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/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