US-styled large trucks linked to a higher risk of pedestrian deaths, Australian study finds

Charge rego by the kilo, or by road surface area. It's crazy that they cost the same to put on the road as a 900kg hatch.

I was going to say just put a stupid-tax on them, but I guess Trump has kinda done that with the price of diesel.

And of course, LR will require a BAC of 0.00.

That will discourage certain people from buying them if they don’t need it.

The line has to be drawn somewhere.

Regular punters need to be able to hire a light truck on a regular licence, in case they need to move something bulky. Light trucks need to be crew-cabs so that a team of four can be transported to the job site, with all their tools. And you can’t legislate on the styling of a vehicle.

If I had my way, the laws would be changed to mandate forward visibility, without reliance on ADAS. This would close the loophole, but overcab light trucks would still be legal; Mitsubishi Canters, Isuzu N-Series and Hino 300-series all provide great visibility.

and people from the usa

Yeah. They need to lower, and set a lower physical length limit. At my local IGA the other day, there were a total of 4 large utes using 11 spots. The drivers are the laziest drivers on the planet.

They drive them like shit, they park like shit, and then use the size of their car as an excuse to drive like an unsupervised 12 year old who has never driven a car before.

Even worse, you never see them actually towing anything, and there is only a single dirty Dodge RAM out there (we actually did see one once, and the whole car pointed it out). You'll never see courier drivers with them, and the people you do see with them, are always the exact people you expect

Drop the threshold to 4

The Importer de-rated their carrying capacity to keep them under the limit for what can be driven on a car licence.

is speed limited to 100km.

and also would require the driver to not exceed 0.00 BAC.

I wonder how the instant asset write off dropping to $20,000 (down from $150,000 in previous years!?!) has affected the sales of these vehicles.

That's not even close to being true - a RAM 1500 is 2620kg. Still really heavy, but not close to the cut off

These insane sized grills/front ends look great in the driveway

No, they really don't

These insane sized grills/front ends look great in the driveway

News to me, I think they look like giant look at me signs that say I have a tiny pecker and/or extreme insecurity in my person. They're a red flag, and anybody who has one i try to avoid.

Same here in Australia, at least with the ford rangers, and toyota hilux's. They became the most popular cars in Australia, even though the majority of Australians live in cities. The drivers love to tailgate. No doubt they are slowly being replaced with these even stupider, and larger utes. Chances are most of them will also be road coloured too.

Unfortunately the phenomenon is not limited to Canada. I think statesia accidentally'd your Alberta or something.

if everyone with lots of money could go out and buy a subaru uncharted now, so i can pick one up in a few years 2nd hand to replace my XV... that would be kinda perfect.

Instead, they should be driven at a better standard

100% this. If I drove one of those things I'd park it perfectly every time just to avoid the shame.

Yep. I don't even need to tow. I just want a BEV with enough range, with good clearance. The Trailseeker is the only one that has what I need.

I want a BEV jimny basically. Not a shark 6.

My fave was the one i saw awkwardly trying to back out of the entrance to the warrigal rd carwash because they told him to fuck off they weren't running it. Dunno what the dude thought that car would give him but i doubt was a queue of subi drivers pointing and laughing

Put an exclamation mark in front of it, with the "handle" of the community rather than the display name.

!fuckcars@lemmy.world

"Dared to have fun" ???

ITS A FUCKING CAR ON A ROAD, NOT A RIDE

None of those things forced bogans to buy over-compensation deep fried yank tanks.

@Tau @okwithmydecay
Sorry, your idea of fun kills too many people.

You're a lot of what's wrong with modern societies. In not saying this as an insult either. You're outdated and like many of your like-minded brethren you drag us all down.

You are getting things backwards.

The reason trucks are popular is because they are more profitable to capitalists selling them compared to regular cars.

So, naturally, capitalists poured a whole bunch of money into propaganda to make the SUV/truck a "cultural staple" and a gender-affirming purchase for men. Feeding on the worst, most individualistic and toxic aspects of our society to make even more profit selling murder machines.

If the "anti-car" people you blame for this actually had any influence, there would be a reasonable compromise of requiring a commercial driver's license to operate these monstrosities.

Or, if we really had our way, there would not be any cars in densely populated areas at all.

Do you live your entire life in reaction to other people? It sounds exhausting.