Just look at that. This truck is taller than a used kid (10 years old). I assume the truck can run over pretty much any other age but probably the driver might be able to see older kid’s heads. Or we could teach our kids to jump to school rather than walk. If you see a truck, jump and make eye contact before jumping while crossing the street. Or we could tell our kids to never go outside until they are 21.

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        Looking at normal buses, the driver is sat high up, right at the front and with a clear view in front of them. And it’s so weird the US school buses just ignore that design and are shaped like an old truck.

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          shaped like an old truck.

          Up until recently, a good chunk of school buses were trucks, mainly based on the E/F350 - F650 platforms (or 3500 - 6500 if using GMC). Recently though, bus manufacturers are switching to internally designed platforms and the result is more cab-over buses and the ones that aren’t have a more swept hood (look at the Blue Bird Vision for an example). However, small buses are still based on truck platforms (E/F350, or GMC 3500)

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          A lot of those have been replaced with modern designs. Just like most things, the farther you are from a city the shittier things get.

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      Donnie Wahlberg was a New kid on the block??? Wow. I had no idea!

      I’m used to the normal transition between toddler pupae to child-like human. That’s when I though children were brand spanking new.

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      You know that kid is just like “Mom, can we just go home? No I don’t wanna stand in front of any more trucks! Mom, stop being weird.”

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      All the cars in that picture are ginormous. That’s crazy. Cars are trending to be larger here in Europe, but that is something else.

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    I recall about 10 years ago, a guy at a shop i used to work at bought a GMC6500. I’m 6’2" and could easily walk under the side mirrors.

    I noticed the truck was parked in the same spor for about a month. I asked some of the guys I worked with why it hadn’t moved. Apparently, the owner was getting into it when he fell out backward, injuring himself.

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      I’m 5’3 and had to do an oil change one one when I worked at wal-mart. I was in the pit so I had to stand on the top rung of the step ladder we had down there just to reach the suspension so I could hang off it to get at the oil filter.

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    The perfect height to deliver devastating head and chest injuries. It’s almost like they deliberately designed this thing to kill kids.

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      Not to mention it’s so high up and the hood is so massive, you can’t see the ground for like 10 feet in front of it.

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    And 30lb e-scooters that can fit under your desk are the problem! /s

    In all seriousness, is it any wonder why pedestrians get murdered at crosswalks? The drivers of those tanks can’t see anything below the dash!

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    You can buy a tank cheaper in USA than you can buy a sedan in Turkey.

    By tank I mean a tank. A real tank. Used by Israel and Syria in the seven day war.

    Yeah.

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      The hood is really just for checking fluids or minor repairs (bu-dum-tss). For anything big, the body gets lifted off the frame.

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        A lot of the time the truck is put on a lift and the part is dropped out from under it. Removing body off frame is a ton of work, no one is doing it unless they absoultely have to

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      You don’t have to open the hood, you just bend a bit and work from under it. There probably even isn’t a hood.

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      I think OP is probably a non-native english speaker and meant something like: “the child used in the example above (10 years old)”

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    Lexus RX450h Advance

    It’s not big big, but still big enough to fall into the SUV class, and certainly quite big for the tiny roads in the UK

    picrel isn’t mine, but is very similar

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    2021 RadPower Radrunner 2, a 2018 Chevy Bolt, and a 2008 Dodge Sprinter that runs on used cooking oil. The sprinter smells of fish and chips when I actually need that capacity of carry ability.

    Even the Sprinter’s hood is at least a foot and a half, if not two feet lower than that monstrosity, and I can shove way more into it than that thing can carry. I know because I have used it to move 10 ton loads of river rocks for a friend that was removing their lawn.