Why Absurdly Large Trucks Are Terrible For Cities

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Large pickup truck models are the top three selling vehicles in the US, now holding over a 20% share of all new vehicle sales. The Ford F Series, the Ram, and the Chevy Silverado dominate car sales, and the growing share of heavy vehicles on the road creates problems for the efficiency, sustainability, and safety of our transportation system.
This video explores the evolution of truck size over the past 40 years, how they're marketed, and a bit of the science around why this growing segment is so hazardous to other transportation system users.
Other CityNerd videos referenced in this video:
- The Stroad Ecosystem Examined: • The Stroad: A Case Stu...
Other Resources:
- "The Hidden Danger of Big Trucks" by Keith Barry for Consumer Reports, available at www.consumerreports.org/car-s...
- The 2021 EPA Automotive Trends Report, acailable at nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?D...
- "Top 25 Bestselling Cars, Trucks, and SUVs of 2021" by Joey Capparella from Car and Driver, available at www.caranddriver.com/news/g36...
- "GM squeezes pounds and pennies to attack Ford's pickup profit machine" by Joseph White for Reuters, available at www.reuters.com/article/us-gm...
- "Why Annual Pickup Truck Sales Have More Than Doubled Over The Last Decade" by Jim Gorzelany for Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorze...
- "Big Cars Are Killing Americans" by Angie Schmitt for The Atlantic, available at www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc...
- "As Autos Sales Fall, Shoppers Snap Up Pickup Trucks" by Jerry Hirsch for Forbes, available at www.forbes.com/wheels/news/sh...
- "Pounds That Kill: The External
Costs of Vehicle Weight" by Michael L. Anderson and Maximilian Auffhammer, from Review of Economic Studies, available at static1.squarespace.com/stati...
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- 1975 Honda Civic By Fletcher6 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- 2015 Honda Civic By Alexander Migl - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- 1992 Chevy Tahoe By Akdylan18 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- 1980_Datsun_Pickup By Lee Mills - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- Datsun_620_truck By Muyo - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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- 14_GMC_Sierra_2500HD_(MIAS_'14) By Bull-Doser - Own work, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...)
- Monster Truck pics by CraigL from Pixabay
- Chevy Silverado ad from www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/bu...
- F-450_coal_rolling_Monster(By Salvatore Arnone - / watchv=ist4qjvs9sw , CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...)
- Landscaper truck By Ildar Sagdejev (Specious) - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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- Toyota Corolla By Kevauto - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- Airbags By Pineapple fez - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- Pickup truck vector Image by Susrut Mishra from Pixabay
- Crumple zone By Fotograf: Stefan Lampert. Users Ahellwig, Sebastian8939, Saiki on de.wikipedia - Feuerwehr Meerane, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- Leaning Tower of Pisa Image by Please Don't sell My Artwork AS IS from Pixabay
- Pickup truck on beach By Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States - Oceano Beach Flag Truck, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
- Lowrider By dave_7 from Canada - Ford truck lowrider, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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@MrTrevortxeartxe 7 месяцев назад

In America, "the land of freedom," you're NOT free unless you drive an expensive car that costs you minimum $11,000 a year to own. You are chained to your car down here. So much for freedom.

@thiccum2668 7 месяцев назад

Exactly!

@bullcrap9409 4 месяца назад

Nice. I think you’d enjoy the third (4th?) verse of Randy Newman’s “Rednecks”.

@jooot_6850 3 месяца назад

Anti-democratic and anti-capitalist sentiments detected. Please report to your nearest Freedom Camp immediately.

@tabbyteacat 6 месяцев назад

you can haul a significant amount of stuff in most sedans, just put the back seats down and lay a tarp in the back. my dad does a significant amount of home depot shopping, and we've never had a problem.

@jooot_6850 3 месяца назад

Hatchbacks and station wagons, the cars of the people. I’ve hauled an entire set of wheels with tires as well as half a Mustang exhaust system in my 92 Impreza. More than most modern pickups will ever do lmao

@fluuufffffy1514 2 года назад

As a landscaper, I've driven both big ass pickups and 'contractor dump trucks' (those flat-faced Isuzu ones). The dumps, while bigger and twice as heavy of a vehicle, are WAY easier to maneuver and park than the pick-ups! It's all about visibility and turn radius

@free2er 9 месяцев назад

American love for monster trucks ideally sums up the American society big, obnoxious, insecure inside.

@johanna7254 2 года назад

i live in an small city in CA that is full of these things. They drive way too fast. They can't fit into most parking spaces, so they often stick out dangerously or use two spaces. Drivers are so high up that they can't see pedestrians, bikes, motorcycles or even small cars. And they barely ever carry anything. But people are obsessed. I have a coworker who turned in his fuel-efficient Corolla sedan for a massive Ram truck. He literally drives five miles to the office most days.

@jlothrop91 2 года назад

Someone buying a pickup for 'practical reasons' will almost always be better served by buying a van. Don't want a van? Maybe you don't need a pickup.

@ThepoLarbear-le1yz 2 года назад

I've worked at a carshare company before. Customers overwhelmingly preferred vans to utes. When you need a vehicle to haul stuff you choose the practical option, not what looks more "powerful". It's only when you aren't hauling that you care about looks.

@CIorox_BIeach 2 года назад

Vans are kind of a city only thing, but the pickups now are just as useless. Better off getting an older vehicle.

@erickhan6349 2 года назад

pickups look way cooler than vans

@rellirTnoraa1 2 года назад

As someone who owns a cargo van and a truck I would disagree. Yes my van can haul things but it’s much harder to load/unload because unless you have palletized cargo it all has to be done by hand, a pickup can be loaded with a tractor or loader bucket over the side or from the side in the case of flat beds. Also with my van I’m limited by height granted most modern vans come with high roofs but an old pickup can be had for a lot cheaper.

@stop.juststop 2 года назад

As someone who was looking for a cheap home, I looked at a ton of vans. Found a pick up with a camper on the back. What I like about that over a van is that it separates my living space from the cabin. When I'm in the camper, I sometimes forget that I'm living in my truck. No real amenities, but I can hook up power if I need to. Plus I can almost stand up completely straight in there versus most vans. On my budget, this works way better.

@Santiago8041 Год назад

I was glad to see that your informal study confirmed my choice of term for these vehicles...Airhaulers.

@Santiago8041 Год назад

Given where I live, I call them Texas Airhaulers. Of course they have to be big enough to make most EVs seem cheap. 😁

@8antipode9 Год назад

I have also been known to criticize large vehicles, and I actually had a coworker at the time admit that she drives a massive vehicle because it is safer for her. At the time though, I didn't consider the fact that it is safer for her but more dangerous for everyone else. It's like a vehicular arms race!

