SilentWorld

Of course sedans are going to get better mileage and produce less CO2 than crossovers/SUV's. I always find it funny when people try to act like this isn't the case. Invariably they are either comparing a much older sedan to a new SUV/crossover or they're comparing a sedan driven by someone with a lead foot to an SUV/crossover driven with fuel economy in mind. SUV's have a higher seat height which creates poorer aerodynamics, this plus the increased drag caused by higher weight and AWD are two factors that you can't really get around. I mean you can try to minimize the losses, but an SUV is never going to get better gas mileage than a comparable sedan.

This sounds like a design issue to me. My Freightliner m2, despite being a legit “gigantic truck” as you put it, has as good (maybe even better) visibility than half ton trucks. If Europe has such regulations and USA doesn’t, then they should be changed. I’ll also note that @DarkStar189 pointed out that it wasn’t just big trucks/SUV’s hitting the rock in OP but it was people with smaller cars as well — this seems to suggest less an issue with big vehicles and more likely an issue with people lacking the visual spatial awareness to understand where their vehicle is in relation to their surroundings. We don’t need more rigorous testing for pickup trucks — we need more rigorous testing for ALL vehicles.

The thing that I DO have a problem with is a the guys pulling 40 foot fifth wheel trailers. I'm not 100% sure about the USA, but here you can pull a camper trailer with a regular license and I think that's just stupid. There's absolutely no education on how to handle a trailer in driver's ed, and no one gets tested on that. I think that's freaking stupid because pulling a trailer requires a whole different skill set that you CANNOT learn until you start pulling a trailer. I've watched my brother in law try to back up a trailer (fortunately he was just pulling one of those tiny pop up campers) and it's just sad. I would go as far as saying that I think to pull any sort of trailer should require some sort of extra endorsement on your license.

I really can't agree with this. Firstly, there's nothing particularly special about an F350 compared to a half ton except it has heavier duty suspension and tires. It's generally going to be the same exterior dimensions as any other full size truck and therefore not any harder to handle... but saying "you can take your license in a hatchback and then drive a pickup truck" wouldn't really make it sound like such a problem. The problem isn't really that someone takes their test in an Echo and then can drive an F350 IMO. The mechanics of driving an F350 are the same as the mechanics of driving an Echo. I'd argue it's actually easier to handle an F350 in some ways because the increased viewing distance (due to the higher seat height) should give you more awareness of what's going on further ahead. The problem is that a driver's test in no way establishes that you can competently handle your own vehicle. The test only really shows that you understand the traffic laws to a basic level and that you have a very, very, basic competency in maneuvering a vehicle. The problems start showing up when people get into a vehicle that is much bigger than their used to. Someone goes from a small hatchback to a full size pickup truck and now their vehicle takes up almost an entire parking space instead of only a third. Now they have to be more precise and they struggle because they never had to before, and they don't have the skills to fall back on to be more precise. If it were up to me I'd add several other reversing exercises on top of the parallel parking exercise for a road test. Perhaps for example reversing for roughly 100 feet in a straight line without weaving while maintaing a speed of roughly 10 km/hr, navigating some sort of S curve in reverse and maybe a low speed slalom in reverse. I'm sure someone that has studied driver training could come up with better ideas but my main point is this: To do a good job reversing your vehicle requires a good understanding of the exact physical space your vehicle occupies and how turning the steering wheel causes your vehicle to change position, and most people just struggle at truly grasping that. Many people never grasp that. But once you grasp that, you shouldn't have much problem going from a hatchback to even a 40 foot travel RV (and definitely no problem going to a F350).

Apparently he said “that’s impossible.” I’m not sure if he thought it was impossible that she was 25 years old or that the average age of parliament was 49.

Shut the fuck up Randy

ELI5 community land trust.

Oh yeah good point that’s plausible.

This is what makes me think it’s sensationalized. Is there actually someone out there that agreed at the beginning teeth pulling is okay and is now walking around missing teeth? Can you even legally agree to be maimed like that?

It could actually be a good thing if Roe v Wade is overturned because people might finally realize what’s at stake and start voting.

this but unironically

Lolno. This is gonna be canada’s Obama moment and next election the conservatives will have a firey ball of rage as their leader. And they’ll win.

lol it's already happening with the boomers and boomers at heart on my twitter feed.

The ONLY good thing is we don’t have a Scheer government. But other than that I hate everything else that has happened.

I hope the knives come out for Scheer and Trudeau

thank god

Is Singh the pm yet?

Fuck Mattis. It’s a fucking circus act and he chose to be a part of it. And for that matter fuck everyone being like “oh look at this general dunking on Trump.”

Is there reason to think the BQ would prefer a CPC government? I thought BQ was pro carbon tax.

oh no this is the one thing I didn’t want to happen

What did May say about abortion? I could only listen to parts of it because I was working.

Is there examples of whistleblowers that have been treated similar to this man/women as far as being offered protection/not having to flee the country?

Good points from Matt Taibbi.

why do the democrats suck so much.

I love beer. The smell of beer gets my mouth watering. I’ll sip on rye whiskey sometimes and wine is okay. Other than that I don’t really like any other liquors.