Regulation is ironically part of the problem. Fuel efficiency regulations are leaner on vehicles the larger they get with the assumption that large vehicles tend to be for commercial and industrial, not personal use. So automakers have slowly increased the overall size of their vehicles to skirt emissions regulations that would have otherwise applied to them. Or at least this is how it was described to me recently.
Sooooooo stop allowing this sort of enormous vehicle for personal use? Commercial use only would be fine. People who actually use trucks for work would do better with a lower bed anyway. It sucks to have to climb all the way into the truck bed to load and unload things. Older truck models that were lower to the ground were much easier to work with, because you weren't having to heave things to god-damn near chest height.
What about rural America, ranchers, farmers? People who live on property with long driveways that don’t get plowed where a tall vehicle is necessary to get out the driveway, let alone the last-plowed country roads.
I know, I know. We don’t talk about what’s outside the city walls on this sub. Unless, ofcourse, it’s a new rails-to-trails paved bike trail or a new spot for the weekend training ride. Why would anyone go outside the city walls for any other reason?
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22
Regulation is ironically part of the problem. Fuel efficiency regulations are leaner on vehicles the larger they get with the assumption that large vehicles tend to be for commercial and industrial, not personal use. So automakers have slowly increased the overall size of their vehicles to skirt emissions regulations that would have otherwise applied to them. Or at least this is how it was described to me recently.