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I am so sorry y'all gotta deal with these stupid fucking trucks. They are MASSIVE but they don't have any bigger truck beads or hauling capacity than trucks of years past. Absolutely a joke.
Inefficient because they have the aerodynamics of a brick. Dangerous to pedestrians due to the crazy high front hoods. Dangerous again because no matter how calibrated those headlights are they are 5 feet in the air and just blinding the shit out of everyone.
I'm generally against telling people what they can and cannot drive bot those trucks are not it. Maybe in a farm where it's never used in the road sure. But around other vehicles they just don't work.
Read above but I will say the safety features are there for pedestrians. Break assist/warning saved this toddler from being roadkill once. I was driving through a neighborhood very slowly as I saw a family getting out of the car, like 5 mph or less. As I nearly cross the plane of their front hood this toddler comes bolting out like Sonic collected all the chaos emeralds. My truck beeped loud AF and slammed the breaks. Have the dash cam video and all. If it wasn't for that safety feature, regardless how safe I was and eyeing that area as the family got out, that kid would have been dead. We wife, a kindergarten teacher most calm person you'd meet, so shaken got out chewed out the parents for not holding their kid's hand.
I still think the damn trucks are too big and I'd give up that crew cab for a 6 foot bed.
Safety features like that are great for any type of car, and might help you react if you react too late. They shouldn't be there because you literally couldn't react without them because you simply wouldn't even see the danger.
This is literally a street tank for no reason at all.