minimally damaged and the other would be crushed.
This was on a date. I obviously did not go on a second date with her. This was a big ass red flag.
Which is wild because it’s a Jeep.
How is it going to make it all the way to the scene of the accident?
I’ve never seen a more unreliable POS in my life.
I also stopped dating someone immediately after their attitude on SUVs came out. Dealbreaker
It’s a surprise to hear how many truck/SUV owners are women. The theory delivered has been that women generally feel unsafe in the open due to misogynistic behavior as well as rare cases of road rage, and so a big tough car acts as a “safety blanket” - so even in traffic when surrounded, they can feel control and ownership of their space.
That’s a stretched theory but it could make sense.
You clearly don’t know many fairly well-off (or aspirationally well-off) women / mothers, if this is surprising to you.
Its not a theory. Its… many of them will just tell you that, verbatim, if you ask them.
“I just don’t feel safe in a smaller car.”
Its a primary component of the marketing angle the US entire auto industry has been using to market to ‘the affluent careerist modern woman’ / ‘responsible and practical mom’ for … two decades now?
Big car = You are safe.
(and stylish or powerful or practical or eco-conscious or rugged or w/e other adjective)
For moms, an SUV is a minivan from the 90s, but with more style and performance.
For yuppie women, an SUV is a luxury sedan or coupe, but tank-sized, more authority commanding, more intimidating.
(Modern US SUVs are routinely as large or larger than actual M4 Sherman tanks from WW2, sans cannon barrel, if you go by volume, ‘bounding box’)
… I’m surprised that you’re surprised by this.
With women truck drivers, I can understand that somewhat more, as you apparently just don’t know too many white trash women, who are disproportionately Republican.
Makes sense here on lemmy.
For the entire MAGA type of people, well, trucks are real cars, everything else is “gay” or at least not as strong, or capable.
… even though that hardly ever actually is the case in any kind of practical or realistic terms.
Its all marketing, all appealing to the consumer, in ways said consumer both does and does not realize they are being appealed to.
It’s all about how buying, “owning”, and operating some kind of vehicle makes you feel, and what your exact choice, what message you think that sends to other people.
Here, I found this after writing my first section, and its almost verbatim what I said:
https://agirlsguidetocars.com/women-driving-suv-sales
Safety matters most for women
Married and single women love SUVs for many reasons. They are multi-purpose and, depending on your needs, come in varying sizes. If you have a family, an SUV is easy to drive and still provides room for the kids, the soccer balls and your groceries – and it’s so much cooler than a minivan.
For single women, the same multi-purpose features are attractive. The interior of an SUV is spacious and the elevation in the vehicle provides a better view of the road. The SUVs are also durable, reliable and most of all safe. And safety ranks higher with women than with men. Maybe it’s our nurturing nature – whether we’re nurturing our kids or our friends.
Yeah that’s from 2016.
This has just been how SUV marketing in particular has worked basically since I got out of high school. almost 20 years ago now.
kinda wild how weaponized psychology is, and everyone kind of thinks they’re immune to it themselves till one day it smacks em in the face
People are sold on the idea that bigger vehicles are safer. Complete lie:
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They take longer distances to stop
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They do not have to meet safety standards of cars due to a regualtory loophole.
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They flip much easier because of the high centre of mass, and this is worse with stuff in the truck. It gets much worse with the lifting trend. So lifters then space out the wheels, which is not what the suspension was designed for and suspension arms and hubs crack.
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Some have 16 ft front blind spots, people are running over their own children in driveways.
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They are worse in snow and ice, because chunky man tires are not winter rated and heavier vehicles slide off roads easier.
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the middle aged white woman with bleached blonde hair and designer clothes in a big white SUV is such an interesting trend
A colleague of mine who was a little woman, decades ago and even before the SUV craze, drove a car like that (which was stupidly large for her size) because it made her feel safe.
Years later I found out such cars were more likely to roll-over than other cars.
This honestly sounds likely. My step-mother, in the 80s, said something like this when she got an SUV (before the term had even kicked in). She felt safer and more confident being higher than the rest of the traffic. I “get it”, but it’s a race to the bottom (or top?). Maybe if they get tall enough, some of us can get ultra efficient and low profile wedge shaped cars and just dodge underneath these gigantic abominations.
We need to see more cars with a wedge shape, extremely tough body, and explosive flipping mechanism.
Taller vehicles, driven standing up like a speedboat. Hurrr
That’s fine for Mad Max style extended chases where you want to board other vehicles, but in a head-on collision a wedge is going to win every time. Taller vehicles are just easier to flip.
I don’t think it’s a gender thing at all, people just like the higher seating position and the upper hand in the case of a collision. I’m personally a small hatch guy, but every time I’ve asked somebody why they want a bigger car despite not carrying anything those are the two reasons I got back, gender regardless.
I thought of you all the other day when somebody in a newer pickup truck got behind me driving my Mazda 3. I didn’t take a photo in my rear view mirror because safe driving and all that, but I felt like I was living in some kind of AI generated c/fuckcars meme.
In my mirror the front of the truck looked like a WALL the height of a grown adult with a little thin stripe of windshield above it. AND there was a big hood scoop on top of that. The little stripe of windshield was like 10’/3m behind the wall at the front of the truck too, just to make the visibility as dangerous as possible.
yep it’s absolutely ridiculous
I’ve got a car with 8 inches of ground clearance, that can carry 8ft dimensional lumber inside the vehicle, tow a thousand pounds of material in my relatively lightweight trailer, make it through snowstorms to ski hills and muddy fields and some ATV tracks, tow other vehicles up steep slippery inclines, haul full size BBQs and similar fully assembled inside the vehicle, and yet I pull up alongside a newer generation of the same model and their window bottom is at my eye level. or a pickup is on my ass and I can’t see anything but the lower half of the grill, and its headlights are shining directly into my car and leaving a crisp white line on the headliner from through my rear window.
also obligatory fuck your Mazda too, if you have a newer one with LED headlights. if not, disregard. I miss my '08 Mazda3, even if it did suck in the snow. mostly my fault for using regular size and width winter tires. but seriously, fuck Mazda’s LED headlights. I’ve seen it twice already this year that a pedestrian was nearly run over in a crosswalk because a driver couldn’t see them due to a Mazda3 on the other side of the four way stop.
