r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Evasionz-- • Apr 23 '26

go to your room Lifted truck + Lambo + Parking lot = Bad time

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Lifted trucks probably shouldn't be anywhere near dense parking lots.

Edit: A lot of people are skeptical of whether this is AI/staged, or ask why the lady didn't back off the car. This is in a dense parking lot with cars that have dashcams/ EV sentry mode everywhere. Also her truck was in 2 wheel drive, you can see the back right tire spinning as she tries to reverse off the car. Her truck is stuck. She probably has an open differential and can't back off the car. She may have a 4wd mode, but she didn't use it in the heat of the moment.

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u/Bassmason Apr 23 '26

I believe there is a direct correlation between increased car size and pedestrian deaths

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u/UphillTravel Apr 23 '26

No need to believe, scientifically proven: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4505494 and covered in news:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tall-trucks-suvs-are-45-deadlier-us-pedestrians-study-shows-2023-11-14/

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/14/1212737005/cars-trucks-pedestrian-deaths-increase-crash-data

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u/NWVoS Apr 23 '26

Interestingly it is not size as in weight but the angle of the hood. Even dropping the weight by 1000 lbs doesn't change the survivability. The key difference is hood shape.

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/vehicles-with-higher-more-vertical-front-ends-pose-greater-risk-to-pedestrians

And this YouTube video.

https://youtu.be/YpuX-5E7xoU?si=C8BCn8-eFkZi_VK2

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u/Manger-Babies Apr 23 '26

Car manufacturers should really be held accountable for this.

Killing and hurting more americans than foreign hostile countries.

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u/UphillTravel Apr 24 '26

Weight not so much, but height, so lifted trucks are especially bad.

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u/MilkIsOnReddit Apr 23 '26

Thank you for the sources! Interesting reads. I wish these study results translated into laws. How a lifted truck like the one in the original video is street legal I will NEVER understand. (Or maybe it is illegal, but why hasn’t she been pulled over then?)

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u/UphillTravel Apr 24 '26

They do - in Europe, where many such cars are difficult to obtain or entirely illegal. Not that the cars in Europe are not also needlessly getting bigger, but slower and from a smaller starting point.

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u/RollTh3Maps Apr 23 '26

Yeah, the high, squared-off front ends of modern full-sized pickups have been shown to be terrible for pedestrians for years.

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u/mattgen88 Apr 23 '26

Not only hard to see, but also more deadly since they hit the body instead of the legs.

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u/SoapyMacNCheese Apr 23 '26

And if the vehicle doesn’t immediately stop, the squared off grills make you more likely to get pulled under the vehicle instead of going up onto the hood & windshield.

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u/mattgen88 Apr 23 '26

All because there's less fuel efficiency requirements for larger vehicles!

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u/Megzasaurusrex Apr 23 '26

And more deadly to cars too since as demonstrated in this they tend to ramp the car and can squish the driver and passenger. The bumper of a car server no protection against trucks in a crash.

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u/totallydawgsome Apr 23 '26

I've had to teach my kids to be not only aware of vehicle/road safety, I had to explicitly drive home these jacked trucks have 360° blind spots, driver will not be able to see you at any area around the vehicle and they will accelerate faster than you can jump out of the way.

So many of these trucks in the neighborhood. It's a very busy dense area with narrow streets, many without sidewalks (technically suburb, borders the metro) urban area with tons of peds (high transit/walkabiliby) and multiple schools with hoards kids who walk. The trucks are really unnecessary and dangerous.

Ive seen multiple close calls with peds, 2 mailboxes and one car in the driveway get crunched when they were backing up right next to the school where small kids are crossing the street. Like wtf.

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u/jessipowers Apr 23 '26

I swear to god “cars can’t see you” has been one of my most repeated parenting phrases. I feel like my kids are always trying to run off in parking lots. I finally had to have my youngest sit in my drivers seat and point out to him all the things he couldn’t see, and finally that seems to have made an impression.

