• @[email protected]
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        65 days ago

        Fairly certain the suspension would not be needed when you liquify a human being under the tracks

    • @[email protected]
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      76 days ago

      NICE. I would like to see the Cybertruck and BYD vehicles added, among others, but I will definitely take a broader chart over a cherry-picked up-to-date one!

  • @carl_dungeon
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    Now what about if you’ve lifted the front about 2 feet and lower the back? That’s big these days.

  • @DarkSurferZA
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    Lol, it took me a second to figure out this chart.

    I was wondering where the hell am I reasonably expecting to encounter a 2.5 meter tall 5 year old…

  • @remer
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    American trucks need American units 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🚀💥💦

      • @Bytemeister
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        Terrible.

        1/63rd Furlongs to see a 1000 caliber 36 month old from the drinking seat of a light duty American truck.

        Source: an actual American.

  • Obinice
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    Those huge American style lorries are mental at the front. They look cool, but what a wild blind spot.

    Check out European lorries (like those in Euro Truck Sim for example), the cab ends at the window. Still a powerful beast but compact, and with fewer blind spots. So much easier to drive.

    Still some blind spots though, be careful round em :-D

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    I’d go for the Abrams if it didn’t have such bad fuel economy. Then again, I guess it’s good to get out of a traffic jam.

      • @hakunawazo
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        Make sure you try that before in front of a mirror like in Taxi Driver for convincing results.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what Eddie Hall(former world strongest man) did. At least he drove over someone else’s car before.

    • @[email protected]
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      Hmm, could you electrify an Abrams? I wonder if there would be a way to make it street legal, given that’s it’s not so much different from a large SUV at this point.

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          Yes! And you can dump any removable armour, because road rage incidents rarely involve calibers larger than 55.

    • @[email protected]
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      I can tell you’re not American because we consider fuel economy to work like golf, the lower the number the better.

  • @hakunawazo
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    I wasn’t aware with my European mind that you can call an Abrams uber there. Wow.
    Seems like the perfect solution for a lot of urban problems.

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      Make sure you specify what kind of firearm you want with the uber order, otherwise you could get something stupid.

  • @[email protected]
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    What about the lower-profile Warsaw Pact tanks? Are they safer to drive around small children?

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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      176 days ago

      “They are made for small children, that’s why they have an ammo carousel!”

      *slaps turret and gets blown up by random bolted-on Kontakt ERA

    • @[email protected]
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      They’re actually really good for this, none of the crew had any jolt or bounce injuries after either Budapest or Tienanmen.

      You’d have to file a 285 if you tried to pull that in a sherman.

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    My take from this is rear engine vehicles are the safest to drive around small children.

    Lambo it is.

    • @[email protected]
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      TBF, the type of vehicle doesn’t really matter. If you want to murder someone, do it with a car and just claim you didn’t see the person, that you are shocked, and it’s just an “accident”. Nobody will question this.

      • @IsThisAnAI
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        Do that, I dare you, see how it actually works out for you 🤣

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          I don’t have a license nor a car so it might be more suspicious in the first place. I also don’t want to murder anybody. But seeing how our society considers deaths cause by cars as normal and unavoidable “accidents”, I’ll probably still have more chances of getting away with it.

          Like, sorry, I didn’t see them, I’m just learning, it was an accident. The person just jumped in front of the car, in dark clothing, with no reflective gear.

          https://www.vice.com/en/article/you-can-kill-anyone-you-want-with-your-car-as-long-as-you-dont-really-mean-it/

          https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328812169_If_You_Want_to_Get_Away_with_Murder_Use_Your_Car_A_Discursive_Content_Analysis_of_Pedestrian_Traffic_Fatalities_in_News_Headlines

          Deaths caused by cars are horribly normalized.

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            Go ahead try it. You’ve linked an opinion piece and a paper on news headlines. You didn’t just Google those and then linked then before fully understanding in order to try and win an Internet agreement did you? You also ignore that the overall clearance rate for murder starts under 50% and convictions below 30 right, but you expect that to be a higher clearance for bikes?

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              No, I linked those because I have had this argument for years now and it’s tiresome. People driving cars can clearly get away with much more than if they were not in a car.

              The last incident I just read about was a cyclist that was killed by someone in a car. He was in a group of 10 and the driver claims she didn’t see him. No charges, it was “obviously” an accident. Someone is dead, killed by someone driving a car, and it’s no biggie. It’s just an “accident”.

              So, whatever the clearance, either it’s a huge pickup or a sedan, it doesn’t really matter if the driver can see people in front of them or not, they can just say they didn’t see them, it’s an “accident”.

              There are indeed statistics on how clearance and the height of a vehicle can be more deadly, but again, it doesn’t really matter because nobody cares about deaths caused by cars.

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    55 days ago

    Wait, does the driver in an Abrams really only have the periscope and the hatch, with no higher-mounted cameras?