@namenamename390 2 года назад

There's actually a good reason for these huge, sturdy looking pickups with off-road suspension and such: the expensive, unmaintained (and unmaintainable) infrastructure in the US is crumbling away, you need an off-road ride to traverse it. /s

@gedoensful 2 года назад

Of course the infrastructure is (at least partially) crumbling away because of cars that are too heavy. How fun!

@conradbielicki774 2 года назад

Check out the world rally championships! Gravel is fun in a small light car

@michaeloreilly657 2 года назад

@@conradbielicki774 There's actually a good reason the expensive, unmaintained (and unmaintainable) infrastructure in the US is crumbling away, you need an off-road sturdy looking pickup with off-road suspension! LOL

@tatwood93 2 года назад

Or, you could just run 13-15 inch steel rims with some actual sidewall on your tire. But noo we have to have these wannabe JDM tuner alloys on everything

@CityNerd 2 года назад

One of the better uses of "/s" I've seen

@1981menso 2 года назад

I own a home and in the last ten years I have needed a truck four times. Twice I just rented one from Home Depot for $25, the other two times I just had the stuff delivered. Both deliveries were free, furniture and building supplies. I can't and won't justify a truck purchase for anything other then commercial use or if you own a ranch.

@CityNerd 2 года назад

That's exactly where I'm at

@GeneralTank2 2 года назад

Wish the rental trucks would have 4x4 so they would be safer to drive in regions with snow and ice. If they don't the trucks are always RWD which is really bad with ice. Most people who actually buy trucks at least have that included.

@sabretooth1997 2 года назад

I always say this too - yet it's rather amazing what you can fit in a 4-door sedan (which I'll admit is even too large for 95% of my needs) with a fold-down rear seat. Sure, I can't haul a washing machine - but then again, why would I even want or need to? I'd venture a guess 99% of those types of places offer free delivery (and if they're cheating you out of that, what else are they ripping you off on?) So my current tally in 20+ years is still zero truck rentals. Of course, this is day-to-day needs; moves not included. I have rented vans and box trucks to move.

@ChesireRavenlol 2 года назад

That's you and your home and needs. But there are some other situations, people weekend taking boats and campers out, but I say if there's nothing in you bed, and never towing anything you Def don't need that truck. But I refuse to ever own a truck thay doesn't earn its insurance and fuel costs. The minute I'm not hauling and towing I'd be in a 6 cyl suv. Especially with this long ass fuel price height.

@Sb129 2 года назад

Lol

@Historybluff1986 5 месяцев назад

God forbid they scratch the liner with a real load.

@g.s.3450 Год назад

My first car was a VW bug, and my only pickup was a 1980's Toyota. Now, I live in a 15-minute urban neighborhood and don't own a car - life is good. I'm so glad that I did not joint the 'arms race' of heavy vehicles. Great video and I enjoyed your humor!

@markk3877 2 года назад

You hit on one of my biggest pet peeves. I had owned a pickup for 20 years, but even as a non-landscaper I used my truck for hauling stuff (all the time). Vinyl interior, basic trucks to haul toys, compost and “stuff”. My biggest truck was smaller than most big trucks these days…. I am pissed at the folks that drive pickups today…. Clearly they never haul ANYTHING so why buy one!

@austinhernandez2716 2 года назад

I heard about this one guy that said he didn't want to scratch up his bed so he didn't allow anything in it, making it entirely useless

@rudolphguarnacci197 2 года назад

They're not "folks." They're clowns.

@cobalt8619 2 года назад

I work with a retired man in his late 70s, he owns a massive ram pickup he recently bought new. Literally said he'd never put anything in it or he'd ruin the bed....??? Mind you he's pretty much retired, works 4 hours a day and lives alone and rarely leaves his house yet owns a gas hog truck for literally no reason

@SarahKate365 2 года назад

I see this a lot. 70-something men and women operating these tanks. People that are definitely not working in construction or landscaping or any kind of field requiring them to do heavy manual labor and haul equipment that requires a truck.

@conradbielicki774 2 года назад

i think in a situatio like that they got bamboozled at a dealership and are a bit proud to admit it. The high profit margins mean larger vehicles prolly earn a better comission for salespeople

@allsystemsgootechaf9885 2 года назад

@@SarahKate365 “let people enjoy things!” Should only fishermen be able to own boats??

@SarahKate365 2 года назад

@@allsystemsgootechaf9885 I do enjoy boats, but boats are a very different story. You can't travel the ocean or out on a lake without a boat. You don't need a huge honkin' truck to get groceries. For the reasons presented in the video, the increasing number of mammoth vehicles, particularly trucks, out on the streets does pose many concerns. Especially when they're lifted!

@Schindlabua 2 года назад

@@allsystemsgootechaf9885 The fact that driving a pick-up is considered "fun" is the problem. In Vienna, driving around the block 3 times to find a parking spot is so annoying that I never drive. And that's with a Fiat 500, a huge 2 ton pickup would give just give me road rage and anxiety. I understand that if you spend 2 hours on the road each day, you want the best available option for your budget, so me personally I'm not blaming people for buying monster trucks. You might even trick yourself into thinking that being stuck in traffic is "enjoyable", still I'd rather just walk to the store and bike to work. That's even more funner. I suspect the pickup problem will solve itself in ...50? years once the new generation of urban planners takes over and inevitably starts tearing down freeways and downsizing roads.

@TheZzpop 9 месяцев назад

Notice how many comments here are from people who need a pickups for their everday job and now find it increasingly difficult to find a practical one because all the pickups on the market now are made for show not for actual work. Anyone who actually is loading stuff on and off theh back of the truck all day wants the bed to be lower tot the ground, not 6 feet up in the air.

@PolkCountyWIProgressive Год назад

The real life hack - Instead of spending $50k in a new pick-up. Buy a small, used pick-up for $15k and a small, economy car for like $10k. You save money, use less fuel and still have the cheap pick-up for the few times you need it.

@fpm8338 6 месяцев назад

Another option is to just rent a truck from Home Depot for $20 for the first hour! I know it's not as convenient but still a good option if you don't have the money for a second vehicle. :)

@spyone4828 Год назад

I read a great article on a motorcycling site about modern pickups bemoaning how they were getting bigger and had long ago gotten too big, but not from the standpoint of encountering them in traffic. The guy was pointing out that to get something heavy (like a motorcycle) into the bed of a modern truck, you essentially have to lift it to chest height, and even with ramps that isn't easy. Gone are the days when an 8 foot board would serve as a ramp and you could push the bike up while standing on the ground.

@ttopero 2 года назад

I busted out laughing after 4:22: (as said with an engineer’s straight face) “this is what we call level of service A: a road with r lanes in each direction with no apparent traffic on it, is definitely the highest & best use of urban space”

@tubro541 Год назад

While I like level of service A roads, what is the cycling equivalent?

