Those monstrosities should be f*ing illegal

States should be taxing or increasing licensing fees on these vehicles to pay for the increased medical services because of these unsafe vehicles.

In Australia they're registered as trucks, and drivers have to follow truck rules, including special low speed limits on hills, restrictions from minor roads except where that's their destination
This isn't a big impost on them, but it makes them less desirable for people who would use them as daily drivers
The state is actually a big part of the problem in this case. Small gas trucks are effectively illegal.
Automakers were fucking around with vehicle classifications in the 2000s to get around CAFE regulations. Things like the PT Cruiser were being classified as trucks. So starting in 2012, CAFE regulations were changed so that fuel economy standards were based on vehicle footprint. But it had a huge unintended consequence.
Suddenly a Toyota Corolla had less-strict fuel economy standards than small commercial vehicles like the Dakota, S-10, and Ranger. Notice how all 3 models were discontinued by 2012? And now that the Ranger is "back" its footprint is larger than some old F-150s?
As the CAFE standards get stricter over time, manufacturers have learned it's easier to just make the car bigger than to meet the fuel economy standards. They've made the marketing about penisnsize and shit, but it's really more about meeting regulations.
A more recent casualty was small cargo vans. The Transit Connect, ProMaster City, and NV200 were all discontinued by 2022 because small cargo vans can't meet CAFE. This is also why New York had to cancel its new Taxi fleet that was based on the NV200.
In the 1000% range.

If I recall my driver's ed, most current "rules of the road" (such as leave a two second gap) are based around WW2 tank driving regulations.
I want to see your pic but I can't download it or magnify it.

We should start packing nitroglycerin into kids backpacks to force drivers to be more careful. Sure, some kids would die unnecessarily but dead children seems to be a price Americans are very willing to pay.

Didn't that other dude say something similar about gun deaths?
Sure but what if some parents are too lazy or bad with money to be able to buy their children nitroglycerin without receiving government handouts? I don't want my tax dollars helping strangers kids.
/s seems necessary here

How can I get my goods to market if I dont have a long haul bus?

Oh wow. They did the math.

YSK you can say "fuck" on the internet

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Especially on the fediverse, we don't have corporate sponsors, who want us to be sterilized.
- Our corporate ~~owners~~ sponsors don't want us to be sterilized. They want us to breed more good little consumers.
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Eh, you can also say f*ing if you want ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
It's a form of engagement hacking.
Well fuck

*fucking. You can say fucking on the internet. Don't worry, we won't tell your mommy.

I didn't know, fuck you very much ! :-)
- You're fucking welcome.

How would they carry stuff, guns and their alpha male ego? Did you think about that? /s

Trying to ban them would be extraordinarily difficult. A potential solution would be to push to reclassify them as trucks, under trucking regulations (I'm unsure how this is done in the US). Once you need a tachograph and a requirement to keep driving records, it would cut back on sales. It also still allows "legitimate" usage. This would weaken the argument against the change.

Basically anything where you can't see a 5 year old within 0.5m of your bumper should be under "truck" rules, not "car" rules.

For this purpose, it’s not a question of banning them, but adding pedestrian safety regulations. You can still build these monstrosities while also providing better visibility and less likelihood for victims to be run over.
It’s just banning the “wall” of the front. That’s only required as a style choice and style should not trump safety
I’ve actually been paying more attention lately since my brother bought a Chevy ~~Behemoth~~ Silverado EV. As a big and tall guy I’m used to being bigger than most people I encounter, but looking at the “wall” at the front of these vehicles, it is also well above my center of mass. I would also be thrown down and run over. It’s not just children but there really is no “big enough” to survive getting hit with those
(And yes I will keep giving my brother a hard time. After All these years of owning a house and large property where he could have argued he needed a truck, he gets one after he gave up that property. He bought this monstrosity to commute alone and do road trips alone. Nothing to tow. Nothing to haul.)
- “Nothing to to tow, nothing to haul.” is so typical. And when they do it’s something even a sedan could pull or a van would have been better for. And then they’ll claim they want winter safety even as I comfortably rip by them in a blizzard with my goddamn BRZ(partly because I actually bought winter tires and they think their frozen “all-terrain” tires are good enough).
- We fixed the problem with SUV blindspots by putting rear view cameras on cars, I almost wonder if the solution here is more cameras. Front-facing would get much dirtier tho.
I'm feeling similarly. Require a minimum sight lines for shorter humans in front of the vehicle, and lower weight/size limitations on vehicles for a standard Class D license, and a short 1-2 year grandfather period for folks who already own a vehicle that they'll require additional licensing to continue driving so that they can either trade it or get their ducks in a row and continue driving their vehicle legally.
These gigantic trucks and SUVs are unacceptable on our roads and they keep adding extra wear to our roads due to the increased weight, require larger parking spaces and of course are far more deadly to those outside of the vehicle in any kind of collision. They need to be regulated back into the niches their classes were originally designed to fill.
And for those saying "oh but I need a bed for this that and the other" guess what? you can buy a trailer. Drive around an efficient vehicle then hook up an 8 foot trailer (bigger than basically any truck bed these days!) when you need to haul shit

12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American pride!