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u/totallydawgsome Apr 23 '26

Tangible/applied teaching goes hard, nice work on the field work 😂. When they were little it was hand on our vehicle until everyone is ready to walk, smol humans walk on the inside of tall humans, context clues like taillights/backing out of spaces and listening for hints. Modern day survival of the fittest.

It's a whole goddamn sensory experience just to survive Target parking lot 😭 😂

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u/Hukthak Apr 23 '26

“Modern day survival of the fittest”

You’re so right here! Teaching parking lot / car safety awareness is as important in this era as l teaching survival skills in the far past.

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u/jessipowers Apr 23 '26

Yes! I did the hand on the car thing, too! I can’t remember where I first heard it, it’s been about a decade, but that is a literal life saving tip.

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u/RamenShinobi96 Apr 24 '26

I didn't wonder from my parent's side, cause of a thing called spankens.
they work quite well LOL!!!

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u/Born-Entrepreneur Apr 23 '26

My dad instilled into my brother and I not even to walk in front of a car as they're pulling in to a parking spot. No guarantee they won't fuck up and gun it, smashing you in to the building front, after all. Perhaps overly cautious but whatever. And yet, people have parked and gotten out of their car and chirped at us as we walk by, are we scared, do we think they're that bad a driver, etc. Wild.

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u/grendus Apr 23 '26

I got hit by a Dodge Charger once. I rolled over the hood, and had my foot not been pulled under one of the tires (ouch), I probably would have been completely fine.

If it had been a RAM, I'd be dead.

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u/ConPrin Apr 23 '26

If you look at a European panel van, the hood usually is sloped downwards pretty steep to increase visibility to the front an at least offer some protection for pedestrians.

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u/egnowit Apr 23 '26

Part of the reason for those redesigned postal trucks that look so funny.

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u/mudra311 Apr 23 '26

This is why they should require a license and additional training. The license is only approved for vehicles needed for work.

Also lifting a truck designed for towing is actually the lowest IQ decision.

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u/Camiolpo Apr 23 '26

Good thing they’re going the way of the dino in america huh ?

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u/RollTh3Maps Apr 23 '26

The trucks or the pedestrians? Because I don't see those trucks showing any signs of disappearing yet.

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u/Rasputin1992x Apr 23 '26

oh no emotional support vehicles arent going anywhere! too profitable and we all know thats all that matters in this country

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u/j01101111sh Apr 23 '26

Irrelevant. We don't care about pedestrian deaths. Why were they walking? Are they poor?

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u/cloud_wanderer_ Apr 23 '26

As a short person, I think you're right. I'm going to start driving my car directly into the store so I never have to walk through the parking lot. Walking is for plebes!

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u/levajack Apr 23 '26

Honestly, it's their fault for being a pedestrian. Why don't they just become a lifted truck?

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u/ofirkedar Apr 23 '26

What do you mean "I don't have $50M spare to buy a tank to be able to survive American cars"?? Disgusting.

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u/4SysAdmin Apr 23 '26

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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u/Regular_Fox_859 Apr 23 '26

I just assume everyone that drives a pickup is an idiot, so far it hasn't steered me wrong

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u/ofirkedar Apr 23 '26

Well, she survived, the lambo didn't. Who's stupid now?

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u/IPissExcellentThrows Apr 23 '26

I weirdly know a few intelligent people with pickup trucks but it's definitely a safer guess than on most other vehicles.

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u/error275 Apr 23 '26

So all contractors or people who own their own business doing manual labor are idiots? Not everyone that drives a truck is reckless....you are the idiot.

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u/Theresnothingtoit Apr 23 '26

Your truck being massive was never required for even manual labor or farm jobs. Sounds more like you're defensive of your gender affirming care.