@patlynch6517 6 месяцев назад

What gets me is that buyers rushed out and bought oversized trucks and SUVs when gas was $3 per gallon. Then they whined and complained when gas went to $6 a gallon - as if they thought gas would be $3 a gallon forever!

@deptusmechanikus7362 5 месяцев назад

This modern obsession with oversized pickups looks completely obscene.

@thetrainhopper8992 2 года назад

I am going to get a bit real, since this video really speaks to me. While I really think cars who's hood is more than 3 feet off the ground should need a class B license, we also really need traffic calming measures. Even a 10 year old RAV 4 is way bigger than the Honda Accord that I was in that got into a wreck over the weekend. Traffic calming would do a lot to calm people down. A line of reflectors before the blind curve that we got hit on would have saved my mom's life.

@thexalon 2 года назад

My usual check for whether the pickup is a real working truck or what can only be characterized as a symbol of a certain kind of masculinity is: 1. Was it lifted? Lifted pickups are a significantly higher risk of rollover, and make it harder to get anything into or out of the truck bed, so in the kind of terrain near me they make zero sense if you're trying to do any work with it. 2. Is there anything resembling dirt on the vehicle? The symbolic pickups have a resounding "no" to that one. And yes, a large majority of pickups in my area are symbolic trucks, not working trucks. As for the HVAC guys, plumbers, etc, they usually either drive a small box truck or a van, because they then have a nice protected place to put all their tools and spare parts. Landscapers usually put their stuff on a trailer that *may* need a pickup to pull well. The only professions I can think of that definitely use their trucks around here are farmers and home construction.

@CityNerd 2 года назад

Nice -- I shoulda tightened up my criteria before I embarked on field work

@ebnertra0004 2 года назад

Also check for dents near the bed of the truck. Symbolic trucks do not have such imperfections

@SkylarsTerribleMemes 2 года назад

idk how true it is but i've heard that f-150s and similar trucks from the '90s are still in high demand because farmers want smaller trucks for actual work

@ChesireRavenlol 2 года назад

Landscapers can also get like a large bed on the truck for leaves and waste so they aren't wasting trailer space with waste, I also love mechanic service bodies. I'm personally tired of conventional beds myself, im to old to climb in it to get to my tool in the middle of my tool box lol.

@Sb129 2 года назад

99% of landscapers in AZ use a pickup truck of any kind with or without a trailer Oh and another way to tell if it is actually used like a truck is if it has dents, trucks for show have zero dents along with zero dirt. There are exceptions to this rule, I've seen shiny lifted trucks completely covered in mud and it isn't a super rare sight either.

@txikitofandango Год назад

I hope this video is finally getting some love. The follow-up that you did is (chef kiss)

@whalesequence 7 месяцев назад

The funny part is, if auto makers built smaller trucks, I would absolutely buy one. I don't like the oversized pickups of today since I feel like they're more form over function.

@Vlish 5 месяцев назад

I have a 2003 F-150, and the new Ford Ranger is the same size as my truck. I never really understood this. If the consumer wants the capability of a larger truck, they should get that truck. Not force the manufacturer to make the smaller truck bigger to handle that load.

@louisjov 8 месяцев назад

As someone who has worked construction for the last 7 years, trucks are very useful for specific things like hauling messy, irregular sized loads, and they're pretty good for towing, but other than that, service vans are absolutely more functional for everything else. TLDR Even most professional trades people aren't driving trucks on a daily basis for work

@bobbafett3050 5 месяцев назад

I see the farm argument a lot. For doing truck things around the (small) farm we have an assortment of trailers. Open top with a dumper for dirty jobs, flat bed for flat things and machinery, one with a pop up cover for cleaner jobs. They can all be towed with tractor or a regular van.

@karld1791 6 месяцев назад

American roads have an arms race of getting bigger and bigger vehicles to make the driver safer and everyone else less safe.

@ThomasGeist 2 года назад

It is actually amazing that even professional users put up with a mostly stupid and useless design, guzzling tons of gas, wasting several feet of real estate on the massive snout etc. Just check how much more modern and economic the majority of vehicles used by professionals in Europe is. Same vehicle length with double the bed length. And all this while using way more economical engines.

@KrystalessR Год назад

@@revivir1938Yeah, there is also not much there to protect you in the event of an accident. It also seemed silly that you had to tilt the entire cab to check fluids.

@ahmethakancoskun899 10 месяцев назад

@@revivir1938 source?

@patmanbnl Год назад

Nothing says Alpha male like buying a vehicle with the most jacked up price.

@ucmenteith 2 года назад

To me, the elephant in the room regarding pedestrian safety is brush guards and steel bumpers. Modern vehicles are engineered with bumpers that give way to protect pedestrians in low speed collisions, but all that engineering goes out the window when someone hangs a huge bull bar on the front. In some countries, these are actually outlawed, but not here.

@kilpatds 2 года назад

Also "trucks" are usually/frequently exempted from the pedestrian safety standards. Otherwise those huge flat grills at face level wouldn't pass.

@tonywalters7298 2 года назад

@@kilpatds Trucks, in general, are held to less stringent safety standards in north america than passenger cars

@SofaKingShit 2 года назад

Leaving oneself completely vulnerable to a ghastly collision with any of the herds of errant cattle that might wander the freeways? You environmental types sure have the wackiest ideas.

@austinhernandez2716 2 года назад

@@SofaKingShit that alone tells us everything about you. I've lived in the countryside nearly my entire life near a small rural town. And I've never seen cattle in the road before. I also travel in the highway regularly. What you have to look out for here is deer. And you're further proving our point actually. Why do you need a truck for long distance traveling on the highway? They're less fuel efficient, so you're just wasting money.

@jcfailgamer7157 2 года назад

@@SofaKingShit Usually you buy them for pushing and to protect from brush, where I work not every truck has them so we have half the trucks having smashed up front ends.

@AbsolutePixelMaster 2 года назад

Reminds me of the time that I was walking across the street at a marked cross walk when a large truck came flying around the corner and nearly hit me. The driver swerved around me while yelling at me to "get off the road", albeit in less polite phasing.

@ChesireRavenlol 2 года назад

And thays never happened with a speeding car ever? All types of cars are driven by unsafe, ignorant and irresponsible people.

@AbsolutePixelMaster 2 года назад

@@ChesireRavenlol Of course not, the issue here though as presented in the video is that trucks are only exasperating the issues. Also, I fail to see where I praised cars. I'm all for a ruction of the use of personal vehicles of all types.

@pleasedontwatchthese9593 2 года назад

@@ChesireRavenlol It tends to be truck drivers more often, though 18wheeler drivers are nicer

@rudolphguarnacci197 2 года назад

@@pleasedontwatchthese9593 I think in the past they were nicer. Today, at least on interstates, a lot more of them don't seem to know what they're doing.

