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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm in an element, so I'm pretty high up and I get blinded. When I drive my wife's Mazda 3 it's fucking horrible

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Dude, I drive tractor-trailer and still get blinded frequently, with my eyeballs like eight or nine fucking feet off the ground. It’s ridiculous. New Subarus are the worst offenders right now, their low beams are literally aimed up on like a 15 degree angle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I feel like in that case they just have their brights on because Subaru drivers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Even an element has the driver's eyes below the hood of a lot of these new SUVs. I agree, shit sucks. There needs to be regulations around vehicle heights and weights. I don't get why I need a special license to drive a work van that weighs less than these things

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Light trucks exist in kind of a legal loophole in the US

These vehicles have been pushed hard because they're not held to the same standard as cars and are more profitable as a result

I'm pretty sure that even tho cars have gotten more efficient that average fuel economy has gone down because of the proliferation of these massive vehicles sold to Americans a daily drivers