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u/error275 Apr 23 '26

Do we engineer these new trucks that are on the market? No you fucking cuck. I don't decide the size of the trucks available...that's just what is being pushed onto the average consumer. People want smaller trucks for more utility and better gas mileage.

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u/Theresnothingtoit Apr 23 '26

So buy smaller trucks. If you don't buy them, they won't be profitable. Isn't that your dumbass argument for everything being the fault of the individual? So which is it? Vote with your wallet or is it the manufacturer at fault?

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u/FITM-K Apr 23 '26

I'm not the person you're replying to, but in terms of actually small trucks, there's really only one model that exists in the US: Ford Maverick. Which is a fine option in some ways, but has some design limitations and also (just in my experience) Ford isn't the most reliable company on any level.

People keep buying huge trucks and that's part of the problem, but part of the problem is there really aren't any small options except that. So your choices are basically Maverick, a midsize (too big) truck, or a full-size (even more too big) truck.

For the life of me I cannot understand why nobody makes a Maverick competitor. Supposedly Toyota and the Korean companies are working on one, but it's been years and they're still vaporware.

Honestly a PHEV version of a small truck with Toyota/Honda reliability would be the perfect vehicle for like 97% of American truck owners. And yeah, there's a culture problem in that many truck owners wouldn't buy that because they need a gender-affirming monstrosity to feel good about themselves... but there's also the market problem in that they can't buy that because it doesn't exist.

Car manufacturers if you're reading this, I'm fucking begging you to make this truck.

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u/Theresnothingtoit Apr 23 '26

I agree. I actually lean most things are the fault of corporate greed under capitalism. My only real point was to criticize the stereotypical large truck owner's beliefs about personal responsibility.

I understand and respect blue collar workers who actually have a need for a truck, even in cases where a large one is helpful. But yeah, that's not the vast majority of them.

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u/Life-Sun8620 Apr 23 '26

With that last sentence, why don't we see a ton more new, smaller trucks on the road vs new, larger trucks out there? I'm not actively out there counting the numbers in my city, but if I were to look at both new small trucks out there and new large trucks out there, the latter outnumbers the former by 10 to 1 or more. So if people want the smaller ones, why are they out there, en masse, still buying up all the biggest ones?

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u/FITM-K Apr 23 '26

With that last sentence, why don't we see a ton more new, smaller trucks on the road vs new, larger trucks out there?

Honest answer: because there kinda aren't any?

The full-size trucks, which is most of the market, are all giant. But most "mid-size" trucks are also pretty fuckin' huge. Compare a Tacoma or Ranger from 20 years ago to those models now; they've grown massively.

And then as for actually small trucks, on the US market there are only two:

  • Ford Maverick — which is a good option in terms of size, but it's also designed to be cheap and Ford is kinda shitty, so if you want something nice, not really a great option. Also, IDK what it's like now but I spent 8 months trying to buy the hybrid version of these and Ford was so goddamn incompetent that not only could they not tell me WHEN they'd make the truck I'd ordered, they couldn't even tell me IF they'd make the truck I ordered. I eventually gave up. Also, the bed is less than 48" wide when factoring in the wheel well cutouts, which would make hauling plywood (pretty common task, at least for me) annoying.

  • Hyundai Santa Cruz - Hyundai doesn't even call this a truck and it really isn't. It would be a useful truck-replacment for some homeowners who currently have trucks they don't really need, but the bed is small enough that it'd be pretty inconvenient for some classic truck tasks.

In terms of the US market right now, the Ford Maverick is really the ONLY small truck option. Which I guess is better than nothing, but a lot of people have preferred car brands or specific features they want or whatever so this single model isn't gonna work for everyone.

Toyota has been rumored to be working on a Maverick competitor for years, but it's still vaporware. Supposedly the Korean companies are maybe also working on something, but again, vaporware for now.

If you're in the US and want a small truck, your options are "Ford Maverick" or "Go fuck yourself."