@thepinkestpigglet7529 2 года назад

When you're driving 35 in a 30 in the fog at night down a 2 lane road with hairpin turns and a guard rail on oen side and a wall of rock on the other, and a guy in a pick up truck comes up behind you and starts flashing his headlights at you.

@amandamunhoz6325 Год назад

I’m from Brazil and, although we can see some increase in the truck sizes, it is still rare to see them in big cities. Last year I travelled to the US for the first time and was shocked because of the size of uber cars!!!! Even in NYC. They are enormous

@ntdscherer Год назад

People like HVAC technicians usually use vans, not pickups. Pickups are basically good for towing, carrying very bulky or messy cargo, and projecting an image of manliness / insecurity.

@Airbender19 2 года назад

The thing that irks me the most about modern day pickups are the blind spots they create in parking lots when you're trying to back out.

@markroberts4809 2 года назад

The idea that you need to buy a pickup truck because you may have to haul something at some point really annoys me, people use the same logic when buying SUVs (that they can fit a lot of stuff in it for a trip). But 95% of the time these scenarios don't happen and the car is unutilized. This type of thinking certainly has to be manufactured by the car industry to sell big vehicles.

@LS-Moto 2 года назад

I believe in freedom and people should drive what they want to drive. But what I don't like is when people are coming up with bullshit reasons for driving their cars. At least be honest about it. The only reason 95% of people drive these big vehicles, be it SUVS or pick up trucks, is simply because they WANT to drive one. These cars are not necessary as a family car, neither do most people go offroad in the most bewildered places or haul heavy stuff for lets say, construction sites.

@imcopes 2 года назад

a lot of people get trucks just because they like the look of them. nothing wrong with that.

@Bertuzz84 2 года назад

@@LS-Moto I believe in freedom too. With that said i want to drive a big tank and shoot at people that get in my way. Muh freedumbz. Was a bit of a sarcastic way to explain that freedom ends where it interferes with other peoples safety and freedom. That includes vehicles that with gigantic engines that cause carcinogenic exhaust fumes.

@manilovefrogs__8842 6 месяцев назад

My retired dad swears me needs a truck his excuse is because “we have a house”

@suncitybooksgeraldton335 3 месяца назад

I have 6 houses and a van I can lock up my stuff and it stays dry if you are carrying sand and gravel regularly a tip truck maby but we use a trailer behind the van and can un hook it loaded and leave it on site and shovel into the mixer.

@colechapman6976 2 года назад

Older trucks that were once considered huge now look like midsized crossovers, that's crazy to me

@aquaticko 2 года назад

I feel like the only reason these vehicles aren't taxed to high heaven is as an implicit subsidy to the domestic automotive industry. The gas guzzler tax (modest as it is) doesn't even apply to them!

@nowiecoche 2 года назад

Trucks/SUVs have different fuel economy standards as regular cars. Those pickups really are off the hook in a way.

@gdrriley420 2 года назад

There is some talk of a millage tax which may include weight as a factor IE, the heavier and more you drive the more you pay

@aquaticko 2 года назад

@@nowiecoche Not just different standards. There's an extra tax at time of sale for cars that average

@CityNerd 2 года назад

Yeah, I didn't even get into that. The system of incentives is so out of whack.

@nunyabidness3075 2 года назад

@@CityNerd Absolutely. Yet neither party wants to fix them at all.

@Walkinfaaaast 5 месяцев назад

Some of the biggest assholes I have encountered on the road are those in those large trucks. They think they look cool, but they just look pathetic.

@CD-zd6zr Год назад

People who own pickup trucks are the same people complaining about fuel prices now.

@mogumede8211 6 месяцев назад

3:18 "let's be real, most pickup trucks are not bought for actual work purposes..." What?!?! Every single pickup truck is driving around with a *full load* of sailboat fuel.

@youweremymuse 2 года назад

I grew up on a farm with horses, so my family had a good reason to own a pickup. But all too often one of our cars would be in the shop and we'd be forced to use the truck as a primary vehicle. A handful of times I had the misfortune of having to drive it to school. I whiteknucked it the whole way there. I hate driving in general, and my 2010 Toyota Camry often feels too big. The fact that people *choose* to drive giant trucks in the suburbs or city is astounding to me. Why???

@myonen4402 5 месяцев назад

I am both a homeowner and a trades person. I have a real need for a pickup truck, however I am forced to use a minivan for that purpose rather than a pickup truck because I can no longer purchase one that is small enough to not be a hindrance yet capable of doing what I need it to do. Maybe it's partially my age, but I truly miss the small pickup segment

@dylanc6856 5 месяцев назад

So much of it is based on personality. People buying trucks generally don't care about anyone but themselves. Not all, but the majority.

@toddinde 7 месяцев назад

Pick up drivers are the worst, rudest drivers. The size of the vehicle makes them more aggressive.

@RobCabreraCh 2 года назад

As a truck owner, I have to agree here. I bought a Ram 1500 a few months ago. I bought it because I have been using my minivan to haul stuff around for a couple of years and the minivan always got the worst of it. They were definitely not designed to haul 500 kg of cement, for instance. Anyway, since I have my truck (which I absolutely adore), I have noticed exactly how unsafe it is for other people to be around me. The thing that made me notice this was one day when I was manouvering around in my driveway, my sister's compact car was perfectly parked in my blind spot. Now, my truck is very nice, it has tons of sensors and cameras to every angle you can imagine, so I knew the car was there. That being said, that stuff is all pretty new, like just about a decade new. I couldn't see that car parked in my mirrors because the tailgate is higher that the roof of the car. If there were no cameras in my truck, I wouldn't have been able to see thst car and I would have hit it. The other problem is other drivers. I have an above average ability for car control. I have been racing for a number of years and I have been in a fair share of motorsports accidents. That being said, I have been cutoff in the highway multiple times now. I am always paying attention to the body language of other cars around me, so I know that they are about to cut me off and always hit the brales before they do. If I didn't have that ability or if I was just stubborn enough to keep my position, I wouldn't be able to hit my brakes fast enough to stop and those cars cutting me off would be completely destroyed. My truck is taller and much heavier and wider so it is very stable. So yes, as a truck owner I definitely notice just how dangerous trucks are for other people on the road. I just hope every truck driver realizes that too.

@jpgale 2 года назад

My first pickup did not come with a backup camera, it was a factory option and I had actually ordered the kit at the time but in a parking lot (when it had to be my daily driver) I had a shorter adult I saw walk behind the truck and I did not see them over the tailgate. This scared me a lot, so thankful I wanted the backup camera, I would not have a truck with out one.

@STScott-qo4pw 2 года назад

"So yes, as a truck owner I definitely notice just how dangerous trucks are for other people on the road. I just hope every truck driver realizes that too"... they don't.

