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The average American automobile now weighs over 2 tonnes and takes up almost 5 square meters of space. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I work in a hospital and park in a big parking garage. You'll see brand new trucks with like 3 different back up cams take up 2 spaces because they still can't park. Lady, you are a tiny nurse and I can tell you've never towed anything or need to haul around shit in your tiny truck bed. Why have a truck in the first place?

I actually regularly move large shit around town...... I still don't have a giant truck. We just have a small trailer that we tow with my wife's Nissan Altima. Unless you actually have to tow a boat around or something modern trucks are fairly useless, they all have tiny beds nowadays.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Lady, you are a tiny nurse and I can tell you’ve never towed anything or need to haul around shit in your tiny truck bed.

    So this is universal. My hospital parking lot was built in the mid 70s and we used to have a small section for "oversized vehicles", now tiny nurses in massive trucks have taken over. They think they are safer, but in Canada, they are fucking dangerous in snow and ice.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    I currently live in the south where it only really ices over like once every two or three years. Every time it happens there are giant trucks who think that they can drive as crazy as they usually do because their truck is 4x4.

    Like yeah..... You're less likely to get stuck, but it doesn't help you stop at all. It makes every intersection look like a demolition derby. I usually just call in on those days.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    yeah I have a minivan and there was this time my father in law needed to move a fridge that would not fit in his truck without the gate down and his sons suv with the hatch closed. fit in the minivan though and with better gas mileage.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yeah, minivans are underrated. I would get a minivan or a Econoline van before I would buy one of the new trucks. It'd be a hell of a lot cheaper anyways. I can't believe how much money people are spending on trucks, half of them are like 1/4 - 1/3 of the cost of a decent home.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'll never understand why minivans became so uncool when SUVs were able to rise. Now you could make the argument of the soccer mom and mom stereotype of the minivan making it deeply uncool to people who didn't just want to be known as parents. But then that same stereotype is tied to SUVs.

    Many van seat people way more comfortably. The sliding door makes getting into the back seat way more practical. The visibility from out the windows is nice. And on the ones where you can either take out or fully stow the seats, you essentially have the capacity of a truck. They aren't the ideal solution for everyone's lifestyle, but like, if you need a big vehicle to haul the kids around and to, you know, bring stuff back from the store that are big, well, a minivan will do the job better.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    They need a truck to cosplay as a rugged individualistic person.

    Though it makes no sense how they are rugged or individualistic when they are driving a mass produced truck made by a large corporation bailed out by the government several times in the last few decades.

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