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EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives as US pick-up trucks flood into Europe (www.transportenvironment.org)

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[-] kautau@lemmy.world 53 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

As someone from the US, they're mostly not appropriate here either. They rarely get used for anything except driving to/from work. They are more like massive uneconomical vans with four luxury seats rather than work trucks (again, when they nearly always have a driver and no passengers).

That being said, my fiancé lives in the Philippines (Specifically in Manila, the most densely populated city on the planet), and every time I visit it's clear the same stupid oversized trucks are everywhere and I doubt anywhere in the EU will be different.

Just like requiring seatbelts to be a rule, you need to put rules in place so the idiots don't destroy everything, that's pretty much advanced modern society.

[-] stormeuh@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago

Yeah there are a fuckton of "real men" in Europe, influenced by the firehose of toxic culture coming from the US. I agree 100%, governments need to prevent selfish idiots from endangering others with their bad choices.

[-] CPMSP@midwest.social 5 points 17 hours ago

Pavement princesses.

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