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What Happened to Pickup Trucks?
Source: By Angie Schmitt, Bloomberg • Posted: Tuesday, March 16, 2021
As U.S. drivers buy more full-size and heavy-duty pickups, these vehicles have transformed from no-frills workhorses into angry giants. And pedestrians are paying the price.
To get a handle on what’s happened to pickup trucks, it really helps to use a human body for scale.
In some nerdy Internet circles specifically, bike and pedestrian advocacy it has become trendy to take a selfie in front of the bumper of random neighborhood Silverados. Among the increasingly popular heavy-duty models, the height of the truck’s front end may reach a grown man’s shoulders or neck. When you involve children in this exercise it starts to become really disturbing. My four-year-old son, for example, barely cleared the bumper on a lifted F-250 we came across in a parking lot last summer. ....

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