Gonna be great seeing Cybertrucks mow through pedestrians with their ridiculous blind spots and sharp stainless steel corners all over.
Honestly the thing is starting to remind me of the homer car, what a fucking joke
The Homer Simpson car, while it has its faults, is unironically better than everything in the SUV market.
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Sure it’s got the pop up logo triangle, but the front is still overall better.
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Great viability, check out that dome. The design choices naturally focus the server outside the car rather than on instruments.
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Back seats also have a big dome to look out and realise there is a world outside the car, it’s not just an iPad screen to fast-travel. Again, the focus is on what’s outside the vehicle, not in it.
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On screens, there in not a single screen in that car.
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Low-loading height, height clearance, deep truck. Probably more on par with a van than an SUV.
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Low laying headlamps with standard incandescent bulbs, nothing that can temporarily blind people.
Sure it has rear-view viability issues, and the horn (and multitude of horn buttons) is problematic. But the Homer Simpson car is a good people and stuff mover. Could probably do without the shag carpeting though.
HAHA I stand corrected. Musk wishes he had the Tesla Homer.
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Reminded me of this video by Not Just Bike.
These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us [35:26 | Mar 6, 2023 | Not Just Bikes] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
They got rid of pop up headlights but allow this bullshit.
I’d rather get hit by a NA Miata than a modern Ford F150
They don’t want us to have cool cars anymore. Just ugly, oversized cruise ships that steal our data and try to drive themselves.
That’s right! Court ruling this week said data theft by car companies is super duper.
Vehicles
with higher, more vertical front endsposegreaterrisk to pedestriansI think that’s more accurate. Vehicles big, small, tall, short, electric, or gas powered… makes no difference. There’s no greater risk to pedestrians than multi-ton moving vehicles.
EDIT: Guys, I didn’t mean one size car vs another doesn’t make a difference to the safety risk of pedestrians. It absolutely does. I mean that vehicles around pedestrians are a risk to pedestrians, regardless. This is #fuckcars, right? Stop all the down voting.
I get where you’re coming from, but without context your point comes across as more of a “all cars are dangerous therefore we shouldn’t bother regulating oversized SUVs” rather than the “Yes SUVs are particularly dangerous but let’s keep in mind that all cars are dangerous” that you were aiming for.
“all cars are dangerous therefore we shouldn’t bother regulating oversized SUVs” rather than the “Yes SUVs are particularly dangerous but let’s keep in mind that all cars are dangerous” that you were aiming for.
Oh, geeze. Yeah, I really didn’t intend for it to sound like the first part. I 1000% believe that larger vehicles NEED to be regulated, like yesterday.
It makes a huge fucking difference.
A train fits that statement too. So do planes. And boats.
Big thing move fast hurt when hit. Thats not whats being discussed, tho, cause we all inherently understand physics.
A train fits that statement too. So do planes. And boats.
Trains run on tracks, and you can’t get hit by one unless you put yourself on those tracks.
I’m not aware of pedestrians and cyclists getting hit by planes. I’d be interested to hear about this trend.
Boats aren’t typically found on city streets, and pedestrian fatalities involving boats is how common?
City and suburban streets should have fewer cars on it, not more. These are pedestrian areas, and perhaps we can learn a thing or two about how to actually prevent pedestrian fatalities by looking at European city planning and design.
