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75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why

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A 3,000 punt vehicle will have a lot less braking distance than a 6,000 pound one.

A big vehicle like that has a lot more horizontal blind spot, it's been a major thing with drivers of those monstrosities literally not seeing kids, people in wheelchairs etc.

Most people are out of their depths with such big vehicles in many ways, they should require a specific license because it's such a different thing compared to a normal sized car in so many ways.

It's a real bad combination of way to big cars with all the negatives + phone and in car touch screen use. It's absolutely not 90% either of them, it's a combination.

This is also mostly American, no other country has cars like that in those numbers (per capita), and Americans also have a higher phone usage while driving percentage than most of the world.

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75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why

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It's just such a fucking constant thing everywhere online, anything about America is just written like it's a worldwide thing because most Americans need to be told that the rest of the world exists for their broken brains to remember that.
It's so fucking tiring just seeing the never ending "here's a thing" that's very specifically about the US but posted everywhere and never titled or talked about like it's a US specific thing.
It's not just titles either, it's the articles those posts link to, the videos, the everything all the way that not a single person thought "oh, this is US specific and should probably be shared as such".

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This is going to be a rough summer

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Many just can't escape it, for many reasons. People are dying, and this will only become more and more common and even worse. We only see the short term effects now too, it'll be so much worse after some years when the long term effects become clear. Crops dying, water shortages, infrastructure damage etc.

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no rule infuriates me more

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People seem to love being bots, half of the human internet is literally just people repeating the same shitty stuff over and over millions of times. Like half of the comments on any youtube video being "babe, wake up", "legendary refresh pull" etc.
And people only watching, listening to, playing, eating, wearing etc. the current popular things just because they are popular, they need to be the same as everyone else and think that people who doesn't do that are weird and bad. It's truly disturbing IMO.

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They aren't gonna stop are they?

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I think he only cares about this half-imaginary number being big as possible. He tried the politics/power thing for a bit but I feel it's clear that wasn't for him. He doesn't want to be on stage and talked about, those are just consequences of his real want. Everyone else that are even remotely close to him in that use way more to bribe, control and change things for their views.