@kolkoki 2 года назад

Paying attention to the body language is not only rare, it's a hard thing to do well. I'm impressed about your ability to "predict" stupid behaviour. I totally can't. Props to you

@kornaros96 2 года назад

500kg is the rated payload of an E46 compact!

@dustyrusty75 2 года назад

Do urban golf courses next. Nothing says "productive land use" like taking up 150 acres of city real estate that will only be used by a few hundred people per day. Especially in temperate climates where it can only be used for half the year.

@herlescraft 2 года назад

didn't he already do that? i think it's his second video

@DannyLebsock 2 года назад

He already did: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Dhk7Y6NpJ9M.html

@dustyrusty75 2 года назад

@@DannyLebsock I guess I missed that one, thanks!

@jazzypaul75 7 месяцев назад

I’d blame car companies for this, too, though. I can’t imagine you’d complain about the new(ish) Ford Maverick. A vehicle so popular that Ford can’t keep up with demand. My wife is an avid gardener, is always hauling around mulch, soil and landscaping stuff, and I’ve wanted a small, old school Ford Ranger (not the bigger newer one) or a Maverick for years now, and I really miss the old Toyota and Nissan mini-trucks.

@HindkyrikoTheDegenerate Год назад

Friend who has a large truck: "Can I borrow $300? I'm late on bills and fuel is killing me right now" Me: "You don't use your truck for work, so quit bitching, sell your truck, buy something reasonable, and figure it out yourself" They don't like that for some reason

@niltomega2978 Год назад

These morons buy $60,000 dollar trucks with tiny beds and $900.00 monthly payments...INSANE

@clayton97330 2 года назад

I know pickup drivers who freely admit they pay the extra money for a truck so they'll be the bigger vehicle in a crash. "I pay for the safety."

@brianjonker510 2 года назад

You should advise them to buy a Mack because you can never have too much safety.

@sabretooth1997 2 года назад

I'm curious how that logic plays into those single-vehicle incidents that seem to have a disproportional involvement of pickups.

@NPAMike 2 года назад

@@sabretooth1997 even in a single vehicle accident you don't really suffer much damage. The way these trucks are built it will feel like a fender bender in a small car if you hit something headon

@coreysuffield 2 года назад

there is also the statistic that was recently talked about, bigger/heavier vehicles are actually more dangerous when colliding with stationary objects due to more mass/momentum

@notaword1136 2 года назад

Oh neat, now I can feel vindicated in my intese disposition against stupid, compensating, napoleon complex, stupid (again) hunks of dumb metal and the pure essence of a mid life crisis

@willjapheth23789 Год назад

A productive working man getting a utility vehicle is respectable, a man getting a utility vehicle to look like a productive working man is not. Atleast they often make it obvious when the truck is just for the looks when they jack it up a foot and a half and always have a spotless paint job.

@Russellviews 7 месяцев назад

My dad built houses from 1970 to 2006. He never used a pickup truck. It was always vans. You can keep your tools secured in a van. When it was time to get lumber or what not he used a trailer. I see many people doing in the service industry using trucks where it seem a van would be more practical.

@johns.8220 4 месяца назад

Trucks seem like they would most come in handy for transporting "dirty" materials like bags of concrete, mulch, soil, or straw/hay bales, things like that. For nearly anything else I would go for a cargo van.

@helenlittle7761 2 года назад

This video expresses my sentiments exactly as someone who drives a Prius in the petromasculine state of Texas

@empirestate8791 2 года назад

Gas tax (or VMT tax) should take weight and size into account since they cause disproportionately higher damage to the road infrastructure, take up more space, and have a higher chance of injuring others.

@nunyabidness3075 2 года назад

Fuel taxes already do that.

@frazierl7898 2 года назад

people with trucks already pay more than those without trucks. They're the most fuel inefficient, and almost always heavier than most commercial vehicles. So the horrible gas mileage results in more fuel being bought, which means they kinda do indirectly take weight and size into consideration.

@nunyabidness3075 2 года назад

@@frazierl7898 Notice that buy counting likes, the ignorant vastly outnumber the scientifically literate. And yet, I bet they ALL think they are the “most scienciest” ones. 😂🤣😂🤣

@frazierl7898 2 года назад

@@nunyabidness3075 exactly, people read it and don't think about it and just hit like

@Sb129 2 года назад

It's called buying more gas since it's heavier.

@mstmompj Год назад

Until 2020, we had a little 1995 Nissan pickup truck and it's amazing how many people would knock on our door asking if we were interested in selling it. There's a lot of demand out there for modest vehicles like that.

@cheems5643 2 года назад

As someone who’s always lived in American pick up country it’s safe to say they are the most dangerous drivers not because of size but they never use blinkers, they never miss exits (last minute jump from right lane) and on top of that they never drive below 50mph

@vinniezcenzo 2 года назад

I remember my dad and I did all our work hauling in our 2001 Dodge Caravan minivan. We could get a full brush mower in there along with all our tools. Very few people really need a truck.

@andrewbrown9672 2 года назад

And the minivan was 10-15 thousand cheaper…

@KellyS_77 2 года назад

@@andrewbrown9672 And you can live in it (the minivan) if you really have to.

@georgeh6856 Год назад

I used to live in Florida. I was walking on the sidewalk across the entrance to a CVS. A car in the left-hand lane at the last split-second decided to turn right into the CVS immediately behind another car already in the right lane going straight. The second car turned directly into me. I could not see him and he could not see me until he was right up to me. The only reason I lived is because he was driving an old Toyota Camry with a low hood, and I fell onto the top of his hood until he stopped and I fell to the ground. Had I gone underneath his car, I would not have survived. Pickup trucks are deadly.

@JokerG16 6 месяцев назад

what does a pickup truck have to do with your scenario? lol.

@georgeh6856 6 месяцев назад

@@JokerG16 You actually did a "lol" after reading my story how I was almost run down and killed by a vehicle. To be that cold and heartless, you must be from Florida. I am trying to figure out your point, that somehow pickup trucks are dangerous but any other vehicle is not. Or maybe it is just because I did not follow the rules you imposed that any comments which veer from the video topic in any way must be mocked and ridiculed. Apparently, you appointed yourself the chief enforcer of free speech on the Internet. In any case, trolls do not need a point to troll. Trolls do what they do because no one likes them in real life. The life of a troll is so bad, that he just sits alone and shitposts in reply to other people's comments. Trolls have nothing to offer society. Then again, you trolled my comment more than one year after I wrote it. So you aren't even good at being a troll. Get some help.

@JokerG16 6 месяцев назад

@@georgeh6856 dude all i did was ask a question this has nothing to do with free speech. also, i’m not from FL, although i love the Tampa/Clearwater area 😍 realistically tho, i am glad you’re okay, truthfully i am. maybe i shouldn’t have put the “lol” but i was just trying to soften the question so you don’t think i’m attacking with you.

