It's ok, my children are inside the children killing machine. Fuck those other kids.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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Which is ironic, because you’re statistically most likely to roll over your own child. Kids are dumb and will do things like run in front of your vehicle as you’re pulling out of the driveway. And if you’re driving one of those massive trucks with gigantic blind spots, you won’t see them.
It’s sort of like having a pool. Statistically, someone from your household (like your kid) is the most likely person to drown in your pool. Simply because kids are fucking stupid and they’ll inevitably spend a lot of time around it.
We got a new GMC 2500 for plowing at work last fall. My boss was a big truck guy and crowing about how awesome it was. Mechanically, it was alright I guess. I didn't like the thousand speed Allison transmission.
Regardless, I made the boss sit in the driver seat, in drive, with his foot on the brake and told him to beep the horn when he could see me then crouched in front of the truck and walked forward. Took about 10 steps.
Repeated the same test with a treework company bucket truck International, easily 4 times the size. I can see the ground directly in front of the bumper.
It's not about the size of the truck, that lack of forward ground visibility is deliberate. It conveys a feeling of assuredness somehow.
Big hood means more better. Power! Strong truck do things good!
Make tiny peepee feel big too!
Americans don't care about mass shootings. Why would this be an issue?
Ahem, here in Canada we do.
America is a big place.
They need cars killing children to make the shootings deaths look less significant in the grand scheme of things.
Edit:here is a link to a CHILDREN'S book about why everyone needs an AR-15. it also includes a section about gun deaths are irrelevant because car deaths, as read by this youtuber around the 10:15 mark. I couldn't find an online source with the full book.
That’s a vanity-published book (note the lack of publisher information) by a local politician from Idaho, not something kids in every school across the country are going to have in their library. Shit, I bet most kids in his district don’t have it in their library. It was made purely for attention grabbing.
Doesn't change the facts that a) it exists b) some parents will read it seriously to their children c) it still contains the gun deaths don't matter because cars arguement.
We are constantly looking for new places to hide kids in a country this full of pedophiles.
Kids don't buy cars, so why would they care /s
I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote.
Group them into 3s and stack them in a trenchcoat, now you have 4 adults. Problem solved.
Bold of you to assume they don't know and do care about it. Automobile safety rules are, like most safety rules, written in blood. As long as they profit from it or are legally allowed , they won't do anything about it
99% of cars in America are driven in non walkable areas anyway
There are quite a few problems related to this issue
non walkable areas
Every area is walk-able if you get rid of the 10 ton death machines barreling through them at 80 mph.
I get the sentiment but no
Removing the cars would not magically make America walkable
Walkability is a design issue not just whether it’s safe to physically be there on foot
Removing the cars would not magically make America walkable
It would be necessary, but not sufficient.
It’s literally not even necessary
You can make very walkable places and still have some cars lol
still have some cars
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people will totally still walk on unsafe roads, that doesn't make people's houses any closer to anything.
when i was a kid i would walk in the Ditch on the side of unwalkable roads, playing frogger to cross. it took me 2 hours of waking to reach the closest business, which was a single gross gas station. that's why i didn't walk to commute and I'm an avid hiker. the small handful of times i went for it it took me all day to get to one store and back. spent 6 hours just to get to a store with fresh produce and back by foot.
That's a feature not a bug.
Not like just about every new car has 360 camera, AEB, and blind spot monitors. Nope nothing at all to see here.
Well they sure as shit don't use them when they're supposed to, but also, technology fails. When the camera dies and the operator decides it can wait to be fixed or they don't have the money to fix it because they already spend $1600 a month maintaining the vehicle , children will get run over and the driver will turn into that little shit from the old Chips Ahoy commercials all "heeheehee, oops!"
Can people in other vehicles see the cameras? Last time I checked, they're a huge visibility problem for everyone else, too. Can't see oncoming traffic lanes when it's in a left turn lane on opposite sides of an intersection. Can't see through them if they've pulled up too far on the left of somebody that wants to make a right turn. Etc etc.
they generally only turn on when the car is in reverse or if the parking sensor detected something already, and the parking sensors aren't that reliable if the driver pulls out too quickly...
Also depending on the car it can take a while to load the image and there can be a bit of delay from the processing where it stitched the images together for the 360 view...
Also it's not mandatory to have a front camera in most places yet as far as I know , so the base models or work truck models won't have it...
Is that better or worse than the blind spots in a Plymouth Prowler?
Depends on how tall you are.
i mean i think i get it, standard cars are to big for any reasonable practicality. but i am not going to lie, my first thought was, “a single blind spot can contain an infinite number children no matter how small the car”
Children famously adhere to the Pauli Exclusion Principle
but a blind spot contains infinite space
A blind spots "infinite" space can be altered by moving your head around slightly. Which eliminates blind spots further out while there is often still a blind spot closer to the obstructions, such as an A pillar.
yes i understand how reality works. and i understand what the meme is pointing out. but the measurement of blind spot space being measured by that many kids is kinda raising red flags about it just being propaganda