One pretty big factor to these getting bought is due to safety and for that reason I feel like we as a society has prioritized driver safety that we have sacrificed pedestrian safety
I'd argue that it sacrifices the safety of any other car that's smaller than it too, with sudans being the most vulnerable. No way a bumper difference of feet allows for the smaller car's safety features to work as intended if not bypassed entirely.
I've seen big utes around the Australian suburb where I live and thought they were bad enough. These things seem to be on a whole other level
You've gotta compensate your penis size with your car. This is just basic science.
That truck is also raised. I drive a 'normal' size SUV and once drove past one of those raised trucks in a parking lot - its hood was as high as my roof.
Useful for carrying massive things every single day, completely useless for all other purposes.
I noticed that car owners never use their cars to their fullest potential. You have all this additional space just being permanently unused, which just worsens highway traffic. Not to mention all the additional pollution you're now responsible for because that big ass car is not an EV.
Just get a regular sized car if you don't wanna bother transporting 3 grand pianos to the same two places every single day. Oh wait, now you have to retune them too.
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