@davedewitt18 7 месяцев назад

Tax the crap out of them

@gdrriley420 2 года назад

The decline market of wagons in the US has always been odd to me. The fill the same passenger needs as a sedan while at the same time if you really need to move a lot of stuff you can drop the rear seats and carry a large amount of cargo, not as tall as a small SUV but often longer loads, both are also super easily to put roof racks or roof rails onto for things like camping, bikes ect. They also typically don't weight much more than sedans.

@maleahlock 2 года назад

This!! Yes.

@CityNerd 2 года назад

It's interesting to me that the "minivan" (what's "mini" about it?) is SORT OF the replacement for the wagon, usually lighter weight and built on a modified sedan chassis, but the culture has managed to feminize it, etc.

@gdrriley420 2 года назад

@@CityNerd the mini vans are just as big and as heavy as a truck. often they are just as large as a full size van. they are at least more useful then the large crossovers which are the same size but hold less. most minivans made in the last 20 years weight like 6-7,000lbs

@danielkelly2210 2 года назад

Wagons had to meet car fuel standards, SUVs are technically “trucks”, and trucks do not.

@gdrriley420 2 года назад

@@danielkelly2210 last I looked most wagons are right in line or maybe 1-2MPG worse than their sedan counterparts.

@UrbaneOracle 2 года назад

I just moved to the South. So many cute small towns with trucks that seem comically oversized and overly-loud when they glug glug their way along the high street.

@danielkelly2210 2 года назад

I used to be an auto loan officer... as some guy once told me, he needed a huge truck because otherwise people in his community wouldn't respect him.

@vultureguy33 5 месяцев назад

Amongst those few pickup trucks actually doing pickup truck things, I'm going to take a wild guess that it was the oldest and smallest ones, not the super big new clean ones. In my experience it's the oldest smallest ones ever doing anything, except for the occasionally new one towing a fancy boat or whatever.

@frankducett9 11 месяцев назад

I was hit broadside by an SUV in 2021, thrown 25 feet, my bicycle went 74 feet. After I got out of the hospital and out of the walker, off the cane, I got a new bike and got back out there. Whenever my wife would see a monster truck with a 12 inch exhause pipe.. she would hold her thumb and first finger about 2 inches apart, and laugh. The big wheels at Ford and Chevy etc are avoiding strict CAFE standards, it's all about the money. If I ever do again buy a motor vehicle it will be a MASH Jeep.

@highway2heaven91 2 года назад

A little off topic for this video but I love the fact that channels like yours exist on YT. It lets me know that not everyone agrees with the car-centered lifestyle that it seems like everyone in North American supports nowadays. I honestly haven’t met that many urbanists outside of the internet and although there are many articles that mention that younger generations are ditching the car, it just seems like most around me are immune to that trend. Getting back on topic, thanks for knocking the pickup truck. It seems like it’s more of a cultural need for most N Americans more than anything else.

@mariusvanc 2 года назад

Really? Everywhere I turn, someone's screaming in my face that I'm killing the planet if I drive anything that burns dead dinosaurs, or, increasingly often, that isn't powered by my own legs. What world do you live in.

@carstarsarstenstesenn 2 года назад

@@mariusvanc You're obviously exaggerating quite a bit but I've been driving for years and I've never experienced what you're describing. Occasionally someone will remind me that I'm polluting the planet, and I tell them I only drive when I need to--otherwise I will bike because I enjoy biking, or I'll take public transit if it's convenient. What world do *you* live in?

@KendallFreeman2020 2 года назад

@@mariusvanc sounds like a liberal city

@KendallFreeman2020 2 года назад

what do you drive though

@karenwang313 2 года назад

My problem with urbanists is their irrational hatred for cars. They seem to think they live in a world where either its suburban america or inner city paris with no in between. I'm pretty sure most of these guys have never rode on public transportation because they'd change their tune real fast if they knew how much it really sucks. Believe me, I exclusively used public transit for the 5 years I was in college.

@richardcoughlin8931 2 года назад

In my younger years I owned a Ford F250 pick up truck that had huge tires and terrible gas mileage. But it was able to accommodate a heavy camper that I lived in for a summer. That episode aside, I owned a small Toyota pick up truck for several years, driving from New Mexico to California for three summers with two dogs and no air conditioning (enjoy 115° in Needles CA sometime and you will appreciate what I was willing to go through). Now that I am an old fogey who drives a plug-in hybrid I note that most of the aggressively bad drivers on the roads in my corner of Southern California are pickup trucks. It’s probably the case that as a percentage of vehicles that crawl up my ass and swerve around to cut me off (causing me to shake my fist and curse mightily) pick up trucks are no more aggressive than other categories there are simply more of them, thus their infractions are more noticeable.

@brianjonker510 2 года назад

I think the explanation for noticing pickups as aggressive drivers is from the demographic that often owns them.

@Jacob_graber 2 года назад

Large vehicle drivers, ESPECIALLY pickup truck drivers, are the most aggressive people on the road, by design. I think this is a fact. I don't agree with your guess that your observation is due to a bias to notice truck drivers driving aggressively more often than other types of vehicle. I think you are seeing an actual, significant difference, and that drivers of large vehicles are actually more aggressive. I'm a guy who also drives a small hybrid now but I used to drive an SUV and occasionally borrow my dad's king cab F-150 when I need to move big stuff. When I drive that truck, the experience is remarkably different. First, you're much higher up, so you can see further ahead, and you're going to feel like traffic is an obstacle to get around instead of something that you are a part of. After all, you can see the big clear road way ahead of you. Next, your vehicle has a gross excess of power intended for towing, which means that you constantly feel like you are not making full use of the vehicle. (Mentally, you KNOW you aren't making use of what you've got) You're barely touching the pedal to accelerate, and slow drivers and slow maneuvers are a waste of time when you have nearly 4 liters of displacement. Next, you have a lot more distance between you and the ground. The parallax effect makes you *feel* like you're going much slower than you are, so you naturally feel more comfortable going faster. As a hybrid driver I also think hybrid drivers are shit on American roads for almost the same reason: by design. Everything about a hybrid encourages efficiency. Slow braking, slow acceleration, coasting. It's antithetical to the overwhelming attitude of American drivers which is: faster, more power, more aggressive. Do I think hybrid drivers are the problem? Not really. Huge, wide, straight roads and massive vehicular boats with ridiculous power and weight are the problem. I desperately want to live somewhere with a functional transit system.

@richardcoughlin8931 2 года назад

@@brianjonker510 I estimate that 90% of the rabid bumper stickers, window decals and flags I see on the roads are on pick up trucks.

