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[revalations]

Oil up over $100 already, first time since 2014. Markets are going to be interesting tomorrow!


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[rrocket]

Oil up over $100 already, first time since 2014. Markets are going to be interesting tomorrow!


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Russia's market is closed until further notice apparently.

[Bubba]

Life is too short to drive boring cars.  That is all.

[Great_Big_Abyss]

Bubba, you're back!

[Triple Bob]

Woot, he's back!

[rrocket]

Geez.......

https://slate.com/business/2022/02/suvs-pickups-heavy-huge-deadly-dont-buy-em.html

[Ex-airbalancer]

Geez.......

https://slate.com/business/2022/02/suvs-pickups-heavy-huge-deadly-dont-buy-em.html

They do have a point , my 2011 pick up looks small compared to the new ones

[EV Dan]

Geez.......

https://slate.com/business/2022/02/suvs-pickups-heavy-huge-deadly-dont-buy-em.html

As someone who once owned an F150 for business needs, I just don't get why ppl buy a truck as a daily. The mileage is terrible, it's hard to park in the city, it doesn't fit inside a normal garage and the rear live axle is felt on every significant bump or pothole. Sure, you can haul a lot of junk from Ikea but in case of furniture or appliances the delivery fee is such a tiny portion of the price tag.

In terms of safety, a case from several years back comes to mind. A kid got run over by his dad's truck and died. The family never recovered from that and a few years later the father took his own life.

So yeah, I believe modern trucks should have mandatary pedestrian safety systems without an off key and in cases like that Hummer EV, a need for AZ licence or similar.

[rrocket]

His whole premise is if you drive a mid-size SUV, that's better.  Nonsense.

Mid-size SUVs fare no better.  And that's according to the NHTSA and IIHS.

Oh..and regardless of vehicles, any speed over 60km/h with a pedestrian is over 80% fatal.

[EV Dan]

His whole premise is if you drive a mid-size SUV, that's better.  Nonsense.

Mid-size SUVs fare no better.  And that's according to the NHTSA and IIHS.

Oh..and regardless of vehicles, any speed over 60km/h with a pedestrian is over 80% fatal.

One of his points was you can't see over a hood so tall and ppl get injured or killed in low speed collisions, at the malls and driveways. With exception of the new Escalade and related models, most other SUVs, even BOFs, have lower hoods and a lot of new SUVs come with pedestrian safety systems, in case of Toyota and Lexus, in the base trims.

While his writing style is all over the place, he makes some good points.

[HeliDriver]

I didn’t read the whole thing, but skimmed through it and couldn’t find anything there I disagreed with. Pickups and the giant SUVs today are ridiculous.

Yeah, I know, I’m a hypocrite. 

[rrocket]

His whole premise is if you drive a mid-size SUV, that's better.  Nonsense.

Mid-size SUVs fare no better.  And that's according to the NHTSA and IIHS.

Oh..and regardless of vehicles, any speed over 60km/h with a pedestrian is over 80% fatal.

One of his points was you can't see over a hood so tall and ppl get injured or killed in low speed collisions, at the malls and driveways. With exception of the new Escalade and related models, most other SUVs, even BOFs, have lower hoods and a lot of new SUVs come with pedestrian safety systems, in case of Toyota and Lexus, in the base trims.

While his writing style is all over the place, he makes some good points.

I dunno..if you look at some data, pedestrian deaths always seem to hover around 15%, with a few years being outliers.

And this is going back to 1975.

Also...50% of pedestrian deaths involve alcohol.

Maybe it was his smug tone that irritated me.

[quadzilla]

SO pickups are bigger than cars and you will have problems seeing small children/people in front of it. Hasn't this been true for decades?

I should have taken a picture from inside my friends Tacoma when she parked behind my Corolla as you couldn't see the back half of it from inside the truck. No wonder it has a front camera so you can park it.

Even the Mrs Ford Flex you can't see anything in front of it. I imagine many other SUVs are just as bad.

[OliverD]

SO pickups are bigger than cars and you will have problems seeing small children/people in front of it. Hasn't this been true for decades?

Considering how obsessed we are with the safety of people inside cars we're surprisingly blasé about the safety of people outside of cars. The pedestrian fatality rate in the U.S. increased by 21% between 2019 and 2020. Both vehicle design and road design are to blame for this.

[Fobroader]

SO pickups are bigger than cars and you will have problems seeing small children/people in front of it. Hasn't this been true for decades?

