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[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

It's also on individuals, our purchasing choices shape what corporations decide to make. if people only bought fuel efficient vehicles companies wouldn't build these idiotic mega polluting trucks.

And trucks are vastly more dangerous for pedestrians than other vehicles. they have massive blind spots, and weight a shitton more. As trucks have kept getting bigger, pedestrian deaths have gone up, that's why we bring it up.