• LordGimp
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      You have to realize that semi trucks are built different. Think of it closer to a bulldozer than a pickup. It’s not designed to crumple into origami to absorb the force of impact. It’s a heavy industrial piece of equipment that’s designed to haul assloads of product with 3 or 4 assloads of horsepower. It’d be pointless to subject such vehicles to the same or even similar tests.

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        You’d still think of verifying energy mitigation/redirection for impact into other vehicles, no?

        Like it should be required that there’s something to keep a car from going under a trailer’s wheels if they merge into the side of a truck. How do you verify that’s working properly?

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            They did put that bar on the back of all trailers after Jayne Mansfield died crashing into a semi at night.

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          Nah lmao. Big truck pull hard no stop. As long as it does all those things, fuck everything else

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              Just pretend it’s mad max and you are fighting for the last drops of guzzoline every time you leave the house, as is right and proper with the Lord.