If you drive a pickup like this, you have made an arbitrary choice to kill the next person you accidentally hit.
I've never accidentally hit any pedestrian and I don't know anyone that has either. How many pedestrians is this person running over?
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2026
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I've never accidentally hit any pedestrian
You psycho.
Ok then well just make sure to switch your vehicle to one that won't kill a pedestrian before you have your first accident :)
Lol, I drive a shitty 14 year old car that will not get replaced until I have to and even then I refuse to buy the new spyware crap. I honestly have no idea what my next vehicle will be but I know I hate these big ass vehicles.
8-9 years ago I was nearly killed by one of these with an extra lift. I was in a sedan, stopped behind them. Someone texting rear ended me going ~45 mph. I hit my head on the steering wheel, and was pushed towards the truck from the momentum. Fortunately I didn't lose consciousness, and turned the wheel hard. I ended up grinding the full length of their driver side. It was a 2 lane road with oncoming traffic, luckily nobody was there at the time. If I stopped closer or didn't turn the wheel, my car would have gone right under and into the trucks bed and I might have been killed.
It scares me how many of these fucking useless trucks there are everywhere. Fuck them and fuck people on their phones.
Maybe we should move away from using cars for literally everything?
"Things shouldn't get better unless they're perfect!"
Why are you just repeating me verbatim?
That makes me so angry, you were almost killed so some idiot could have their cool truck/pickup that they like purely for aesthetics (hence high hood that looks cool).
Buy a minivan and drive those trucks in a video game, it is incredibly immature to buy one of those in real life if you drive anywhere near civilization.
Don't be so cismisandrist; cis men need gender affirming care too!
These people buy them explicitly to kill the other guy and call that "safety".
The best defense!
These vehicles are murderous, their rise in popularity represents a visual indicator of the vanishing social contract in the US.
DO NOT BUY A VEHICLE LIKE THIS, otherwise one day you will be staring at a dead kid you just hit with your stupid truck you can't see out the front of.
You will not be able to see the child you murder. It'll be fine. You won't even notice if you hit it on the way to the car wash!
Most people are so emotionally cowardly they would resolve the cognitive dissonance in a way to blame anyone and everyone else. "It's not my fault!"
These oversized cars should be illegal.
And if I saw someone vandalizing one, no I didn't.
If I saw someone cutting the brake lines or attaching a bomb to one, no I didn't.
And if I saw someone vandalizing one, no I didn't.
Same.
the cameras and facial tracking will though
$3 baklava
Oh shit, where?
seriously... that's some damn cheap baklava
I know a place near me that had it but the pieces were tiiiiiny and not the best. Still like every day.
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