As with everything in America

Excuse me, excuse me, but this is a clearly unscripted random interaction with a fellow probably human.

…yeah, it soured me on the rest as well, although it sounds like the idea itself is good. heh

Only Billy Eichner is allowed to do that

https://youtu.be/QwL_pRzJuR4

I thought it was fun.

It sounds like it's something they can only require them on vehicles whose companies have contracts with the city. If true, I'd assume that the exempted trucks aren't hauling away city waste - maybe construction debris or something like that.

why were people given religious covid exemptions

there's no liveleak anymore. Literally tried it yesterday D:

Makes sense. Dead people don't have tights, right? /s

Well I mean I'm guessing he's part of a union and needs to sell his soul a little bit to the, "one for all," spirit. I'm hoping when he's at home away from the union, he's more for the safety of all individuals than just the company he works for.

It is in EU, and in UK, and in Japan.

It's only third world nations, such as USA, that have such shoddy safety standards as this

EU has a lot of fragmented (by country) road laws.

But guards/skirts are usually integrated into the design, not third-party add-ons.

Random examples:

I've never seen guards like this either, but more importantly I've never seen the large gaps in the side that guides victims to fall beneath multiple wheels.

I suspect all the trucks I've seen in Europe left the factory compliant with the regulation, with no need to install side guards.

I opened Google Street View and "drove" along Mannerheimintie. Here are images of all trucks I found along the "drive":

...and then I figured I'd try some rednecky place, and the most redneck place I could pick from my hat was Kauhava (sorry, everyone in Kauhava). I figure that if in some place they drive trucks with illegal modifications, then that's there.

So, I went for truck hunt there as well, which turned out to be much more difficult than I thought! Anyway, here:

I am not able to find a truck in Finland that does not have those protecting devices installed. And I don't think I have ever seen one.

I mean, yeah. A lot of innovations in safety is really just stupidly simple things that we learned the hard way (someone being hurt).

The stupid part however isn't how simple these things are, but rather how hard it is to get through even the most basic changes.

A stone wheel is "technology".

Cringe ass safety psa

What product or service was it trying to sell to its audience?

Trucks will always be needed. Trains can't go everywhere.

Also, the passenger-train utopia we both want would require lighter-duty high-speed rail, which freight trains wouldn't be able to operate on

In both of the examples, the cyclists appeared to be aware of the truck and paying attention. The trucks did not pay attention to them.

These would not used instead of bicycle awareness, but would work in tandem with it.