original post: https://feddit.org/post/10733288
Source: stux@mstdn.social
"This is why we don't need #US #cars in #Europe"
“This is why we don’t need #US #cars in #Europe”
We don't need this shit in the US, either. I hope that tram just rammed the fucker.
I hope the city seized the truck, auctioned it off, and fined the owner for littering.
More like melted it down for scrap
and turned it into a new tram (because it's almost the same size as the fkn tram)
Someone in my city did this. Their car blocked the tram. The tram company ordered taxis for all passengers, and the car owner had to foot the bill.
They could just take the brightline approach for dealing with vehicles on the track.
@conditional_soup @shadowtofu
Would that mean that since the tram has the right of way on the tracks it can simply push the offending driver's property off the tracks and any damage is legally the fault of the idiot driver?
Not only that, but Brightline helpfully disassembles the offending vehicle so that any parts that are damaged in the move can easily be identified along the debris field.
These cars should be banned in Europe. If your car doesn't fit into a parking spot, it's too big.
They don't even fit in the parking spaces in the United States. I don't know how many times I've had to sit in the parking lot for 10 minutes waiting for some dipshit to figure out how to maneuver his monster vehicle into or out of a space.
Guess it depends on how you live. I'm over here like "how do you have spots that don't fit trucks? Every other car on the road is that size"
Context, I live in Texas.
Also also, I've been to the Netherlands and those spots in towns are tight fits for a normal car. Even a large full size German sedan probably wouldn't fit. But that's fine because almost everyone parks outside of town and uses public transportation or walks or bikes. You basically can't drive around in town. This truck driver is just an idiot.
Not so sure about that, given that I'm pretty sure there's a full sized Mercedes in the back row, and what to me looks like a Volvo in the middle slot, facing the camera.
Fuck that. Those cars should be banned here in america.
How else are they gonna haul their 3 bags of groceries AND own the libs?
Owners of such cars should be required to take extra training about where they can operate them, restricting them like large commercial vehicles (which these try to be)
Let them have them; don't let them drive them in tight urban areas, don't let them park in parking places that can't fit them
Australia is much like America with places designed for motor vehicles. So American light trucks fit here, but many of our carparks do not allow vehicles longer than 5m to enter
#1 vehicle for drivers being under the influence of alcohol.
Alcohol would explain why someone would purchase the fuck off monstrosity that is the ram. Renting a truck is a better option 99% of the time.
This is 100% illegal, even if there was no tram rails. City would ~~toe~~ tow this car if they were quick enough to respond too.
This looks like a show down.
Tram be like:
"You're big because the single person inside you is insecure.
I'm big because there are 100 people inside me.
We are not the same."
I don't even drive a big vehicle, but I know that I would be mortified if I drove somewhere only to realize that my vehicle is like 2x the size of every other vehicle around me, and I cannot fit into any parking spot.
How do these people live with themselves? I would get out of the truck, take a look at how far I'm blocking the road, and then just drive away and never come back.
Here's an answer to your question in joke form.
How does a ~~deva~~ diva change a lightbulb?
She holds the bulb and waits for the world to revolve around her.
Even setting aside that it's so unnecessarily huge, imagine having the utter contempt for others and self-importance necessary to park up on tram lines like that.
That will be expensive.
And dumb, how can you not see the tracks?
Just like how they can't see kids when they're peeling off their driveway.
I worked the ER for a smaller hospital in the past and one evening I was called in because a father had ran over his own son with one of those pickups. The kid ran out to greet him but the father couldn't see his own kid because the lifted pickup's hood was too high.
I sincerely hate those wanktanks with all my heart and soul
Dodge Ram. Making bank off insecurity
There is something poetic about this image and how the USA "fits" in with the rest of the world.
American cars are the way they are because if you make them big enough, you can classify them as a truck. Trucks, because of old regulations aimed at farmers, have lower safety standards. The automakers thus don't have to spend as much on development and can make bank off of idiots that feel safer in their death traps just because they can see over the sedans.
Trucks, because of old regulations aimed at farmers, have lower safety standards.
More importantly, they have lower standards for emissions and efficiency.
So the manufacturers would have to spend more on research and development, then build smaller cars which sell for less and fewer people buy – or they can go the other way, build bigger cars that are cheaper to make for more money to more people.
The real issue here is badly written regulations due to lobbying.
In Germany for example, a vehicle classified as "light truck" can't have a back seat.
Which is fine for farmers and craftsmen, but not for the majority of private citizens.
And for commercial trucks above 3.5 tons, you need a different driver's license.
So what will the authorities in the Netherlands do in this situation? Put a ticket on it and then wait for the owner to move it? Tow it to an impound lot? Flip it and light it on fire?
Whatever size the vehicle, you can't block the tracks...
EDIT: I've been in this situation in streetcars in San Francisco and New Orleans. No emergency vehicles came, no super tow truck...the streetcar just waited and blocked traffic until the driver came back and moved their vehicle. I don't know what would have happened if the driver never came back, but nothing happened in the 20-30 minutes we waited.
Tow it and charge the owner for getting it back.
In my country they tow tram track blockers immediately. I think it's some sort of 'emergency' towing too (arrives faster and is more expensive). If it takes too long, they temporarily replace the tram line with a bus. I imagine it's the same in many places.
Canadian here - they’re useless here too. Saw a guy the other day who couldn’t even put some 2x4s in his box because it was to short due to having full size back seats. He had them poking through the window into the cab 😂
I see someone parked their emotional support truck in the normal car parking spot.
We don't need US cars like that one in the US!
And the orange man doesn't understand why Europeans don't want to buy American cars. :\
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