Fortunately my Mazda 3 is over a decade old and the headlights are actually too dim if anything. I need to polish the housings too. It sucks to hear that they are jumping on the annoying blinding headlight bandwagon along with some other brands though. They seem to do a lot of little things right in their designs.
I’ve posted a couple times about how I load 8’ dimensional lumber into my Mazda3 as well, lol. Usually the people around me are driving their giant trucks and not loading jack shit into them.
yeah you can fit 8ft lumber into a Yaris two door hatchback. it’s easier than sticking out the back of a truck bed lmao
I do remember having to polish the headlights on my mazda3, as well as pretty much every car that gets to be over 10-15 years old. the Mazda headlight shape was easy, Subaru’s is annoying to sand and polish because of all the curves.
I always enjoy turning heads at home depot when loading up.
it is disappointing about Mazda. they were among the first to go back to physical controls and whatnot. but unfortunately the headlights are a dealbreaker, it’s just too goddamn obnoxious and dangerous
Mazda 3
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I have definitely developed an appreciation for Mazda over the years. I keep toying with the idea of an MX-5 for my next car. (I live in suburban USA where driving is required, and I have a short twisty drive to work when I go into the office)
What is the perfect bumper height to make sure I decapitate a ten year old?
you can add cool wheels to grind that child first. Completely legal.
Completely legal.
You gotta be kidding! Quote from the dutch -mandatory- annual car inspection (known as APK) which is actually an European directive, So it applies to every EU country
External safety including wheel and side guards 1. Passenger cars must not have sharp parts that could pose a risk of personal injury to other road users in the event of a collision.Terrifying fact, I see them a lot on semi trucks. Not the cab over kind, the ones with the big hood in front.
Haha you think EU people want to buy this? Naw, this is good ol American murder tires.
Dodge ram and up.
I mean that’s really what you want to do.
You wouldn’t want her to live life as a cripple so better to just bump it up a little bit and ensure a clean death.
Around here, the bigger the cars gets, the lower the speed limit. In the end, the harm to a pedestrian equals car mass multiplied with car speed. One goes up so the other one goes down to compensate. Have fun driving that tank like a snail.
Where is “here” for you? I’ve never heard of a place with variable speed limits.
Here is Western Europe. It’s not variable. It’s the new limit for everyone. 30 kph popping up everywhere now.
I’m confused, you said the bigger the vehicle then the lower the speed limit in your original comment.
it says “the cars” as in the average car on the road.
“Around here the bigger the average car on the road, the lower the speed limit.”
The question still stands. He said the bigger the car the lower the speed limit.
Ah got you. I interpreted it as that larger vehicles are subject to slower speed limits.
They should be. We should limit by kinetic energy, not speed.
Ah yes, your average cybertruck owner.
Works better for pick-up trucks in general, a cybertruck will probably kill you along with the people in the other car.
… And with this in mind, do you discourage people with this attitude from buying the cybertrack, or rather encourage?..
Dilemma, I guess. Most of us want neither the dumm looking trucks nor the attitude.
Weirdly enough the cyber trucks sloped don’t probably gives it better visibility than most other pick ups…
Personally I just look for a vehicle with the brightest headlights. /s
Catbox.moe is blocked for many people. Please consider using another image host, like https://imgbb.com/
While I do sometimes have that problem, they also could have just linked the Onion Article instead of screenshotting it
What? Why is it blocked and for whom? I’ve had far fewer issues with it than I’ve had with the often slow-loading imgbb and the short time when imgbb went all-in on full-paid access before they changed their mind and went back to allowing a free tier.
Check out their faq, the last section
Example blurb
Verizon Why? - Unknown. This is a DNS based block, which means Verizon’s DNS servers are returning no result for catbox.moe.
Verizon blocks catbox. I just changed my dns to cloudflare.
for whom?
Me, and many others
Why is it blocked
You’ll have to ask them. They insist they aren’t, but I promise you I am not blocking them either, so it’s them.
This was not a tech support request. I promise you all that I know what I am doing and it is not on my side and I’m not the only person with this exact problem.
It sounds like your ISP is blocking access. Have you tried using a different DNS server? My ISP blocks thepiratebay and I easily get around it using the Cloudflare DNS server.
You’ll have to ask them. They insist they aren’t, but I promise you I am not blocking them either, so it’s them.
Could it be someone between you and them? Is there a bug report or discussion tracking this problem which people could try to help solve?
Is it blocked on a VPN?
I can’t even open links to that site through Tor, and not because the site answers with 403, but because it never connects at all.
Funny thing is, this is posted on lemmy.world by a user registered on lemmy.world, and that instance includes its own image-hosting functionality. Just need to choose the option to upload the image when making the post. I’m guessing some apps might not be aware of it, and perhaps integrate with Catbox instead.
This is in fact the same consideration that easily resolves some philosophical questions about self-driving cars. “If the car has to choose between mowing over a pedestrian and swerving but potentially killing the driver, what will it choose?” Yeah this one is simple: if you make a car that might kill its driver, good luck trying to sell it.
