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Before long, it'll be all grill and drivers won't be able to see which direction they're going. (startrek.website)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] [S] 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

This seems counterintuitive

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because car companies send lobbyists to Congress and pay to influence bills.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    At the time the law was passed, the carve out was for work trucks which made a minority of the market. Possibly less than 10%, but they also put tariffs on the light trucks imported from Asia, and so now almost 30 years later we have the situation we've got now.

    We need to revoke the tariffs on the light trucks for normal people.

    Also make it so you have to have a business licence to buy them, and a CDL to drive these "work trucks"

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Does anyone make light trucks anymore? Even Toyotas are 3x bigger than they used to be.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Isuzu still has a light truck division, and the Asian market still has loads of smaller vehicles, we just need to get off this "tank obsession" here in the US

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Someone must be. Every time I am in Asia I see mini pickups. Would love to have one for my work.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I looked everywhere for a truck of normal size when I was truck shopping. Midsized trucks are bigger now than full sized trucks were when I was younger. The only way to get a small one in the USA is to buy something that's old.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    because they didn't want to piss off the blue-collar demographic, they're a huge voting block and drive trucks for work.

    that's politics for you. creating nonsensical laws that aren't made to fix problems, but only to curry favor, be that with voters, lobbyists, whatever

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  • [+] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Yes. A lot of the people who drive trucks do so because "I'm a big boy! Listen to me make lots of noise in my big lifted truck! Vroom Vroom!!"

    If people are actually using it for a small business or whatever, sure, I'll live, but most of the people who buy them are just buying them because they want people to know their dicks are small.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Should be to work. I work in an office and about 25% drive trucks to work. Not one of then tow, off road or carry anything in the back, but will definitely pay 125k thanks to loans on their big boy diesel truck.

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