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[-] [email protected] 126 points 1 month ago

To be fair that truck is unsafe at any speed.

Even sitting in the parking lot people bash their legs on the tow hitch.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago

bash their legs on the tow hitch

I doubt that very much, see as it's practically at eye-level.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The height actually makes it worse cause they will often have a drop hitch to get low enough to meet the trailer, this tends to make it even less noticeable that there is a hitch at shin level.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Okay, maybe their arms

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

At the rate many pedestrians are locked into looking down at their phones, eye level obstructions are maybe more dangerous.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, it is a Dodge so it is likely broken down and needs an engine or transmission, or both.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I can hear the 'Hemi tick' all the way from Australia.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

unsafe at any speed

Found the Nader!

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[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago

The electric bicycle doesn't require a license to use. Supposedly you have been properly trained in the operation of a vehicle and are licensed to use it before getting behind the wheel. Supposedly. In reality the DMV hands licenses out like Halloween candy.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

I've got a license to drive heavy-weight vehicles, I should be allowed to ride my ebike at 90km/h, pretty please?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Get a scooter or motorcycle then? You absolutely should be able to drive a high speed 2 wheeled vehicle if you have the training and one safe to travel that speed.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

The arguments made for bicycles being speed limited make sense, because it's not just about licensing requirements (what precious few there are...) but also mechanical limits on safe operation and a need to find a balance between individual freedom and public safety.

This is also the reason why, in Europe at least, all trucks have a 90 km/h governor by law, even though truck drivers are licensed to a higher standard than car drivers.

Cars being excluded from the conversations we are having about trucks and bicycles and motorcycles is nothing but pure hypocrisy. But then again, when has hypocrisy ever stopped a politician?

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

I'd say the speed limits on ebikes are primarily there for the safety of the operator, not others. Pretty much all cars nowadays have similar electronic limits.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

For instance my wrangler is limited to about 80 through the engineering of a low power engine and the wind resistance of a cardboard box.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

The limiter on an ebike also protects the 14 year old kid riding it from going too fast. If it didn't have limits then it'd be an electric motorbike that would need licencing, insurance, roadworthiness etc.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

OK but I'm not 14 nor are most of the people riding electric bikes. You can voluntarily put a limiter on it if your kid is riding it.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What does the 14yo have to do with licensing, insurance and roadworthiness?

It's totally possible to put age restrictions on activities without requireing licensing, insurance or anything else. You don't need a license or insurance to drink, for example.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Which one of these vehicles expects to be operated in pedestrian spaces?

I don't know why this is so hard. Cars should also have speed limiters, and the reason they don't is bullshit tradition. As we invent the next paradigm in personal transportation we shouldn't be making the same mistakes. I really can't imagine how anyone could disagree with this unless they are acting in bad faith.

The existence of ebikes doesn't depreciate the existence of motorcycles or mopeds. If you want a motorcycle or moped then get one, but don't pretend it's ok to ride it on bike paths.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

Cars operate in pedestrian spaces all the time.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

I actually think the point of this lifted truck is to kill pedestrians; a lot of people LARP running people over and getting away with no consequences.

They also usually own firearms.

So should you (and know firearms safety)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

They also usually own firearms.

So should you (and know firearms safety)

This guy gets it.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Plus one of them doesn't blow exhaust into the face of the rider on the other one. I know I'd take the one that doesn't have exhaust.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

For those of you in countries that care about people and push pedestrian safety in vehicle design: take a close look at that front bumper if you haven't.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Ebikes typically have a speed limiter. That brodozer doesn't because they modded it.

However, some go fuck-all by rolling their own ebikes for higher speeds to get around license restrictions normally needed for a motorcycle.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Both? Almost all cars have speed limiters because the tires they ship with arent rated for higher speeds.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

A truck like that probably only can do 100mph maybe 120mph. A governor wouldn’t kick in until like 150mph. Most of the cars I have seen where it matters have a “track mode” to turn it off anyway.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The speed limit seems to be 105 according to google. Speed limiter removed looks like about 120? It may be a a brick, but 300 HP is still 300HP. As long as it's got reasonable gearing it should easily exceed 100mph. With half the power (and cylinders) my Outback can do faster than that, and it ain't exactly aerodynamic.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Fuck cars, but also fuck idiots on unlicensed 40mph Temu deathtraps.

Want to go Bertie Big Bollocks fast, grow some leg muscles.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Tbf, an idiot in a 40mph temu deathtrap crashing against you would still do roughly half the damage of one of those trucks crashing against you at 10mph. But yeah, I hate them too.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I'm for options. Where I live there is no option. You must drive. The busses come once and hour and go nowhere useful itnseems. There are few sidewalks and fewer bike lanes. Even if you wanted to ride a bike there's strides everywhere making it dangerous AF.

I want the option to drive, or walk, or ride a bike, or take a bus.

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