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"This is why we don't need #US #cars in #Europe"

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[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 291 points 1 month ago

“This is why we don’t need #US #cars in #Europe”

We don't need this shit in the US, either. I hope that tram just rammed the fucker.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 174 points 1 month ago

I hope the city seized the truck, auctioned it off, and fined the owner for littering.

[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In Estonia, at your second ~~speeding~~ drunk-driving violation they confiscate your vehicle - and if it's an SUV they send it to Ukraine.

For backstory, see latest episode of the podcast The Urbanist Agenda.

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[-] Liz@midwest.social 39 points 1 month ago

More like melted it down for scrap

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 month ago

and turned it into a new tram (because it's almost the same size as the fkn tram)

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[-] shadowtofu@discuss.tchncs.de 269 points 1 month ago

Someone in my city did this. Their car blocked the tram. The tram company ordered taxis for all passengers, and the car owner had to foot the bill.

[-] rabber@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 month ago

Did the offender actually pay the bill? Did the tram company have to sue to get the money? Do you have a news article?

[-] The_Caretaker@urbanists.social 79 points 1 month ago

@rabber @shadowtofu
Tram company makes money by moving people. When the tram line stops moving, they lose money by the minute. 1000 Euros per minute plus the standard fee for a parking ticket seems fair. That should make the driver pay attention in the future.

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[-] atro_city@fedia.io 180 points 1 month ago

These cars should be banned in Europe. If your car doesn't fit into a parking spot, it's too big.

[-] Oyml77@lemmy.world 91 points 1 month ago

They don't even fit in the parking spaces in the United States. I don't know how many times I've had to sit in the parking lot for 10 minutes waiting for some dipshit to figure out how to maneuver his monster vehicle into or out of a space.

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[-] singletona@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago

Fuck that. Those cars should be banned here in america.

[-] the_q@lemm.ee 41 points 1 month ago

How else are they gonna haul their 3 bags of groceries AND own the libs?

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[-] psud@aussie.zone 43 points 1 month ago

Owners of such cars should be required to take extra training about where they can operate them, restricting them like large commercial vehicles (which these try to be)

Let them have them; don't let them drive them in tight urban areas, don't let them park in parking places that can't fit them

Australia is much like America with places designed for motor vehicles. So American light trucks fit here, but many of our carparks do not allow vehicles longer than 5m to enter

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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 112 points 1 month ago

Oh come on Netherlands, you're better than this, simply declare these vehicles not road worthy as they are not road worthy. Just give owners 6 months to get rid of their dumpster trucks and then prohibit them on public roads and we're done

[-] breakingcups@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago
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[-] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 94 points 1 month ago

#1 vehicle for drivers being under the influence of alcohol.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 month ago

Alcohol would explain why someone would purchase the fuck off monstrosity that is the ram. Renting a truck is a better option 99% of the time.

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[-] huppakee@lemm.ee 92 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is 100% illegal, even if there was no tram rails. City would ~~toe~~ tow this car if they were quick enough to respond too.

[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago

They might even give it the whole foot

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[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 80 points 1 month ago

This looks like a show down.

Tram be like:

"You're big because the single person inside you is insecure.

I'm big because there are 100 people inside me.

We are not the same."

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 month ago

there are 100 people inside me.

😳

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[-] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 72 points 1 month ago

Train can't dodge, but it can ram...

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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't even drive a big vehicle, but I know that I would be mortified if I drove somewhere only to realize that my vehicle is like 2x the size of every other vehicle around me, and I cannot fit into any parking spot.

How do these people live with themselves? I would get out of the truck, take a look at how far I'm blocking the road, and then just drive away and never come back.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Here's an answer to your question in joke form.

How does a ~~deva~~ diva change a lightbulb?

She holds the bulb and waits for the world to revolve around her.

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[-] No1@aussie.zone 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Me to tram driver:

"SEND IT, BRO!"

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Even setting aside that it's so unnecessarily huge, imagine having the utter contempt for others and self-importance necessary to park up on tram lines like that.

[-] Bloomcole@lemm.ee 44 points 1 month ago

That will be expensive.
And dumb, how can you not see the tracks?

[-] Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 57 points 1 month ago

Just like how they can't see kids when they're peeling off their driveway.

[-] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I worked the ER for a smaller hospital in the past and one evening I was called in because a father had ran over his own son with one of those pickups. The kid ran out to greet him but the father couldn't see his own kid because the lifted pickup's hood was too high.

I sincerely hate those wanktanks with all my heart and soul

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[-] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 month ago
[-] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

Dodge Ram. Making bank off insecurity

[-] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 38 points 1 month ago
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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago

Time to equip the tram with giant sawblades to clear the way.

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[-] Lininop@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 month ago

There is something poetic about this image and how the USA "fits" in with the rest of the world.

[-] javiwhite@feddit.uk 35 points 1 month ago

From dodge ram to didn't dodge and was rammed

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[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

French has a nice neologism for this phenomenon: autobésité

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[-] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

They look just as stupid here in Germany

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[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

American cars are the way they are because if you make them big enough, you can classify them as a truck. Trucks, because of old regulations aimed at farmers, have lower safety standards. The automakers thus don't have to spend as much on development and can make bank off of idiots that feel safer in their death traps just because they can see over the sedans.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 27 points 1 month ago

Trucks, because of old regulations aimed at farmers, have lower safety standards.

More importantly, they have lower standards for emissions and efficiency.
So the manufacturers would have to spend more on research and development, then build smaller cars which sell for less and fewer people buy – or they can go the other way, build bigger cars that are cheaper to make for more money to more people.

The real issue here is badly written regulations due to lobbying.
In Germany for example, a vehicle classified as "light truck" can't have a back seat.
Which is fine for farmers and craftsmen, but not for the majority of private citizens.
And for commercial trucks above 3.5 tons, you need a different driver's license.

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[-] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So what will the authorities in the Netherlands do in this situation? Put a ticket on it and then wait for the owner to move it? Tow it to an impound lot? Flip it and light it on fire?

Whatever size the vehicle, you can't block the tracks...

EDIT: I've been in this situation in streetcars in San Francisco and New Orleans. No emergency vehicles came, no super tow truck...the streetcar just waited and blocked traffic until the driver came back and moved their vehicle. I don't know what would have happened if the driver never came back, but nothing happened in the 20-30 minutes we waited.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 42 points 1 month ago

Tow it and charge the owner for getting it back.

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

In my country they tow tram track blockers immediately. I think it's some sort of 'emergency' towing too (arrives faster and is more expensive). If it takes too long, they temporarily replace the tram line with a bus. I imagine it's the same in many places.

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[-] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

Canadian here - they’re useless here too. Saw a guy the other day who couldn’t even put some 2x4s in his box because it was to short due to having full size back seats. He had them poking through the window into the cab 😂

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[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

I see someone parked their emotional support truck in the normal car parking spot.

[-] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

We don't need US cars like that one in the US!

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