• @[email protected]
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    57 months ago

    You have to realize that semi trucks are built different. Think of it closer to a bulldozer than a pickup. It’s not designed to crumple into origami to absorb the force of impact. It’s a heavy industrial piece of equipment that’s designed to haul assloads of product with 3 or 4 assloads of horsepower. It’d be pointless to subject such vehicles to the same or even similar tests.

    • Pons_Aelius
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      77 months ago

      we are not talking about semis. we are taking about mall crawlers.

    • @RubberElectrons
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      7 months ago

      You’d still think of verifying energy mitigation/redirection for impact into other vehicles, no?

      Like it should be required that there’s something to keep a car from going under a trailer’s wheels if they merge into the side of a truck. How do you verify that’s working properly?

        • @Soggy
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          27 months ago

          They did put that bar on the back of all trailers after Jayne Mansfield died crashing into a semi at night.

      • @[email protected]
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        17 months ago

        Nah lmao. Big truck pull hard no stop. As long as it does all those things, fuck everything else

        • @RubberElectrons
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          17 months ago

          😬 I don’t like that line of thinking haha

          • @[email protected]
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            27 months ago

            Just pretend it’s mad max and you are fighting for the last drops of guzzoline every time you leave the house, as is right and proper with the Lord.

            • @RubberElectrons
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              17 months ago

              Do we get free silver spray paint? The answer had better be hell yes.