@DrTCombs I just feel sick watching this. The amount of these monsters in the CITY, emphasis on CITY, of Montreal, is appalling. No one needs these in the city (and arguably, nowhere) to do their monthly Costco shop.

I've started making little pamphlets with similar images (from the media) and sneaking them into their windshields, but I'm genuinely afraid of getting beaten up one day for violating their windshield freedom...

@DrTCombs why do you need such big cars? 🤔

@DrTCombs bonus points for parking on the sidewalk so people who use mobility aids can't get past it

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As there is no practical reason for this, these are literally murdermobiles. How anyone can look at these fronts and not immediately imagine a cartoon villain cackling at the wheel is alien to me.

@DrTCombs im concerned if we use the current chevy truck model each yeah and the same girl we will find ourselves i 2034 with a 5ft high, taller than 30% of adult population, as the norm

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I'm 6' tall and there's a couple Suburban Assault Vehicles in my neighborhood I can't see over the hood. It's wild.

@DrTCombs Let me paraphrase these pictures:

Those machines are needed for transportation, but what good are your kids for?

@DrTCombs I just want a plug-in hybrid Maverick!

@DrTCombs it’s crazy the kind of vehicles that are allowed on the road. I know I’m old, but we used to actually have regulations

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I'm surprised they haven't added spikes or something to the front for easier removal of smaller obstacles. /s

@DrTCombs and also in the 2022 picture, taking up 3/4 of the sidewalk. How appropriately American.

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The design of these trucks is ridiculous. We have a farm, and actually use a truck, and the best truck we have ever had was an F150 full bed, regular cab, standard, work truck built in 1985. Likely looks like a toy next to these stupid things, but could outwork any of them all day long and could be repaired in the field if need be. I drive a 2008 Corolla for daily stuff, and it's impossible to see around these behemoth trucks in parking lots or on the road.

@DrTCombs@transportation.social Good thing my F-250 has radar in the front to alert me of things I can not see.

@DrTCombs i had to cross the street with a modified one that couldn't see me and had loud music so they couldn't hear me. They almost hit me but i had been gesturing at their passenger, who stopped them.

Im 5'8" without shoes.

I think you'd have had to be more like 6' to bee seen over the central intake hood thingy, though 5'10 would be fine elsewhere... You don't even really get in trouble for killing people with your vehicle. No jail. Just an "accident."

These trucks need banned.

anyone who thinks the problem with these trucks can be solved with radars or cameras has not been paying attention

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I need to get some "child murderer" bumper stickers to slap on these puppies

@DrTCombs@transportation.social They grow up so fast (the trucks, that is)

@DrTCombs to me it seems she shrunk in comparison, meaning the truck got bigger at a faster rate. (I hope that makes sense)

Trucks are the absolute biggest waste of resources ever! There is absolutely no reason for the average driver to drive one.

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“Suburban Personnel Carriers.”

@DrTCombs Well the kid is not growing fast enough. Maybe taller shoes or stilts are the way to go.

We can obviously not build smaller cars because our core identity. So stilts is the way to go.

@DrTCombs take all 4 valve cores out whenever you see one. Leave a note, as the muppets driving these things probably wouldn't notice 4 flats!

@DrTCombs how are these things even road legal?

I'm glad the #SuperUselessVehicle wave in #Europe isn't that extreme as regular car driving licenses max out at 3,5t MGW.

Also note these solely exist so that greedy manufacturers can charge more for a worse car that also doesn't comply with the #EPA's #CAFE emissions standards...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo

@DrTCombs I'm a fully grown adult and I'm not taller than the front of those monsters either!

@DrTCombs It's really dangerous in itself but a point people often forget is that vehicles with wheels this large can easily climb curbs making them even more dangerous to pedestrians.

@SheDrivesMobility ^^

@DrTCombs Well okay but have you thought about having a taller child?

@DrTCombs a safe space for "alpha" males

@DrTCombs These things DWARF our 1997 4runner. I was parked on a street between two of them and though I was walking to the wrong car because it was so small next to the trucks. No, the trucks are just enormous.

@DrTCombs I've had occasion to drive a (2016?) Silverado. The grill is so ridiculous that anywhere near pedestrians I was more comfortable backing up than going forward--better visibility with the backup camera than the windshield!

@DrTCombs Just say "That's quite a lorry, mate!" whenever you meet the owner.

@DrTCombs This reminds me of an incident I had with a police SUV.

