For the civilised counties that's 1.75 meters.
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Whaaaaat? That’s my height!!! That tank is what? 2 meters? And you tell me that’s a civil car? Like everyone can drive it? Don’t need to go to the army? 😳😳😳
Wow that girl is 3 meter tall what a beast
No it is the distance from the car lmao. Well tank.
That’s a weird looking tank
How else are the owners supposed to compensate for their 2cm dicks?
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They view sex as transactional, performative, superficial, and perhaps even competative
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Use their fingers?
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Who ever wrote that meme text has definitively been huffing too much exhaust.
Yank tanks are multiplying on this side of the Pacific now too. I’m 6’3” and feel like a little toddler next to one. Just as easy to run over, no doubt.
I got ran over by a car while on my bike at a roundabout bike & pedestrian crossing: I'm so glad it was a normal sized Opel instead of a tank. Only got a bruise on my butt and even my bike just needed the front wheel realigned. If it was a F-whatever monstrosity I would've been hurt much, much worse.
Personal vehicles in cities should be limited anyways and public transportation/pedestrian & biking paths encouraged. I hate the dust rising from stud tires grinding asphalt.
@gurnu @FrostyCaveman
I think the majority of streets don't need to be thoroughfares for cars. We could block and barricade most streets so that bicycles and pedestrians can pass through but cars can only get in and out by a single route. Anyone who isn't visiting a home or business in that neighborhood just wouldn't turn off of the main road. Rat running, the use of parallel side streets to avoid traffic and police speed enforcement also causes a lot of problems. #FuckCars #Urbanism
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There's diagrams that show the visual impairments such trucks have. They are worse than semi trucks and even an Abrams tank.
I don't get how these people even feel comfortable driving something where you can't see the road that's in front of you for 10+ meters out. I just wouldn't feel safe, there could be any kind of obstruction you can't see on the road from 10m away but will still fuck up your day and/or life.
They don't look or care. Their car is big enough that they'll plough right through a bunch of kids before they even notice they're on the sidewalk.
If they thought about things and came to good conclusions afterwards, they probably wouldn't be driving this kind of car to begin with. The people who are driving it are probably not good thinkers.
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As a truck driver I get it. It's nice to see more. The tradeoff isn't worth it and not why they do it. I would bet my paycheck they never take it off road either. Which would be the only good reason to raise something that much. Truckers have a good reason to. They have giant engine and transmissions that need to last for the industrial work involved.
but you don't actually see more, that's kinda the whole point here?
maybe you see over other cars but you lose sight closer to you
cabovers are almost exclusively used throughout europe and asia. it's only america and australia that tends to use the big bonnet american style trucks.
there no real reason for it
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Above a certain height, trucks should be mandated to have the engine behind, like eurotrucks.
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My redneck ranch family has run over so. Many. Of their own dogs
WTF
The Onion having to change their repetitious article title from “Nation” to “Family”…
How else are they going to advertise their tiny cocks without public indecency charges?
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Neat? Idk, I’m newish
Yeah I’m just here to fuck cars idk
Should require a CDL to drive something that big. It's a bus sized front end.
And transit busses have a flat front end and a large wind shield.
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I agree but I think that car hoods should be higher. If you're hit by one of these you'll die slowly of organ pulverization. It'd be better to be hit in the head and die quickly of head pulverization. It's just that the poor truck cannot reach that high so it needs to be BIGGER. Maybe stick some spikes on there too, and have an optional extended package for saw blades!
(/s in case it wasn't apparent)
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How much fuel does it burn in comparison to normal European car?
Yes
And then some
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