"Trickle down economics doesn't work, so let's try piñata economics. That's the one where we beat the billionaires until the hoarded wealth falls out."
Fuck off, unless there’s a story like this about how much the military loses, this is just manufacturing consent for further privatization of public services
ah, the pathetic fallacy of spending one final, cold, yet beautiful evening with my boyfriend and waking up single to a solemn, rainy saturday
what we had, I would not call love, not a tear was shed in our departure; but today, I will let the sky grieve for me
goodbye, matthew 🌻
A Lamborghini Huracán is 46 inches tall at the roof. A modern pickup hood sits higher than that. The entire car fit below the driver's sight line.
Consumer Reports has been measuring this for years. Pickup hood heights grew 11% between 2000 and 2018. Truck weights grew 24% in the same window. The front blind zone on some trucks runs 11 feet longer than a sedan's and 7 feet longer than a typical SUV's. Before you add aftermarket lift or oversized tires.
The number that hits hardest: when Consumer Reports put a 5-foot-2 driver in a Ford F-150 and lined elementary school children in front of the bumper, it took 9 kids standing in a row before the driver could see the top of the first one's head. Nine children. A Huracán roof is lower than those heads.
IIHS measured the 2015 F-150's forward visibility and found drivers can see 36% of the 180-degree area within 10 meters of the front bumper. The remaining 64% is hood, mirrors, and A-pillars. 10 meters is the average stopping distance at 10 mph. Parking lot speed. Invisible.
744 children died in frontover crashes in the United States between 2016 and 2020. The geometry that put a Silverado on top of a Huracán is the same geometry.
The Lamborghini had an insurance policy.