I drove a small sports car at the time. I pulled up to a stop sign where the drive dipped down into the road a bit. A police orca pulled up behind me. As I waited for traffic to clear, they rolled into me.

They got so close I disappeared under their hood and they thought I had pulled out and was no longer there.

So this isn’t a hypothetical problem. There could easily have been a child crossing the string there.

@DrTCombs Wank Panzers. Normalise the use of the name for them and they will disappear.

@DrTCombs Not long ago I parked my compact hatchback car next to one of these things, and had the horrifying realization that it's bumper was literally my eye level when driving. If I were in a collision with one I'd be crushed.

@DrTCombs vehicles designed and made by the brain dead for the zombies to drive around.

@DrTCombs lest we not forget this lovely diagram 🫠

@DrTCombs The best single thing the government can do to combat climate is to tax vehicle by weight.

@DrTCombs Well, if you're child mower doesn't at least reach child height, how could you possibly have any confidence it will work?

@DrTCombs You're not feeding those kids enough oil and gasoline!

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Little men drive big trucks.

@DrTCombs Their parking on the sidewalk is a nice touch too.

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Require a CDL to drive one of these things. That might fix it.

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It used to be you needed a special license to drive something that big. Why's that not a thing any more?

I've heard that people drive these behemoths for safety reasons. Which makes sense—when two vehicles collide, the bigger one's gonna win. An arms race, basically, except bigger trucks instead of bigger bombs. If that's the case, then only government regulations can put a stop to it; people serving their self-interest certainly aren't going to.

@DrTCombs horrific.

@DrTCombs Yes it is ridiculous!

@DrTCombs these oversized pieces of crap have made their way into South Australia. They do come with a reputation though, generally if you own one of these you are seen as a complete wanker.

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I hate cars. If they are allowed at all, they need speed limiters on them. They shouldn't be more than 500 kg gross weight (golf carts) and they should be designed so the driver is all the way at the front in a thinly protected mostly glass bubble. When they know the first person to get severely injured or die will be themselves, they will drive carefully.

@fuck_cars_bot

@DrTCombs better known as Clownmobiles 🤡 as Mr moneymustache calls then 😅

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Cars also grow, inversely proportional to the owner's personality.

@DrTCombs I think about this pretty regularly. You simply can't buy the smaller truck anymore in the US, at least not new. (Of course based on your profile I know I'm preaching to the choir. It just chaps my hide.)

@DrTCombs I thought monster trucks are only allowed at shows.

@DrTCombs Hmm, 🤔 maybe if with legislation it cannot be resolved , the 'problem' caused by the purchase should be attacked, offering users of such vehicles health treatments for their psychological problems of frustration, low self-esteem, sexual impotence and small genitals, eh

@DrTCombs It’s a classic economic problem of externalities whose costs are not borne by the owners.

France has some good ideas here. Owners pay 3x the price to park. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240204-parisians-called-to-vote-on-suv-parking-surcharge

@DrTCombs Absolutely outrageous.

Also, I posted an image like that once, with me (an adult) standing in front of one of these monstrosities. (Edit: Not here on mastodon. Guess where...) A lot of the responses were "well you're just f***** small, so lol"

So yeah. 🙃

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Don’t tend to see these in the uk but we do have some hefty SUV’s on the school run. I drive an suv (big fam, I need it) but purposefully chose one with a lower nose.

Was waiting to turn out onto a dual carriageway once, bloke in a hefty suv was stopped and waving me through but I couldn’t see past him to be sure nothing coming down the 2nd lane so told him to go, he got very insistent and angry with me for not trusting him and turn out blindly 😂

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Container ship on wheels
I have one that I drive as little as possible. If it's not work then it has the truck camper on it, Driving it anywhere where there are kids is a white knuckle experience for me. A grocery store parking lot is sweating time. I have added a bigger screen and an extra camera in front. TBH The Mini Cooper we have has a worse rear view and does not have a camera. I don't understand having one of these in a city. Ugh.

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While biking I stop quite a distance away from such vehicles in hopes of driver seeing me, kids don't know such practices

@DrTCombs I keep thinking of schoolbuses, which are much bigger, and still have better visibility.

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Buy a 4 feet tall hover machine. 😋

@DrTCombs These trucks are big because of stupid tax laws. It was covered by Planet Money. These large vehicles also require more fuel each month which costs the owner so much more as well. The majority of these trucks will not even toe a single trailer once. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/01/25/511663527/episode-632-the-chicken-tax

@DrTCombs we're going to have to start putting those bright orange bike flags on our kids.

