• HBK@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    Regardless of truck size, I don’t think tractor trailers are going anywhere. Even if we made trucks smaller those would still be out there

    Smaller trucks would still get in accidents though, and I imagine they would be less deadly

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      40 minutes ago

      Tractor trailers are heavily regulated with training, licensing, driving hours and sleep break logging etc. Are they really a significant source of pedestrian collisions?

    • SaltySalamander@fedia.io
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      3 hours ago

      Even if we made trucks smaller those would still be out there

      If we made them smaller there’d just be more of them on the road. There’d also be higher prices for everything to compensate for the extra expense of having those extra trucks and bodies to pilot them.