Doubly so if they're a toddler.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to protest at an abortion clinic because killing children is immoral when a woman does it.

This sentence now verb. But yes! More drivers licences to the blind.

Sadly this is spreading everywhere. It's a race to the bottom because no one's adult enough to step in.

I don't get it who needs this car. I drove suzuki swift for 3 years and it was plenty of space gor 2 people and I'm 1.9m tall even. I don't even understand how people enjoy these giant cars - it's so uncomfortable, you can't even u-turn. And parking?

You don't even get the niceness of high seat because hoods are so giant. You take a van or something and at least you sit high with good visibility but thats not what people buy.

Truly weird.

It's just such a fucking constant thing everywhere online, anything about America is just written like it's a worldwide thing because most Americans need to be told that the rest of the world exists for their broken brains to remember that.
It's so fucking tiring just seeing the never ending "here's a thing" that's very specifically about the US but posted everywhere and never titled or talked about like it's a US specific thing.
It's not just titles either, it's the articles those posts link to, the videos, the everything all the way that not a single person thought "oh, this is US specific and should probably be shared as such".

But the f150 is much more gender affirming to cismasc people, you misandrist cisphpbic piece of shit.

Instead of headlights 2 feet off the ground, now we have overpowered searchlights (brighter = safer, amirite?) mounted 4 feet high, guaranteed to blind pedestrians and any shorter vehicle's driver.

including this...

Or worse, motorcycle!

-seethes with rage at the very notion of vehicles with less than four wheels-

And those who actually need them would be far better served by a VW Transporter with an aluminium bed.

And out of the people who do need them, vans are still a much better way to go for many of them. Vans which have at least a margainally better field of view with their short, sloped hoods.

Tell that to every dipshit in the US South...light kit, brush guard, spray in liner, knotted tires, extra fancy box in the back, and a pristine winch. The dirtiest it's ever gotten is when it rains

BUT I HAVE TA TOW MAH BOAT.

The problem is, most people can only afford one vehicle (per adult, sometimes household) as such, they shop for something that will meet their edge cases and not their “90% of the times” cars. Annoyingly is also why you see hesitation for EVs.

Rather than saying “I can just rent a truck for the 1 day a year I need haul something” (and most likely would be cheaper), they think “well what if I need to haul something? Then what?”

Not saying that’s right, but edge cases are usually what drives their decisions.

1 out of a 1000? Don't be silly, way more people than that have inferiority complex.

They’re easy enough to rent if you need one.

One of the guys in my police academy class would rib me for being less of a man because I didn't drive a truck.

A couple months later, he would go on to commit a felony on duty in front of a half dozen of his peers, including me. Nobody bothered to report him but me, even after we had a meeting about someone from a neighboring agency doing nearly the exact same thing that had been fired and arrested for it. Being a brand new deputy, I thought it was an integrity test so I was more than willing to report it. IA dropped the case.

In hindsight, that was a clue I should've started applying elsewhere or quit, but I had three more years to put in before I wouldn't have to pay back my academy pay, not to mention I naively trusted there was some other interpretation of what happened I hadn't considered that the agency's brass and legal team had; I wasn't about to be the Apprentice telling the Master he's full of shit.

Years later they'd fire me for some complete BS. He still works there as far as I know, and the US Army promoted him to Captain.

Ban individual owned large vehicles. Force them to be licensed under a business, or force a rental agreement with extra tax and duration limits.

it isn't about need. it's about want.

no doubt you own many things other people don't think you need, but you think you do.

I don't think that we see the same increase in pedestrian fatalities in other countries though, which do have smart phones but do not have massive personal trucks.

Why not both?

If phones are causing more collisions... then bigger vehicles have more kinetic energy, hence more deaths...

The instant messengers on the smart phones might have played a critical role. Whatsapp started in 2009.
Texting and driving is a thing, so there's a way to derive causation and not only correlation from that.
...it triggers a certain kind of rage/hate in me when I spot people texting and driving, which I usually do several times each day.