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I just don’t understand how can people enjoy driving this boat. You see nothing, parking is a nightmare and what benefits do you get?
They like the idea of everyone looking at them longingly. What they don’t realize is everyone is looking at their abhorrent vehicle.
My truck is a luxury SUV without the back end being covered, has alll the comforts you’d need. Amazing vehicle
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Make pee pee feel big
I know how to use a cross walk (the signal lights up and makes announcements here, it’s hard to get confused by it) and have still been almost hit multiple times after I started crossing. I don’t wear urban camo, people truly just don’t even look for anything except other cars. ‘Is something that can fuck me up in the way? No? Time to blindly accelerate!!’
It’s even worse in parking lots. ‘I’m in my car now, time to go!’ with zero understanding that they just walked through the parking lot and other people might also be walking through it.
In college I sometimes biked to campus. I lived a few blocks from it (technically less than a block, but there wasn’t an exit on the corner). I remember one day biking back, crossing the road to where I lived, and a car damn near almost ran me over. It was only like a 20mph street, and I wasn’t speeding by, so they had plenty of time to see me. That moment stuck with me to never trust that drivers are doing the right thing. Just because you have the right to do something doesn’t mean you won’t be hit doing it. Luckily, IIRC, it was a small car though, so even if it had hit me I probably would have been mostly fine.
Boy have I got the solution for you
Just carry a brick and wave it at traffic as you cross. Make sure they know that you can fuck them up and everyone should play nice.
I’d wager that a fake and lightweight but realistic looking brick for ease of carrying around would probably work too, since it’s the visual warning you’re after
But if what I need to use brick? Should I carry a backup real brick© just in case?
a well-marked emergency propane tank is also acceptable.
I always have those on me! Good thinking my friend.
Maybe Ninja Rocks could be the solution for you. Only fucks up windows, though
Actual drawing of a 2018+ Chevy truck. Fucking butt ass ugly pieces of shit, like almost all new cars. I’ll go back to 2004 thanks, when cars were peak.
If it has to be cars, I prefer the Trabant or Citroen DS style look. Those are beautiful.
But that said… what is y’alls favourite bicycle? I personally really like the omafiets ones, they’re solid and have incredible durability. I’ve seen people easily do 15+ years with them, and they can also carry two adult people sometimes (one on the saddle, another on the luggage carrier if it’s steel).
For brands I never buy anything but Dutch-manufactured, tbh.
Isn’t the trabant made of plastic?
Why do they make the grille so tall on pickups? Styling? It has to negatively affect aerodynamics. Same with visibility in front of the vehicle. Commercial trucks have big frames and huge radiators, so they just look how they have to look. I think that American car makers just style their pickups like that to make them look more like commercial trucks.
https://matt.jajkowski.com/blog/cars/y-are-trucks-so-big-now-the-surprising-role-of-cafe-standards/
Pretty sure this is a lot of it. By making them bigger all the proportions change thus a big grille for a massive truck.
It makes PP more bigger.
smaller*
Yes, the paneling choices on modern consumer pickups definitely seek to emulate the aesthetics of a semi-trailer cab. Which is a vehicle that you need a special class of license to operate and can only legally drive on specific roads, even in the US.
Yeah, I drove one of those as my job for 5 or 6 years. Why anyone would want their personal vehicle to emulate those in any way is beyond me. They suck.
special roads? you mean almost all roads that don’t have silly signs?
Yessir, the more wall-like the front of the truck is, the more better it is and the more of a big strong boy the driver is.
I have to give credit to the drawing in the OP, since they even got it right that the hood line is now higher than the rest of the midline created by the bottoms of the windows and the top of the bed.