@richardcoughlin8931 2 года назад

@@Jacob_graber I made a point to avoid sampling bias in making the observations about aggressive, dangerous trucks cutting me off. But maybe it’s just the case that they are actually more aggressive and dangerous drivers. Quite a few construction workers start work very early in the day and takeoff around 3 or 4 PM to get a drink. Or who knows If they’ve been drinking all day. My sister-in-law‘s ex-husband fit into this category - a complete asshole on the road (and off it). It’s hard for me to separate my personal experience from valid systemic observation.

@richardcoughlin8931 2 года назад

@@brianjonker510 Quite possible. See my reply to Jacob Graber.

@BobQuigley 2 года назад

Home Depot etc rents a pickup for $18.99 for an hour or so. Load your stuff, take it home, return truck....

@13noman1 Год назад

Really enjoy and appreciate your work -- even painful content like this. My wife and I have regularly decried to each other the proliferation of mammoth pick up trucks here abouts, used by people for commuting!

@CityNerd Год назад

It's crazy stuff!

@jasonmcentire3738 2 года назад

I enjoy the content but I'm going to challenge the premise. Comparing modern full size pickups to 80's era compact pickups does NOT show the increase in size of the pickup. Compare them to the full size pickups from Ford, GM, and Dodge. You can probably still make the argument but comparing a 2022 F150 to a 1982 Datsun B series pickup is not a valid comparison. Compare apples to apples. That would mean that old Datsun to a current Ford Maverick or Nissan Frontier. It would mean an old F150 to a current model.

@kennyhughes3880 2 года назад

He obviously doesn't like vehicles and is trying to push public transport. Not everyone wants to take public transport or drive tiny shitty cars.

@Death_is_Beauty 2 года назад

Yeah, this video reeks of confirmation bias and cheery picked points.

@marcscattolin1554 2 года назад

One of his big points is that more people are buying pickups 1:50

@Santor- Год назад

Where they have gotten larger is mainly in becoming 4 doors and more lifted. Other dimensions are really pretty similar.

@lklpalka 2 года назад

Totally on board with those who need them for work but as you say, most don't. $6 gal. gas may reshape the enthusiasm for large vehicles.

@kornaros96 2 года назад

Unless 2$/L that don't gonna change. And even then, there's the electrics. How do you crack down on the electric brodozers?

@KapitanPisoar1 2 года назад

I need mine for my free time...

@niltomega2978 Год назад

I work on a military base of 27,000 people and the parking lots are full of these oversized Tonka trucks with tiny beds. Many have heavy lids on the beds so you cannot even put anything in it without going through a lot of effort to remove it first. Then they pay huge amounts for these gas guzzling useless beasts. I don't get it

@TheBibliotekker Год назад

Loved this video and had to watch it again. I live in truck country here in the Dakotas and like to joke that the farm trucks I grew up with could fit inside the super sized ones of today. Also, I would love to see a video on best community garden/urban farm/farmers market cities since I am a bit of a community garden and urban farm nut. Keep up the great videos.

@knutthompson7879 2 года назад

I have heard so many people say the prime motivation for buying a huge vehicle is that, "If I'm in a wreck, I win," a sentiment I find psychopathic.

@MariahIsSkinnyFuckBlueLives 2 года назад

Microcosm of the general American attitude "well there's food on my plate so I don't care if you're starving"

@trillmixin6999 2 года назад

wait till they crash into another big vehicle. the energy transfer from two 2.5 ton vehicles is not going to be pretty for each party involved

@tekuaniaakab2050 2 года назад

Love the depressing content. Suggest you rank urban parks in North America based on size, accessibility, and integration into the city landscape. Kinda like a mix between the aqueduct and stadiums rankings.

@GMC_K1500 Месяц назад

You're not wrong. I once tried to bypass the Indianapolis metropolitan area, but unfortunately, there was a wreck that rerouted all eastbound traffic, into downtown Indy. What made things worse was it was 5pm hour on a Friday. It was a nerve-wracking experience I will NEVER live through again if I don't have to. Needless to say, I agree pickup trucks that are not local and are not fleet use, should bypass congested Metropolitan areas. Fellow pickup truck owners, DISCLAIMER: This is my point of view. So if you're offended by it, that's on you. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@GordonPavilion 2 месяца назад

ESV Emotional Support Vehicle Picked that up from your RU-vid channel…love it!

@cooljonathan 2 года назад

I absolutely loathe people who drive cars bigger than they need, but also I drive a minivan that is seldom full.

@Thakar98 2 года назад

Compared to SUVs and pickups, at least minivans maximize in the utility to size ratio and are significantly safer for pedestrians

@trillmixin6999 2 года назад

make minivans great again

@JerEditz 2 года назад

To me who drives a pretty low riding hatchback, being next to a pickup truck is night and day. I feel like my Brother's F-150 can just roll over my 3hatchback without scratching his car, but the tech in my hatchback is much more people oriented :P

@sarat6488 Год назад

fun fact: the pedals on the for F-350 are spaced further apart than usual to accommodate the owner's enormous CLOWN SHOES

@Covdova 15 дней назад

The thing as well with large pick-up trucks that are lifted off the ground, that actually loading cargo into the back is a nightmare, cause the bed is too high

@neurofiedyamato8763 2 года назад

I noticed how massive they gotten too. They also would worsen traffic I'd imagine by taking up even more road space than normal cars already do. Also a significant issue here is the disparity in bumper height. When a collision happen it i ideal that the bumpers of both vehicles are in contact absorbing the impact. But pick up trucks have gotten so tall their bumpers are above the smaller car's bumpers, bypassing a significant part of the crumple zone. Remember back when body builders could actually tilt a car over?

@rogersmith7396 2 года назад

Thats set by law. But many owners defeat bumper height. It also misaims headlights which is an issue around here. Some of the trucks are lit up like freight trains.

@DeadCat-42 9 месяцев назад

Can't buy a real pickup anymore. I tried. I went to a dealer and said I want to buy a truck. He pointed to the suvs with tiny beds added , I said no I want a TRUCK you don't have any .. All they had was these absurd oversized (but useless) SUV things. It's a bad combo I call them a Suck. SUV / truck

@james-p Год назад

They don't even market pickup trucks to tradesmen anymore. The marketing is aimed at lightweight men who need a truck to compensate for other... things. The vehicles for actual tradesmen these days seem to be vans. They even have small vans for guys who work in the city. Unless you're hauling dirty junk, vans are better than pickups anyway. Your tools are inside out of the weather, you get a longer cargo area (even in the small ones), you can have shelves in there, etc. You can still tow a trailer and put a ladder rack on them, too, if needed.