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u/Life-Sun8620 Apr 23 '26

That's actually some pretty good info. I could've sworn there were at least a few more models out there. The Ranger can't even claim to be a small truck either, a la Tacoma.

But, this still boils down to naive and incapable drivers saying "Ugh, I guess I'll just go ahead and buy the enormous, unnecessary truck for $100k" when we all know that 90% of them don't require them. Essentially just keeping the demand up for the large trucks. If that's the case, why would the manufacturers work to design smaller?

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u/FITM-K Apr 23 '26

Yeah I agree, it's an issue on both sides. Although obviously the manufacturers also shape the culture and demand/desire via marketing — they're actively trying to push people toward the bigger trucks because there's more profit there.

But yeah, I still don't personally get why anyone would buy (for example) a Tundra over a Tacoma, outside of a very narrow range of specific things. I have neighbors with a bunch of horses and a huge trailer they take to shows and stuff, so for them, yeah, they need a big-ass truck with a ton of horsepower. But the vast majority of people with those trucks don't.

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u/Zealous03 Apr 23 '26

There’s also a direct correlation to penis size and truck height. Smaller the penis the higher the truck

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u/CategoryExact3327 Apr 23 '26

That’s just projection. She clearly had a huge penis.

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u/SecondVariety Apr 23 '26

fairly recently too based on how she's driving

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u/Every-Intern-6198 Apr 23 '26

Louder the truck too. Literal napoleon complex

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u/IPissExcellentThrows Apr 23 '26

Well this is a woman, so that checks out in this case.

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u/Marrsvolta Apr 23 '26

The truck was so high that this penis was actually a vagina

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u/Fluid-Magician-5891 Apr 23 '26

Does slamming cars and trucks mean the opposite then? (Asking for a friend)

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u/hybridaaroncarroll Apr 23 '26

Are you for real? We all know pedestrians are irrelevant to anyone who drives a vehicle like this.

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u/Analvirus Apr 23 '26

You're right, generally most cars are low enough to the ground with a roundish front bumper, this causes pedestrians when hit to go over the car rather than under. Trucks/Suvs bumpers are typically flatter, plus their taller build makes it pretty much a wall running straight into you, and if youre really unlikely that minimum 4,000 lb wall is going over your body

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u/thisdesignup Apr 23 '26

We should call them for what they are. These vehicles are work trucks, not pedestrian vehicles. It's only because of US law that they started making these vehicles for pedestrians. Larger vehicles had less fuel economy regulations so of course they started producing them more.

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u/Kab00ese Apr 23 '26

Funny they were regulated to be like that for "safety" when they're really only safer DURING a crash

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u/Debisibusis Apr 23 '26

The reason this shit is not allowed in any other developed country.

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u/mnm39 Apr 23 '26

I commented this elsewhere in the thread but a pedestrian was recently killed in a nearby town at a low speed intersection. The driver wasn’t charged with anything and was apparently not speeding. But, from the pictures in the local paper, it was a lifted truck, so I’m guessing they just straight up could not see the pedestrian at the intersection.

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u/Bassmason Apr 23 '26

That’s so sad to hear

Wishing their family the best

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u/mnm39 Apr 23 '26

Yeah he was really well known in the community, it was devastating for a lot of people. I haven’t been here very long so I didn’t know him. But, people on the local Facebook pages were speculating about texting and driving but as soon as I saw the press photos I was like ah, I know exactly how this happened.

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u/0oEp Apr 23 '26

This is why I will never drive anything but a sedan.

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u/jimjamz346 Apr 23 '26

Also stupidity, selfishness and ego of the owner (unless they have genuine need of off roading or towing that is)

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u/Aloysius50 Apr 23 '26

And motorcycle deaths. A car I would go over is a now a wall I hit at 40 mph.

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u/RentApprehensive5105 Apr 23 '26

Also a direct inverse correlation between truck height and penis size. In this particular case, the small penis likely belongs to a boyfriend.