Where I live the speed has recently been reduced from 30 mph to 15 mph in an effort to make the area more livable. Roads have been narrowed with more room for trees, sidewalks and bike paths. As well as artificial choke points and high speed bumps, all in an effort to improve life for the people living there. This is done alongside an effort to create larger high speed roads around the area and push cars to use those, which are the long way around but since they are higher speed still faster.

However fucking idiots driving these huge trucks can just go across the speed bumps at 45 mph and they rush all the choke point no matter if they have the right of way or not. When such a huge thing comes rushing at you, you move out of the way. They also regularly cut across parts where cars aren't supposed to go. For example tight corners where the side walk is lower so larger delivery trucks and busses can still make the corner by cutting across the side walk a bit. Regular cars are supposed to just drive around them and in a regular car the kerb will make sure people don't normally do that. The big trucks however use them all the time as they don't even notice the kerb.

Since car brains experience the efforts to slow everything down as obstacles to overcome, more and more choose to drive these huge trucks and drive any speed and route they want. This actually goes against all the efforts to make the area better for pets, bicycles and people.

We desperately need max weight and size limits for cars.

Why does GMC Denali, the largest one, not simply eat the other one?

If your truck is that clean, you should not have a truck.

Luxury pickups are such a stupid class of vehicle.

The thing about America is that it's full of loud, obnoxious assholes who do not take kindly to you if you point out the fact that they're assholes (even subtly and without using that verbiage).

its owner is compelled to park across both the stop sign and the crosswalk.

To me, it's more a case of the owner feeling entitled to do this. They have the (likely easier and much cheaper) option of buying a vehicle that's appropriate to the primary environment they'll be operating it in, and chose not to. This isn't compulsion, it's just another in a chain of selfish decisions.

I'm not 100% on board with the whole "fuck cars" thing but fuck that truck's owner sideways.

I work on a building sites here in Ireland,can someone tell me why use this? It's like a van but less good in every way

I want a japanese kei car. They make the mazda look like it's a monster truck. Something like the Daihatsu Copen.

I guarantee that the mx-5 has carried more passengers and more cargo then that truck ever has or will.

Trucks should NOT be this tall, if you get into an accident with this asshole he's gonna walk away and you're going to the morgue.

Call the police. Get their ass ticketed. That shit is illegal for a reason. Going to get someone killed.

You get the sense that petrol is too cheap in the US

Wow, crazy. I'm not sure that would be allowed on the road here in the UK. How do you see where you're going when you're driving? How do you get in?

These vehciles should be banned for personal use and only allow businesses to buy them. That will reduce the amount of morons doong shit like this

It sounds like the "vehicles this large are simply incompatible with urban living" is a self solving problem as long as the police actually enforces traffic regulations: if people chosing excessivelly large vehicle for the environment were they live keep on getting repeatedly fined because such vehicles in such environments "pressure their owners to continually break traffic law" they'll chose differently.

This is probably part of the reason why such vehicles are very rare in European cities: in such places it's even more likely that they have to break the law to park such a vehicle (smaller cities and parking space) and were the police is probably more likely to enforce such laws with a stern hand (in some countries fines even grow proportionally to one's income), especially in some countries were it's far more common for people to simply phone the police to denounce a vehicle parked in a way that outrageously breaks the rules.

Denali is a trim level not a model, that’s a Sierra 2500 HD.

The Denali badge is just an extra “fuck you, look at my money” on top of the everything else going on here.

GMC will not stop until the Miata can drive right under it.

Compelled? Compelled??

im just always thinking about how does this huge ass vehicle park in a big city

I wish the TÜV and Dekra were inspecting vehicles, using German standards, in the USA.

It's crazy how many micro penisses there are in the US, seeing the amount of penis-size-compensators on the road.

I bet those tires would make one hell of a whooshing sound...

i've got dozen++ neighbors with that kinda vehicle.

I guess some people are scared to drive in the USA without covering every inch of themselves in steel, fake carbon fiber, and Truck Nutz.