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  • FishFace@piefed.socialtomemes@lemmy.world•Funny that…
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    9 days ago
    1. Drive slower over potholes
    2. Drive slower when it’s icy (or not at all). 4WD won’t help you in the most important situation on ice: braking. What will help are studded tyres.
    3. You can fit two large instruments in a station wagon. You can fit two medium instruments in basically any car.

    But I think you missed the point of my questions. What proportion of SUV owners actually need all those features? Are they worth it for the increased axle weight, emissions, and pedestrian deadliness? Obviously few, and obviously not.




  • FishFace@piefed.socialtomemes@lemmy.world•Funny that…
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    9 days ago

    F350s and F150s are too tall to fit in a lot of car parks in my country. That kind of vehicle essentially does not exist here, and I do think it skews the brain. But also, trucks and SUVs are different segments. A Rivian also isn’t a van or HGV, but that doesn’t make it “reasonably sized”. The brainrot here is the idea that a pick-up or an SUV is a normal car for normal people rather than a speciality care for niche uses.

    Why does a normal family need the high ground-clearance of an SUV? Why do they need four-wheel-drive? Why do they need the enormous cargo space? Not that no normal family needs one or more of those features, but the point - belaboured to death by now - is that most SUV owners don’t really need them even every year, never mind every week.

    So yeah I think there is some brain-fry in those who find that reasonable.








  • FishFace@piefed.socialtomemes@lemmy.world•Ol' reliable
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    13 days ago

    I remember trying to terminate some Cat5e in uni. I don’t think a single one of the cables I made up were able to do gigabit… actually I don’t think a single one was able to do 100 megabit. I’m colourblind so ordering the wires correctly was essentially impossible, but all of us involved were fucking up in various ways…