Four wheel drive, smells like a steak and seats thirty-five!
- Seats four 400 lb men.
- No, never. That would scream mass transit, or the B(us) word. Unacceptable. Think of all the unclean, dirty people with darker skin that I would be forced to look at unfairly.

I thought this was about the freaky little mankins, I was like "yeah they're freaky, but banned is a bit harsh" then I saw that the background was a modern truck grille, not a building.

Oof yeah ban both

Emotional support vehicles, lol

Gender Affirming
Pavement princesses. Will never haul a load heavier than some groceries, maybe a couple 2x4s, and the owner's fat ass.

But what would the people with their small self-esteem do then?

You misspelled penis.
- Beat me to it, dammit.

They really should be! They're like cockroaches here in Alberta...they're everywhere.

I know right, children are the worst

Well, I assume the idea is to see the children before they're that close....

That being said, from my small vehicle I could probably tell what shoes someone is wearing from the same distance that the driver of one of these monstrosities can barely tell their hair color.

I get why trucks exist, I just don't get why so many people drive them as their primary or only vehicle when they don't regularly haul anything more than groceries.

I get why trucks exist,
Those are hardly "trucks".
Well, I assume the idea is to see the children before they're that close....
It is, but that does not help you when you stop to talk with the neighbour and their child runs in front of your car while you don't see.
It should at least be mandatory to have a front & rear facing cameras and proximity sensors for cars like this.
EPA regulations on emissions, in relation to size, caused light trucks (and the SUVs based on them) to grow to the size you see. Ironically, the fuel efficient small pickup trucks and SUVs we grew up with in the 80s and 90s don't meet modern standards. I die a little inside every time I see one of the Nissan trucks, like the one I totaled. ;_;
- I'm holding on to my 21 year old 1st gen Colorado like my life depends on it. I'm so mad small pickups aren't a choice nowadays...
- That's bullshit. Most of the area behind the grill is empty space. Nothing to do with EPA ( which doesn't even exist any more).
  The truck makers need to justify the ridiculous profit margins on these 60s era technology vehicles, so they just made them taller, to the point people need steps to get into them. I'm sure someone is working on an escalator.
They have become prohibitively expensive to have as a secondary vehicle, if someone is in a position to need a truck occasionally, most people can't afford to have it as anything other than their daily driver.
- $200 a tank as a daily driver. "Why am I poor? Is it the Jews?".
- If you only need a truck occasionally, rent one.
  I don't understand the problem here.
  Also, these monstrosities are gas guzzlers, a smaller vehicle will be cheaper to run. Your argument lacks merit here.

You are up for surprised when you will know blindspot of low level sedan

Agreed, we shouldn’t be letting the goddamn ephemeral mannekinder block roadways.

Since I live in a place where driving is necessary (Texas), I drive a smaller electric car.

From my perspective, even small SUVs are far too big. If I'm behind them at a light, I can't see when the light changes.

I was recently surprised to learn that in other countries, they have popular versions of pickup trucks that are smaller than almost anything you can find here in the states.

Anybody who buys a vehicle that size in OP's picture would have to be a sociopath. They do not consider how other people are affected by their selfish actions.

The thought of what America would be like if kei trucks were popular...
From my perspective, even small SUVs are far too big. If I'm behind them at a light, I can't see when the light changes.
Have you tried stopping further back? Works with lorries too. Also means you have room to manoeuvre without reversing if the vehicle breaks down.
- Still think about some dashcam footage of an explosion on a highway. Some vehicles were able to make immediate U-turns.
  I may not be prepared for
  <normal highly likely thing>
  but I am always ready to make an immediate U-turn if a meteor strikes traffic way down the road 🤷‍♂️ 😬
- The general rule is that you should be able to see the rear tyres of the car in front. If you can't, you're too close.
- The only reason I need to see the light change is if the light is at an intersection with a lot of traffic so I can toot my horn at inattentive drivers more quickly.
  So, it's not particularly important, and often, those intersections need you to stay closer to the car in front of you, because especially in Texas, I think, probably 70-ish percent of drivers don't know how to use lanes correctly. They line up in one lane leaving a second lane almost empty. So you have to pull forward to give more people behind you the chance to change into a good lane.
  TLDR I want to see the light to help traffic move, but pulling forward can also help traffic move.