@shillwaffer2105 2 года назад

Wagons > pick ups

@terriblethomas2186 Год назад

Wow!.... You've made me ashamed to take my Toyota Tacoma TRD Sport out of the garage. A few caveats to ponder though. 1.) I watch your videos on a semi-daily basis (and have long since clicked the "subscribe" button). 2.) I am a retired fuel hauler. All the vehicles in my former employer's parking area were these kind of vehicles. 3.) I am a cheapskate. More often than not, I am driving my 2010 VW Jetta because it gets twice the MPG of the truck. 4.) I am also a runner AND a cyclist. I guess I have a foot in 3 different worlds. 5.) Watching this video has amplified the voice that has been in my head advocating that I sell my pick up.

@4Solon Год назад

Sell it! Sell sell sell! Make yourself some money and get yourself something you'll use.

@DanielBrotherston Год назад

Most HVAC technicians--in fact most tradespeople--much prefer vans because they provide security and protection for their valuable tools.

@BreadFred3 Год назад

Never understand people who have one but doesn't work in manuel labor or use it for commercial uses.

@GNF54 Год назад

I think it’s supposed to make them look “manly” and “badass”

@tubro541 Год назад

You can win the arms race by just riding in a bus. Public transit buses are much tougher than most pickups, as I was in the accidents.😊

@johnyoung1601 8 месяцев назад

The sad thing is that this arms race is dangerous to pedestrians too. It's too bad that being a pedestrian is intentionally made dangerous and public transportation is made difficult by piggish countries.

@Trenz0 7 месяцев назад

Unfortunately, bus isn't a reasonable option in most places

@AlecLomas 2 года назад

another reason why EVs aren’t the future of transport: they weigh quite a bit more than their ICE counterparts, with an increased level of acceleration to boot. we’re replacing the dangers from exhaust emissions for increased road wear and an incredible amount of risk to folks on foot, bicycles, or even just in smaller cars

@Jacob_graber 2 года назад

That increased weight also increases risk to pedestrians, and even more, they're ironically loud for a technology that no longer uses contained explosions on board. There was a great segment by Not Just Bikes, who measured the volume of cars driving through their neighborhood. The electric vehicles, even just sedans, were remarkably loud as well because of the increased tire noise due to increased vehicle weight.

@lookingforsomething 2 года назад

Indeed, public transport and cycling is where it's at (in cities anyhow).

@NeonNion 2 года назад

Higher weight also increases the wear and tear on car tyres, which increases the amount of microplastics released from the tyres. Average tyre loses 4kg during its lifetime. Compare that to averege bike tyre that weight like 1kg at max and lasts just as if not longer. Moverover, wind-borne microplastics are a bigger source of ocean pollution than rivers.

@JonathanRockway 2 года назад

EVs really don't solve many problems. We'll still need 16 lane highways and half the downtown as parking lots to make EVs work. The promise of self-driving cars tells us that cars will magically disappear to wonderland when nobody is driving them, eliminating parking problems. This seems extremely unlikely to me. What I think is funny is that to make cities walkable, we'd have to rebuild them, and that's too hard. But of course we razed and rebuilt cities to accommodate the car, so obviously it's possible to do.

@CityNerd 2 года назад

Yes, it's a crazy time right now.

@EllieODaire 2 года назад

Why yes, depressing and sarcastic analysis of modern transportation issues is exactly my thing.

@ivantuma7969 5 месяцев назад

Every dude who works an office job (or Costco floor manager), lives vicariously as a General Building Contractor through their pickup. They may not have freedom, but they want to look like they do. To break the trend - maybe constantly have Taylor Swift, and Kim Kardashian driving around in lifted Carolina Squat, 2500 series pickups while rolling coal, and a great big picture of Dylan Mulvaney on the sides and a rainbow painted on the hood, while at the same time all the MMA fighters switch to Fiats, Hondas and EV dujour.

@fauxhugh380 7 месяцев назад

These Gen X Office Worker Cosplay Trucks SCREW OVER the actual working man by sucking away inventory and market share from people who would actually use a truck.

@urbanderek 2 года назад

Every four months my dad really wants a pickup truck claiming we could use it to hall heavy things, but my mom knows if he ever got it, he would never use it for that cause that would dirty it up. There are a lotta pickup truck owners who like to keep it clean and tidy and I don’t get it.

@UserName-ts3sp 2 года назад

well have you seen the tech in these things?

@NPAMike 2 года назад

Have you seen the modern day pickups they probably have more tech inside it than most luxury cars.

@ryanvinklarek8080 2 года назад

Well if you spend money on something I imagine you want to keep it clean

@kennethobando5755 2 года назад

I do. Even my fathers does his daily work truck clean as a pin. Thats what trailers and beds are for. Semi trucks work and are almost all kept spic and span clean. Why would the pickup be any different?

@hart-of-gold 2 года назад

One reason the large "trucks" (we say utes, though a proper ute has a carlike cab) are unpopular in Australia, is normal car class licences only allow GVM (Gross Vehicle Mass) of 4500kg.

@namenamename390 2 года назад

In Germany, it's even lower. A standard car license allows for 3500kg at most. Don't know how it is in the rest of Europe, but I don't think there are huge differences.

@Jacob_graber 2 года назад

4500kg is nearly 10,000 pounds, five tons, which is way higher than most large pickups, which weigh usually half of that or less. That means any American pickup would still fall under GVM limitations for normal cars, so I don't think that's the reason.

@hart-of-gold 2 года назад

GVM in Australia includes a towed load if possible, and full design payload. The only ones I have seen here are for boating and their GVM are in the 5000- 6000kg range.

@Banom7a 2 года назад

@@namenamename390 similar here in Malaysia, although it is unladen weight, so I could drive a 3-ton cabover truck if its empty

@Sb129 2 года назад

4500kg???? You mean 9900 lbs? What pickup truck weighs that much? "includes a towed load" The whole point of the video is people almost never use their truck like that, I doubt it's much different over there.

@tedecker3792 2 месяца назад

I’m still driving a 30 year old mini truck (Nissan) because it perfectly meets my needs. Useful sized bed, single cab bench seat and great mileage. And it still runs perfectly.

@warmstrong5612 5 месяцев назад

The older and smaller pick ups were great, did most everything you needed a pick up to do and used less fuel to do it. Now everything's supersized and there's no variety in choice anymore. Bring back actually compact pick ups.

@AlexBlack-xz8hp Год назад

As someone who lives in rural Oregon... I can say there are some rare times it'd be nice to have a truck, but 95%+ of the time I don't need one. For clarity I don't own a truck. I could simply borrow or rent one on the occasions I need it. It also seems to be a strange part of peoples identity especially where I live. Never understood it to be honest. They are also a complete nuisance in parking lots.

@theawesome224 2 года назад

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@korysovec Месяц назад

Isn't it weird how these uber-expensive luxury vehicles are somehow considered the "people's car" while someone in much cheaper VW passat is considered posh.