Considering how obsessed we are with the safety of people inside cars we're surprisingly blasé about the safety of people outside of cars. The pedestrian fatality rate in the U.S. increased by 21% between 2019 and 2020. Both vehicle design and road design are to blame for this.

With the amount of suicidal pedestrians I see on the daily that are willing to jump into traffic with their faces buried in their phones, I...I don't care. If they don't care about their well being, I can only do so much. This whole, "pedestrians have the right of way" idiocy is the first problem, start teaching people from a young age that cars are bigger and will kill you and that even if you are right, you still lose.

[OliverD]

SO pickups are bigger than cars and you will have problems seeing small children/people in front of it. Hasn't this been true for decades?

Considering how obsessed we are with the safety of people inside cars we're surprisingly blasé about the safety of people outside of cars. The pedestrian fatality rate in the U.S. increased by 21% between 2019 and 2020. Both vehicle design and road design are to blame for this.

With the amount of suicidal pedestrians I see on the daily that are willing to jump into traffic with their faces buried in their phones, I...I don't care. If they don't care about their well being, I can only do so much. This whole, "pedestrians have the right of way" idiocy is the first problem, start teaching people from a young age that cars are bigger and will kill you and that even if you are right, you still lose.

That's hardly what I'm talking about though.

[Fobroader]

SO pickups are bigger than cars and you will have problems seeing small children/people in front of it. Hasn't this been true for decades?

Considering how obsessed we are with the safety of people inside cars we're surprisingly blasé about the safety of people outside of cars. The pedestrian fatality rate in the U.S. increased by 21% between 2019 and 2020. Both vehicle design and road design are to blame for this.

With the amount of suicidal pedestrians I see on the daily that are willing to jump into traffic with their faces buried in their phones, I...I don't care. If they don't care about their well being, I can only do so much. This whole, "pedestrians have the right of way" idiocy is the first problem, start teaching people from a young age that cars are bigger and will kill you and that even if you are right, you still lose.

That's hardly what I'm talking about though.

Really?? I thought you were talking about people ending up underneath vehicles.

[OliverD]

SO pickups are bigger than cars and you will have problems seeing small children/people in front of it. Hasn't this been true for decades?

Considering how obsessed we are with the safety of people inside cars we're surprisingly blasé about the safety of people outside of cars. The pedestrian fatality rate in the U.S. increased by 21% between 2019 and 2020. Both vehicle design and road design are to blame for this.

With the amount of suicidal pedestrians I see on the daily that are willing to jump into traffic with their faces buried in their phones, I...I don't care. If they don't care about their well being, I can only do so much. This whole, "pedestrians have the right of way" idiocy is the first problem, start teaching people from a young age that cars are bigger and will kill you and that even if you are right, you still lose.

That's hardly what I'm talking about though.

Really?? I thought you were talking about people ending up underneath vehicles.

Yes, I'm talking about the ~7000 pedestrians that died in the U.S. and Canada in 2020. Presumably not all 7000 of them had "their faces buried in their phones".

I walk to and from work almost every day, and I have to cross two reasonably busy streets to do that. One has a signalized crosswalk and isn't too bad to cross. The other one has no marked crosswalk so I often have to wait for a break in traffic, which is fine. I've definitely had a few close calls there though, from people who are not paying attention at all. As a pedestrian, that's not my fault and I definitely don't want to end up underneath a vehicle.

[Fobroader]

SO pickups are bigger than cars and you will have problems seeing small children/people in front of it. Hasn't this been true for decades?

Considering how obsessed we are with the safety of people inside cars we're surprisingly blasé about the safety of people outside of cars. The pedestrian fatality rate in the U.S. increased by 21% between 2019 and 2020. Both vehicle design and road design are to blame for this.

With the amount of suicidal pedestrians I see on the daily that are willing to jump into traffic with their faces buried in their phones, I...I don't care. If they don't care about their well being, I can only do so much. This whole, "pedestrians have the right of way" idiocy is the first problem, start teaching people from a young age that cars are bigger and will kill you and that even if you are right, you still lose.

That's hardly what I'm talking about though.

Really?? I thought you were talking about people ending up underneath vehicles.

Yes, I'm talking about the ~7000 pedestrians that died in the U.S. and Canada in 2020. Presumably not all 7000 of them had "their faces buried in their phones".

Noooo, probably only like ~6800 

[OliverD]

See my edit above.