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David Zipper
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Some caveats: The
@NHTSAgov
proposal doesn’t address 🔹 Ways that car bloat harms cyclists 🔹 Big cars’ massive blind spots 🔹 Car bloat problems beyond safety (pollution, highway damage, etc) Is the new proposal a panacea? No. Is it real progress? Absolutely.
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My 5 year old's servant
@fakesportsbot
Always laugh at the guy with a 3/4 ton raised extended cab that is perfectly clean, not a scratch on it, and a bed that looks brand new. Tells me they dont actually use the truck for anything other than driving around town.
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Andrew Szafran
@aszafran
It won't get us lighter cars, just more techno gadgetry and spyware. This is America after all, and I no longer have any faith in the place or its government. Nah. Proper solution would be to require CDL for anything over 2T or so and tax registrations by weight.
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Jason Shah
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Jason Shah
@jasonshah
I suspect EV SUVs are immediately going to add a ton of additional weight in the form of battery capacity to get around these rules. They will justify this in the form of marketing themselves as the only EV SUV that are still "rugged" after the rules go in effect. x.com/DavidZipper/st…
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Gil Gildner
@gilgildner
I actually drive a Gwagen because it's safer for my family, so hopefully this regulation attempt will be struck down
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Louie Belt
@louie_belt
Buy a 1 ton instead of a 3/4 ton and you exceed the 10,000 lb. limit and are free of those restrictions. Instead of an F250, buy an F350, or a Chevy 3500 or RAM 3500. Almost the same price, same size truck but licensed differently.
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Tim Castleman
@aztc
I have always asked where are the air bags for people OUTSIDE of the speeding monster bearing down on mom and her toddler?
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pismosteve
@pismosteve
Why do we have to create new rules to help enforce existing ones? Isn’t it illegal to hit pedestrians already?
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Rybo
@amusksee
Yeah how about pedestrians only cross when there aren't cars driving through. Ya know, use their eyeballs. 99% of the time its the pedestrians fault.
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ZENitram
@ZEN_itram
You'll only be happy when the Government is the only organization building the same stamped out, super safety car and doesn't sell it for a profit.
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TeacherTrish
@TeacherTrishSNE
I hope the Motor Safety Standards people look at side mirror placement as well— it’s hard to see who/what might be in the crosswalk while turning left in a Jeep Grand Cherokee.
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Megan Ramey
@BIKABOUT
I was attending a session on AV this morning at the
@GHSAHQ
and brought this / Economist article up in my question. Good to see the universe is acting in accordance.
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Waldo
@Aquarius11_02
Have you been driving at night on a dark highway and have one of these tanks heading straight towards you? My car was filled with light. I couldn't see, I thought aliens arrived.. do something about the lights!
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Count The VOTE😷MaskUp
@MydibaTh
I’ll leave this here:
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alexandre afonso
@alexandreafonso
For some SUVs, the front blind zone is so large that you can have 12 children sitting in front of the car and the driver cannot see them.
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Clarkston Guy
@GuyClarkston
They are likely just looking to add hoods that act like air bags for pedestrians. Apparently it kind of works in Europe's crowded low speed city centers. Call it another $1000 government mandate that will make the SUV even heavier...
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flexo rodriguez
@43blah
EPA mandates fleet mileage rules. The Big Three can't profit enough from small cars so they take advantage of the light truck loophole to make ever bigger and popular SUVs and pickups. The Feds want EVs and the manufacturers lose big time on them. Now this potential road block.
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TeeJay
@z500_tj
You mean the the only vehicles legacy automakers can make profitably, bloated SUV's & trucks? Good luck with those rule changes 😆 (Just more pre-election pretend changes that will never happen)
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jason
@Colorado_N8tive
Nobody wants to acknowledge it but it’s the EPA’s own regulations that encourage bigger cars and bigger footprints of the same cars - it’s the only way for manufacturers to me increasing standards of cars to have higher MPGs - if you increase the size the requirements are less
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SocialQuirky
@SocialQuirky
There is something VERY wrong with the mentality of your stereotypical #American #driver and the vehicles they FREELY buy, and how they CHOOSE to outfit them: Yukons, 'Defenders'(?!), F1500s etc. BULLBARS. SPOTLIGHTS. BLACKED-OUT windows. Off-road jacks. Lots of ANGRY drivers.
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Not Your Job
@notyourjob
More socialist policies invading American private lives. What next? Car choices based only on family size? Tragic overreach.
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Bill G
@BginEg2
Such bullshit. Leftists pathetic attempt to get rid of SUV’s ironically while top leftist politicians ride in them everyday. Are there stats showing a majority of pedestrian car accidents are caused by the driver is SUV’s? Not by cars or the pedestrians?
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Whatadayright?
@whatadayri26835
The federal government created the problem with cheap money policies from the fiat pumper federal reserve. The idea that they can solve the problem they created is laughable. This seems to be a routine with the federal government “we created this problem but trust us to fix it!”
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Sean in Manitoba
@RightSideofMB
First step is repeal the CAFE act, and allow tiny foreign trucks to be built and sold domestically. Why, you ask? Because consumers don’t want “pedestrian safety” but they do, and have for decades, want smaller trucks and that has the by product of being safer. Pick yo battles.
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Whatadayright?
@whatadayri26835
Instead of letting the federal government micromanage even more of our economy why not just abolish the fed and let interest rates rise to whatever the market decides? Less people would be able to afford these monstrous vehicles without long term low interest rate loans.
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Markness
@Markness
Pedestrians are only 2% of vehicle related injuries. This has nothing to do with pedestrian safety.
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Wither
@WitherSDL
No its not, the cars are that big because they demanded it in the first place. Relying on them to fix it makes you the biggest retard in the room.
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Mad Ludwig
@MadLudwig6
Pure underhanded bureaucracy at the hands of unelected government employees. This has nothing to do with safety. It's to push smaller cars. Since you're so worried about pedestrians, is it safe to assume we should get rid of EVs too? What about trains, semi trucks, and busses?
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dannythetunnelking
@dannythetu29356
Hopefully Trump wins and kills this nonsense. EVs are the real danger, they are 20% heavier than ICE cars the same size. Momentum is mass times velocity. Simple physics.
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