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It’s ridiculous how massive these penis extenders have become. The irrational need to encase oneself in larger and larger metal cages to 1. Keep the rabble out 2. “Prove” one's virility or 3. Own the libtards is as pathetic as it is deadly.

#BikeTooter

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If you opened the bonnet and looked inside, you would see that their ginormungous grilles and flat bonnets are purely cosmetic.
These thing should be a a svelte as a Camaro, Challenger or Mustang up front.

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Why are your kids walking in front of trucks?🙄

@DrTCombs Good thing those drivers have enough room to take their gun collections around with them! Would be a shame to go to the grocery store unarmed, and with enough room for only two weeks of groceries.

@DrTCombs Never any construction materials in the back of those trucks.

@DrTCombs #wankPanzer

@DrTCombs you know not for nothing, it's getting old with the ridiculous resentment of trucks. Owning one of these without purpose, i get it. but some ridiculous assertions such as vision are twisted, they see far more in advance than a corolla close to the ground, school buses , ban them too? I need my truck for work and its barely enough. I sure hope none of you are hypocrites, the ones who call a friend with a truck on moving day, I know plenty of them.they never call a Prius owner.

@DrTCombs I've been to Stockholm, they could make a case against most of you

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Maybe they need a hat like this?

@DrTCombs the designers of these vehicles should be taken to court for conspiring to commit acts of violence.

@DrTCombs I miss 1980s mini pickups. Wasn't there some legislative reason those went away and we got these monsters?

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More children are dying in pedestrian collisions so that a few truck owners can feel less sad about their small penises.

@DrTCombs that is terrifying, truly terrifying. Much better to use a panel van for a work vehicle I would have thought.

But I wonder if these are not even working vehicles but used as family cars, which just seems idiotic.

@DrTCombs @magalhini @bllgvn Woa. I live in France and I've never seen one of these. Even when I lived in Boston and don't remember seeing one. In French we have a saying (which we apply to much smaller cars though) : big car, small dick. Hope that helps 😅

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DIE GEHÖREN V E R B O T E N. PUNKT.

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Canyonero! 🎶
https://youtu.be/PI_Jl5WFQkA?si=orA6SraK4JI-Zm14

@DrTCombs I am personally in favour of hardening the rules to ratify cars for driving public infrastructure. The are already emission rules, we just need one more rule : driver must be able to see something on the ground two meters in front of the car.

That would immediately stop the sales and production of these absurdities, and free maker's time for designing properly.

@DrTCombs I predict that in 20 years trucks will be so tall, that they will just drive right over kids without harming them. Like those lowrider cars with hydraulics but to the extreme. So long they can avoid the tyres.

@DrTCombs the cars grow with the children. Wait till she’s 18! 😳😂

@DrTCombs take a 4" metal spike with you and trash the 2 side tires as you walk past. You'll find they stop parking in your hood soon enough.

@DrTCombs clearly you need to trade in your kid in for a Dutch model. It’s the only sensible way forward!

@DrTCombs Americans are the mot insecure and overcompensating people in the world, it seems.

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It's saying something about the owners, just can't say publicly

@DrTCombs typical evolutionary predator/prey relationship

@DrTCombs wait till they are adult and urban monster trucks have grown enough to crush them under their wheels still!

@DrTCombs The obvious solution is to buy one of these and turn it into a hat:
https://www.tolcocorp.com/portfolio-view/28-collapsible-traffic-cone-optional-light/

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@DrTCombs I can't help but notice the fact that the suspension of that vehicle seems to have been extended quite a bit. Of course a truck like that has more clearance than a regular car, but this is ridiculous.

(Apart from the fact that you do not need such a large truck when you're not a farmer or operator of another business requiring that sort of vehicle, of course.)

@DrTCombs I'm also super fond of how they're pulled up on the sidewalk so no one will hit their 100k deathmobile and also so that people using wheelchairs and with other mobility issues can't get through. A++ societal failure.

@DrTCombs You clearly need to arm kids.

@DrTCombs @kommaKucken Interesting negativ mathematical correlation between the height of kids over time and the shrinking of penis size of fragile egos over the same time frame.

@DrTCombs Patserbak XXXXL

@DrTCombs some kind of shaped thermite construction you could place on the hood and cut into the engine block, rendering the vehicle safe?