Is it me or Saint was going in way too hot into that corner when Yuki crashed? Seems like both made the same mistake. 

North carolinian here as well, it’s really fun being tailgated by one of these things knowing they can’t see anything except maybe the very front of your car because only like 3 inches of their windshield shows in your rear view while they have their headlights blinding you and angled straight into your mirrors. 

Seems perfectly clear to me, I’m also an engineer. Donks are level, lifted trucks are level, personally I think they both should be subject to inspection and height limits, as they have risks associated with stability, structural integrity and impacts with other vehicles bypass the bumper and enter decapitation…

We already have laws about visibility and headlights here in NC. They’re pushing this law in particular because there have been a number of dangerous accidents due to it in the past few years.

All over NC car group pages people are screaming “slippery slope!” and “they’re not going to let me lower my car” etc.  Checking…

Carolina driver here. You want to talk about visibility? How about when the truck’s headlights are 6 feet off the ground and the low beams shine directly into oncoming cars’ windshields. I’ve had to nearly stop in the road as these assholes pass by me.

David, I think you “can’t see the forest for the trees” here. I think that it’s important that lawmakers are recognizing the safety impact of vehicle modifications. Let’s not look a gift horse in the mouth.

David, you’re better than this. Unless you think that lawmakers are going after redneck white kids in their 20's for some reason, there’s just no evidence at all that this is racially motivated. You’ve been spending too much time with your fellow writers who seem hellbent on turning every situation into a political…

I will point out that, oddly enough, I saw my first Carolina Squat in person yesterday when an old Escalade passed me going the other way. My first though was ‘How the hell does he see out of that thing?’

Gotta disagree with you on this one David, which is rare. Looking at the more extreme examples of this, there’s no way that driver can see anything in front of them, and if they were to rear-end said car (or kid or even adult) that they can’t see they would end up directly on top of them. Not only is this a visibility…

this law feels racially motivated to me.

Sorry, David; but pointing out that modern SUVs and trucks have visibility issues out of the factory cannot be a defense for making those issues worse with a modification. The motivations may be bigotry or general assholeness, but that doesn’t negate that they may be on the right side of the argument just for the…

Screams, “I’m in middle management and reside in suburb of Cleveland.”

I mean sure, but if we’re just spitballing here why not add some kind of wing-like appendages and drive it really, really fast so it could get some lift and maybe travel above the ground???

“With that, many have understandably expressed concerns over truckers’ job security”

Because it will take weeks to schedule a train car to transport your goods.

2 thoughts:

This idea is crazy, or as our Spanish friends would call it, loco. This idea is also about moving things, or as the ancients called it, motion. Therefor, your idea should be called locomotion.

Tesla DID offer swappable batteries. They even showcased and built battery swapping stations that could do it in <10 minutes, if I recall correctly.