This post and op replies just seem like a thinly veiled ad…

Whether rightly or wrongly, without a body on frame construction they were never really trying to sell that to traditional truck consumers.

How do you get to that conclusion? I clearly state I believe it to be a major factor. I just don’t get why this place is so vehemently against confounding variables. It reads the same as US propaganda but opposite. Yeah, trucks bad, US bad. It’s just clearly not so simple. The US is huge and a rural town and major city have little in common. The trend is everywhere.

You can believe what you want but data from the ETSC (European Transport Safety Council) and ERSO (European Road Safety Observatory) is pretty clear. Reducing it to little cars is really slighting what Europe has accomplished. Car size is important but there has been so much more done. Little things like moving money from heavy vehicle corridors to raised sidewalks have both immediate (like visibility of pedestrians) and emergent effects (like driving culture changes).

This place is getting worse than Reddit.

Road speed has definitely increased since then. Cars are more powerful than ever and easier to drive blindly.

Road conditions have also changed. Europe has invested heavily in well designed infrastructure with a clearly stated goal of reducing road deaths.

Large vehicles in North America are clearly a major part of the problem but trying to be this reductionist seems pretty weird.

So many other variables though. European cities are designed so much better for pedestrians and cyclists. I’d argue that the driving standards are also higher in a lot of areas. Speeds often slower too since infrastructure is designed for mixed use. In North America the actual design of most roads is almost hostile to pedestrians. It’s clearly a mix a factors.

It’s super frustrating because if you talk to anyone in a blue collar or rural area they all tell you they wish they still made small trucks. The manufacturers keep upping the size and cost adding shit nobody even asked for.

Yeah the panel editing could use some work. Lots of weird size and space issues still too. I rather like how Cosmic is developing their panel. Still customizable but so much easier to understand. With the great changes recently to application themes the panel sort of seems the least polished part now.

Yep, not just audio either. There is a reason the tech companies are pushing into glasses with cameras and it isn’t to make people’s lives better.

Much like how Facebook includes non-users in their social graph.

By bribing lobbying local politicians. As always, laws are only real when they’re enforced.

This. It’s shocking how many people in tech circles still see Google as anything other than a data harvester for ads.

provably

They replaced the entire market with manufactured vibes.

What the actual fuck is your point? That we should all stop caring because you’re a broken nihilist?

I think this is giving Apple too much credit, they played the largest role in the development of USB-C’s design. Started putting it on their MacBooks and IPads pretty early. They were more likely just trying to avoid another bad press cycle like when they switched to lightning. As we can see with the App Store and browsers they absolutely will be anti-consumer when they don’t think their is any real risk to them.

They also know not to spend trillions making the product.

Yeah, you’re getting downvoted by creeps on Lemmy but this is creepy as fuck. It looks like a child’s face was attached to a woman’s body. First game was a pretty overt in its sexuality but this is… something else.

I think Strava is just popular due to cultural inertia more than anything. Garmin, Coros, Fitbit, Apple, even phone apps. Not really hard to export data and move. 90% of what I saw on Strava before closing the account was Zwift garbage anyway.

They could start by making an example out of a big player like formula 1.

Nah you just have innovation bias. Newer does not automatically mean better. That’s a wild take in 2026 since all of these companies have been marching towards enshitification for a decade.

Plenty of research showing that use of AI is just offloading your cognitive function. We know enough about neuroplasticity to clearly see this will impair those who use it for everything. It’s important to be challenged sometimes, the illusion of intelligence does nothing for us.