this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2025
544 points (98.2% liked)

Buy European

7697 readers
574 users here now

Overview:

The community to discuss buying European goods and services.

Matrix Chat of this community

Rules:

  • Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.

  • Do not use this community to promote Nationalism/Euronationalism. This community is for discussing European products/services and news related to that. For other topics the following might be of interest:

  • Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.

  • No russian suggestions.

Feddit.uk's instance rules apply:

  • No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or xenophobia.
  • No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies.
  • No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users.
  • Do not share intentionally false or misleading information.
  • Do not spam or abuse network features.
  • Alt accounts are permitted, but all accounts must list each other in their bios.
  • No generative AI content.

Useful Websites

Benefits of Buying Local:

local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.

European Instances

Lemmy:

Friendica:

Matrix:

Related Communities:

Buy Local:

Continents:

European:

Buying and Selling:

Boycott:

Countries:

Companies:

Stop Publisher Kill Switch in Games Practice:

Banner credits: BYTEAlliance

founded 10 months ago
MODERATORS
maam@feddit.uk
alex@jlai.lu
circledot@feddit.org
Argyle13@lemmy.world
buyeuropean@lemmy.ca
buyeuropean@feddit.org
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
meldrik@lemmy.wtf
Sunshine@piefed.ca
544
Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe (www.youtube.com)
submitted 5 days ago by maam@feddit.uk to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
92 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Part of why these monstrosities are possible is that pickup trucks, and most SUVs, are regulated as "trucks" not "cars" and so they don't have to follow all the same safety rules as cars.

There are some that actually have a camera in the front so you can look at a camera view of what's in front of you and blocked by the monstrous hood. I suppose that's good, but it seems like if they have to put a front-facing camera in a vehicle, they're admitting that the view out front is so obstructed that the vehicle shouldn't be legal.

[โ€“] scala@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If they do have a camera, that camera works only under 10-15mph, above that it's disabled.

[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ok, and?

[โ€“] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That sucks obviously

[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sure, but is it a major issue? When the vehicles are going quickly there's less of a chance of something sneaking up in front of them. The big danger is when they're going slowly so something could come from the side and get in front of them with the driver unable to see it.

[โ€“] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The major issue is that they have such a big blind spot and can't see what is right in front of them, fast moving or no.

Things aren't sneaking up on them, they're running over shit they can't see.

[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The big issue is when they're moving slowly and things can move from the side (where they're not seen) into the blind spot. When they're moving forwards at a reasonable speed, the only way to get into the blind spot is from the front, where they're very likely to be seen.

[โ€“] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Imagine they look down for a sec to change the radio and miss the thing that is now in front of them.

[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That can happen in any car. Look down for a second and you hit something.

[โ€“] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now you've got the right of it

[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

The point is, in most cars when a driver is proceeding at a reasonable speed they're looking at the road in front of them. If something is going to end up in front of their car, it has to pass through an area where they're looking. If there is a 5m blind spot directly in front of their vehicle, that only blinds them for the last 100ms before they hit it, so it doesn't really affect the safety of the vehicle.

But, when a car is stopped at a light or something, the driver may be looking away because they're not moving. Same if they're in slow moving traffic. In slow-moving traffic something can enter that zone in front of the car from the sides. In fact, that's one of the most likely scenarios: someone crossing in front of a stopped car, for example. That's when it's essential to have visibility of what's in front of you, which you get with a normal car having a reasonable hood shape, but which you can sort-of get away with using a camera on a i-have-a-small-penis truck.

The camera not operating when the vehicle is moving quickly is fine, because that's a time when the driver should have their eyes on the road via the windshield, and not be looking down at a camera that shows them a 2-d, low resolution view of essentially the same thing.