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      And I can’t legally drive my kids around in one of those, so yeah it’s like they are different trucks for different purposes or something…. I don’t know…. Maybe…?

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        In my opinion, it should be illegal to drive any vehicle so tall you can’t see kids in front of you anywhere near a school zone. Unless it’s a fire truck or other service vehicle, for obvious reasons.

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          It’s funny, kids aren’t getting run down in school zones in other places, we don’t let them run indiscriminately across the road. They’re taught to walk to a a crosswalk to cross the road.

          In fact, lots of places ban school buses using flashing red lights inside urban areas since it’s more dangerous, it’s only allowed on rural roads.

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            …we don’t let them run indiscriminately across the road. They’re taught to walk to a a crosswalk to cross the road.

            Really? You’re actually going to defend this classist, corporate-astroturfing bullshit, the theft of the public street away from the People for the exclusive benefit of irresponsible drivers?

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              Yeah and oddly enough this isn’t a problem where jaywalking is legal like the EU, so what point do you think that’s making here….?

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              Yeah the amount of people who think the problem exists outside the US is astonishing.

              Flashing red lights in urban areas is dangerous since people don’t follow the rules and it provides a false sense of security to the kids.

              They’re literally lining the kids up and know people don’t follow the rules, it’s silly they haven’t thought to adjust the laws yet. Places in Canada did, decades ago.

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          I fucking hate what’s happened to hood shape on modern pickups. You mention firetrucks, but most of those that I’ve seen are cabover and have great visibility.

          Just give me an 80’s square body shape and ride height with a modern drive train.

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          Because the modern truck has crash safety in mind due to crumple zones and other shit. I bet if a small truck were to be redesigned today with modern collision technology it would be just as safe as the truck without being multiple tons heavy to the point you nearly need a cdl license to drive a behemoth

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              Motorcycles are far less safe and far less utilitarian, but still legal and ubiquitous.

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                    There’s a push for both? What are you talking about?

                    One’s just more of a priority since the vehicles are more dangerous for pedestrians as well, they’ll both get there if people have their way, you’re naive of out think otherwise.

                    Both are insanely dangerous for the driver, one is for pedestrians, one they’ll deal with first, than move on more judiciously to the next.

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            Huh, both are dead from the videos I just watched. Any particular source I should be looking at?

            It’s funny that pedestrians aren’t being hit at the same rates as in the US, so it’s like it’s not actually a concern since it doesn’t happen enough…?

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          So are motorcycles. Maybe we should have a special license requirement for them, just like motorcycles.

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      But nowhere near the same driver comfort, crash test rating, towing capacity, top speed, tongue weight, or max load weight. Bed length alone is a poor measurement for a truck’s usefulness.

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      Obviously not the same width or depth though. I think truck culture is dumb, but spreading obviously misleading memes isn’t going to help with that.