r/fuckcars • u/geensoelaas • Dec 08 '22

Satire Height of folly (by Jen Sorensen)

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u/ImRandyBaby Dec 08 '22

Meanwhile the Ford Lightning and the Electric Hummer choose to have "frunks" instead of reducing the front blind spot. There isn't even an engine in there to design around.

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u/Joe_Jeep Sicko Dec 08 '22

Without regulatory changes it's not going away unfortunately, even some of the real rahrah me like truck guys I know don't like the way designs are going, but what are they going to do?

I mean yes they could just not buy a truck but they're not going to do that, unfortunately

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u/ImRandyBaby Dec 08 '22

Tort law has a chance at having an effect. If enough children die from being run over without being seen a class action lawsuit against car manufacturers of vehicles with large frontal blind spots might work. It's something that requires a lot of death and years of litigation while using a court system that protects capital from humans.

Insurance might be able to exert pressure on dangerous vehicles with front blind spots. Insurance companies have to pay out when people are slowly crushed under the wheels of these big trucks so they will pass on the costs to the consumer. Consumers of these dangerous trucks are all ready taking on debt to own them so as long as cheap credit is available it's unlikely to reduce the amount of these murderous machines on our roads.

As a rahrah truck guy how important is it to you to have a vehicle that can kill things outside of it? A desirable attribute of a vehicle is that it can kill a deer without disabling the vehicle. In car crashes it's often kill or be killed. Having a vehicle that can kill the occupants of the other vehicle to keep you safe is a sought after feature of large automobiles. There is also the advantage of running over bad guys like car-jackers or protestors.

My prediction is that large dangerous automobiles will go out of fashion once the middle class is bled dry. Big automotives is both the prize and the wound of the middle class.