This is why they keep on growing...

But how will I advertise how insecure I am about my small wiener if I can't drive a monster with five gallons to the mile on diesel?

Don't worry, yours is legally a prosthesis which is protected under the ADA

btw when they blind me at night going 75 mph in the rocky mountains, i find it to be deadly too.

Why do our car manufacturers here even remotely think this is okay?

They don't concern themselves with whats okay, just with what's legal, and even then, not always. They do concern themselves with what's profitable, all the time. Quite frankly, I don't know why we allow that, except we lost control of the government to money because we don't actually participate in our own governance.
Simple: it's profitable. Which means it's not only okay, it's mandatory!
Because it's legal for them to kill us but illegal for us to kill them back.
They don't think it's okay, but neither do they care. They want money even if it means killing kids.

I always get nervous whenever i see one of these new GM pickups cuz they are just wayy too tall.

And you know the driver's not a bright spark.

The solution will never be ending the obvious problem, but rather replacing windshields with giant LCDs using front mounted cameras or something.

I was genuinely going to ask, if this thing has a front camera for driving into a parking bay. Even if you lean forward and stretch your neck, you'll hardly see the parking bay coming up...

I concur.

No more creepy mannequins.

They're nicer once they grow up;
https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2PMW9RW/palma-de-mallorca-spain-april-03-2023-main-facade-of-a-historic-red-building-with-mannequins-on-its-balconies-palma-de-mallorca-spain-2PMW9RW.jpg
yeah, I thought OP was struggling with some dark thoughts before I realized what sub it was.

THE NEW MAIBATSU MONSTROSITY

Why drive a small car? Are you a small person? The new SUV Maibatsu Monstrosity guzzles gas and is equipped for crossing Arctic tundra! Driving one will make you feel good!

I'm not alone in thinking of this every time I see a gigantic vehicle.
- https://youtu.be/MI7Tq6sRxE4 is what I think of

First time I sat in the passenger seat of one I was still shocked. it's even more frustrating that if you actually need to tow something heavy you have no option to avoid this outside an older truck. Some manufacturer should clue in and advertise a 3/4 ton as that won't make you kill the neighbor's kid. And I want sightlines, not cameras.

Doing groceries is a heavy duty task!

Gotta fill that truck bed with bulk-purchase Pringles.
There’s a sardonic chuckle from me every time I pass an SUV stopped at a red light in the bike lane…while carrying more groceries in my saddle bags than all of its combined cargo.
These bbq crates from Costco need to be mobed with a forklift

Right. Get those kids if from front my truck. I gotta go to Walmart to get a bag of cool ranch Doritos.

Did you have a stroke
- No. Why do you ask? I always drool like this. Wanna see my Trump branded drool rag?

WTF ? Now we have to deal with monstertrucks ?

Cars are dangerous enough. Deathbox has gotta go.

You have a point but the margins are like 30% more plus these dumb chucklefucks are willing to pay 67%apr over 9 years I think we can afford the odd child death

They don't even sell the Chevy Colorado where I live. Too small for the demographic here, who needs the biggest truck on the market with aftermarket lift kits.

Why does the front of the car needs to be that high? Does it serve any utility?

I think I've seen the source video on Donut Media, there a was funny moment with a rando on wheelchair and they used him as example

Plate does read "Donut". The plot thickens.

True

Yeah cars are bullshit. Yeah these vehicles are monstrosities that guzzle gas.

But, sedans are too low to the ground. As a tall person, I need something SUV-sized (regular SUV like a buick envoy) just to get out of. The whole world is designed around someone who is ~5'7". I am 6'3". Getting in and out of vehicles, off of low rise furniture, and reaching down to get stuff off if grocery store shelves is a ROYAL PAIN IN THE ASS!!!

I need a taller vehicle just to get out of. I basically have to crawl just to get in and out of an uber sedan.

*Edit: I wish there was viable mass transit here. I'd rather have convenient metro rail. Absent that, I want an electric SUV

Find you a nice 2000 s-10 xtreme

For what
- 40 or so trips to the compost and mulching facilities (it would be 15 if I had the longer bed but I also like being able to park so it's a trade off), about 1500 miles a year towing 8500lbs, usually at least 1 major house project (rebuilding deck this year, garden planters last year), and being the backup family vehicle if my schedule doesn't match up with the wife and kids needs.