original post: https://feddit.org/post/10733288
Source: stux@mstdn.social
“This is why we don’t need #US #cars in #Europe”
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I’ll just ignore the Mercedes in the row behind who is parking in two spaces at once
#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.
If I were driving drunk regularly, I’d want to be in a tank like this, too.
Oh come on Netherlands, you’re better than this, simply declare these vehicles not road worthy as they are not road worthy. Just give owners 6 months to get rid of their dumpster trucks and then prohibit them on public roads and we’re done
Oh I wish.
There are many professionals driving a bit oversized vehicles, like small cargo trucks and large vans. But these people are smart enough to know they don’t fit in a standard parking spot.
Please tell my neighbour with his 4m99cm (barely legal) van/truck… if I’m parked front side first (charge port to my shed) and he parks opposite side of the lot I can’t even get out.
Or you can do what the idiots at Standards Australia proposed (no news yet on if they’re actually gonna do it).
https://www.standards.org.au/news/revised-standard-recommends-larger-parking-bays-across-the-country
Luckily practically all the feedback in the 3.5 weeks the gave for feedback (suspicious, much?) was “This is dumb, just make standards on maximum vehicle sizes better”
We are captured by the fossil fuel/car industry though, no doubt about it.
I hate that US style vehicles are becoming more popular here too. We gotta ban that shit ASAP.
Standards Australia is a mega rort. There are so many things that should change - such as making all standards viewable by the public to check for non compliance.
Totally agree with the feedback. Reduce and enforce maximum vehicle sizes or class the yank tanks as trucks.
The system is corrupted.
See obnoxiously bright headlights, horns which can startle people, etc.
It’s about to be ‘Dodge rammed in the Netherlands’
Rammed into the nearest canal.
“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 know we’re being hyperbolic here but hard disagree – how awful would that be for everyone on-board? And absolutely not worth the damage to public infrastructure. There’s an established procedure for dealing with blockages, and I hope that process irreparably damages the truck and results in a hefty fine for the owner
Not great for adjacent vehicles either
Yeah exactly. Even in jest I loathe this unquestioned impulse to punish the offender without any thought to collateral. This driver’s primary offense is being oblivious to their impact on others – what message is sent if the reaction is just as oblivious?
Okay I’m done policing morals.
I hope too. But because the news headline would be “Dodge Rammed”
Driver comes running over to move the car just in time… “Ram Dodged”
The Most Holy Ram Dodge
I hope the city seized the truck, auctioned it off, and fined the owner for littering.
In Estonia, at your second speeding violation they confiscate your vehicle - and if it’s an SUV they send it to Ukraine.
For backstory, see latest episode of the podcast The Urbanist Agenda.
This was a great episode, and was great to hear this way to use trucks…
Thank you for the podcast tip, I’d like to learn more about what you described!
Clarification: titled “Let’s Send our Pickup Trucks to Ukraine (with Build the Lanes)”
https://podcastaddict.com/the-urbanist-agenda/episode/196176727
Since, y’know… in a few weeks it won’t be the latest one anymore.
I heard this was if you get caught for drunk driving the second time, they stepped up their game damn.
You’re right, I meant drunk driving, not speeding.
But some countries take speeding pretty seriously too (as they should). In Norway you get a short jail spell for something like a 30kmh excess. In Switzerland the fines are adjusted for income so that rich speeders pay more - one guy paid over €1 million! Same system in Finland too, I believe.
Speeding and drink driving play a big part in traffic deaths and also the cost of fixing all the people who do survive is totally preventable so I am all for it. Progressive fines sound very fair too, misbehaving companies in some cases also pay a percentage of their profit so why not citizens as well.
My wealthy ex’s family would just pay the tickets, so he never learned.
I’d beg him not to go 40 in school zones.
Don’t you get deducted points for speeding? Like after a while wouldn’t he lose his license, regardless of how much he pays?
Could be that their wealth caused them not to care about fines, if they had to pay 5% of that wealth every time they would definity take it easy in school zones.
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)
I don’t think we necessarily need to melt down the owner…
Bro, read the room.
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.
They look just as stupid here in Germany
And the owner are almost exclusively Douchebags. One of those morons once ran me nearly over when I crossed the street in the middle of the city centre in a small tourist town. He even speed up to me, doing way more than the 30km/h speed limit there.
The other one I know was my neighbour who cheated on his wife, while she was with their baby on mother-child cure (It’s like a special Rehabilitation for Mother/Dad’s with small children where they can take a bit space from the troubles of daily life, and learn some resilience techniques, cooking healthy food, strengthening their body etc…)
While I generally agree with you, there are exceptions. The forest service here uses them, as well as the council gardening service. But they don’t park anywhere near the city, so that is not an issue.
They’re assholes in the US as well.
A PEDESTRIAN? USING MY STREET?! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I PAID FOR THIS TRUCK??!??!
V70 looks so tiny next to it.
the v70 has the same cargo bed capacity as a standard f150, too
To give people perspective, if you put the seats down in the back of the V70, you can sleep two lying down in the back, no problem.
That Ram is obscenely huge.
I’ve never seen a Ram in real life, but knowing the size of a V70 pretty well that thing is HUGE
Yikes I didn’t appreciate how big the Dodge was until you pointed out the Volvo.
Changed my perspective too. The volvo is already like a damn train
I wish I had your perspective. I’m so desensitized to grossly oversized vehicles in the states that the Volvo just seems like an average sized car to me. The road is just dominated by baby dick trucks and SUVs that would just monster truck my car
I wonder how similar in size that pos is to the tram it’s blocking?
Pedantic, but Dodge hasn’t made the Ram for over 15 years now. Ram trucks are their own brand.
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’ve said both in a single day. The look on the first guy’s face when the 99 others walked in was priceless.
there are 100 people inside me.
😳
Found Annabel Chong.
Extremely fucked up. Not the quantity of men (it would have probably been extremely painful a couple hours in though. and even more so if she took a break in between), but the fact that she wasn’t paid and wasn’t fairly informed about risks.
French has a nice neologism for this phenomenon: autobésité
baissed
Saw one in Prague. What the fuck would you need a pickup for in Prague. I actually own a pickup truck and this shit makes my blood boil
Why doesn’t the tram just go around… /s
