• LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    34·
    17 hours ago

    Remember when Hummer came out with a consumer SUV back in the early 90s? I remember thinking they were gigantic and too big for the roads/parking spots. Quick search tells me the wheel base was 130inches (3.3m or 10.8ft). Here it is completely in a parking spot.

    A modern F250 supercab with an 8-foot bed is 175.9in (4.5m / 14.7ft). A 6.75-foot bed, the wheelbase is 147.8in (3.75m / 12.3ft). I wish we could go back to the days of the Hummer…

    • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      8 hours ago

      I wish we could go back to the days of the Hummer…

      I wish there was a size max for cars where even the hummer would not be allowed on the road. Cars like pickup trucks and SUV’s increase danger for others. It would be better if there was more public transportation and less cars, and the only cars out there are just plain cars and vans for delivery / mechanic services etc. Because why should other people have a higher risk of dying just because someone has a micropenis?

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        6 hours ago

        “Normal” SUVs are something like 70% more likely to kill the pedestrian in a collision with one that cars like sedans.

        SUVs are anti-social cars.

        IMHO, it’s a great example that The Law isn’t really done to protect common people that those things are allowed on the road when they’re actually unecessary (unlike, say, delivery vans) and almost twice as deadly for other people than normal cars.

        • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Yeah, that’s exactly my point, and there are loads of statistics supporting out claims, yet the automotive industry still has way too much influence so roads are being widened and public transport isn’t improved enough and made cheaper. At least here in the Netherlands a lot is done to improve medestriab and cycling infrastructure, and ways to reduce cars in cities (or sometimes van them completely) but nothing is done about the massive tank death trap SUV’s, usually with a driver more interested in his phone than driving safely (because chance of injury is low while driving it, fuck the rest right… FFS)

      • kossa@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        why should other people have a higher risk of dying just because someone has a micropenis?

        Always has been. These days this just also enables “normal people” with micropenis to endanger their fellow citizens.

        But micropenises basically, in all of history, sent other people to their deaths. Be it war, starvation, random generic atrocities, you name it.

        I feel micropenis is a metaphor for something else here.

    • AxExRx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      12 hours ago

      I remember when they first came out, someone tried to take an H2 down this narrow one way brick road with high curbs in our town, and managed to wedge himself in between the curbs completely stuck, threatening to shed his sideways if he went forward of backwards

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      The actual HMMWV is actually a pretty cool and reasonable vehicle for medium utility tasks and off roading. What the Hummer became and what passes for consumer light trucks is ridiculous.

    • ramenshaman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      132·
      16 hours ago

      I can’t help but think the H1 is fucking cool. They’re not that long but they are W I D E.

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      12 hours ago

      It’s an old geezer’s car compared to a stadium super truck, if they were street legal…