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- Published on Mar 11, 2026
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As an American I had no idea that our cars were less safe than European cars. Today I want to learn about why European cars are safer than American cars. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
US protects companies , EU protects people/consumers
Exactly rules and regulations are an attack on FREEDOM - that great USA obsession. " I can do what I want and no one else has any right to stop me .. This is the land of the FREE." Unless of course in Trump's MAGA America you happen NOT to be of white European extraction and/or are not a MALE. . In that case look out for ICE. a born citizen or not.;/ it makes no differencer to them what your papers say if you do not fit their ideal.
The reason why Trump want to destroy us !!!
From Europe...
Spot on
Very true
Even though in my opinion the EU is too much over regulating here and then, in comparison to USA its paradies, almost.
Now that i am thinking about it, it comforts me that my gouvernment cares about those issues.
Safety standards, food standards, infrastructure, healthcare, that is where my taxes are going to be used for.
Where a country has universal healthcare, the government has an incentive to promote health and prevent injuries. Where a country has a massive and corrupt private health industry making a fortune out of people being ill and injured, which also funds political parties, the government has an incentive to have sick and injured citizens. That's it.
Also the lobbies of the oil and auto industry don't lack influence: the roads & streets are designed for cars & trucks, not pedestrians & bicycles.
Well said 👍
Truth 🎉
@Apollorion In a country where jaywalking is illegal, you know these lobbies already won...
DamocMetalFever This is not true. This only applies within 30 meters (approximately 100 feet) of the crosswalk and on provincial roads and highways. Due to the high speeds at which people drive on these roads, pedestrians are not allowed to use them at all.
ask any question why in america, the answer will always be money.
So America is just a big Mr. Crab?
@dacartrainguy Yea, basicly. The car-lobby is super strong in the US. And then there is the ego of the customer... you know, "The person next door has a big truck, so I need a bigger one" (there is a d-joke in there somewhere)
Your cars are like your food ,not good for your health 😂
You hit the nail on the head
That sounds like British humor. 😅🙂
US food regulations:
Cemicals are allowed until proven harmful.
EU food regulations:
Cemicals are forbidden until proven harmless.
US drives as though they have free healthcare.
@louisepeart2701 no one in the world has free health care in eu we pay high tax it comes from that it's not free like every one thinks. On the opposite side America and Germany have the best doctors that's why many doctors in America are from eu they make triple the money in the US
You accept bad/no health care, you accept no gun control, you accept people not vaccinating and accept criminals/con artists and worse in civil service. The corruption and lack of awareness is astounding
USA is one giant Arkham Asylum 😂
And it's all legal too, corruption even has a name, it's called lobbying.
They can`t help themselves because the are still living in the wild west times,
Eu isnt any better. Our leaders are pathetic
Over 40,000 killed on the roads yearly in the US and you don't even think about car safety??????? 48,000 killed by guns and you think this is normal. No wonder you have the government that's now in power.
35 thousand of them die by accidentally or not shooting themselves witha gun. Free dumb
@brinjoness3386 How many of those accidental shootings are because kids or teenagers got access to gun they should not have access to? I thought there were supposed to be some laws requiring locking down the guns but maybe I've mistaken there.
I call it natural selection
@MikkoRantalainen apparently rules don't apply to Americans
@MikkoRantalainen there are laws or rules but they aren’t really enforced and are retroactive. Meaning, only a charge will be made if an incident has already occurred. They don’t take preventative measures, even though it’s encouraged to do so, no one enforces it.
As we say here "the bigger your car is, the tinier your wiener".
Eh, it would be way cheaper to cover one's wiener with stickers.
Starting to think these fellas aren't fiscally responsible.
so people's genitals live rent free in your head?
And how stupid is that for saving children’s lives!
I usually call these Biggus Dickus cars, just for that reason.
@larszenthio1012 Anybody seen the female version Incontinentia Buttocks?
'America needs to be educated on......' yes, all 😂
'America needs to be educated.' 😅
@randomcube999 as an american i agree with this, we're fucking stupid in this country....i mean look at the orange idiot the fanboys voted into office...twice
Been saying this for 30 years. The excuse of a systematic problem cutting out a good portion of the people from edjucation isn't valid anymore. Everyone has thousands of times the Library of Alexandria in his or her palm. So, what conclusion is there but... they just don't care?
😂😂😂😂😂
@Toolsinnig Natural selection. If a 19th century European guy knocked up a woman, he could marry her to flee to America. Seems like this has happened enough to make the American culture way more self centered and getting away with bad stuff is seen as ok while people staying in Europe owns up to how own actions affect other people.
9:20 This is partly why disabled parking spots are placed near the building entrance, a parking lot is a very, very dangerous place for a wheelchair user. Keep this in mind if you're ever tempted to use the disabled spot because "you'll only be a minute" - a wheelchair user now has to find a regular spot in the middle somewhere, meaning wheeling behind a bunch of big SUVs and pickups whose drivers can't see much - potentially fatal.
OMG... now i know why disabled americans often have a pole or a flag on their wheelchair. I just thought it was another american thing but it's for visibility😮
0:20 first time? you been living for 30+ years and never knew your cars are death traps? oh my lord Oden.
There's a reason that the Cyber truck is banned in the EU, its death on wheels to pedestrians, cyclists & motorcyclists.
Plus it's too big for the roads.
Too many sharp edges.
Very poor braking system.
Overall very little to no safety features.
@gerardflynn3899 Cybertruck actually has pretty good brakes in reality, about 40 meters from 100 km/h to full stop. Something like Porche 911 can do the same thing in 34 meters. Other than that, you're totally right.
also, even if it were available in the EU, the Cyber truck could not legally be used with a standard EU driving license for cars (class B license) that has been obtained in the last 25 years - because the Cyber truck is too heavy. I.e. almost all EU citizens below the age of about 45 , who are using a EU driving license, would need at least a driving license for small trucks 🚛 for the Cyber truck.
@tobyk.4911 You are right. I just looked it up. The cyber truck has a curb weight of 2775 kg and an approved payload of 910 kg, so 3685 combined. A standard European drivers license only allows driving 3500 kg and that is assuming full payload. This is the lightest version. The towing capacity is 3402 kg and a standard license will not allow car+trailer to exceed 3500 kg.
In Europe you can get a car, which can compete against a cyber truck for cargo ability and you can add a one ton trailer on top of that while still stay within the 3500 kg limit.
AND it very ugly and would ruin our historical city esthetics.
America is a third world country with Air-conditioning!
AI-conditioning now.
@markussmedhus9717 Well played, Sir, well played! 👏👏👏
Oh, dont forget the nukes!
By now, USA reached Pakistan level.
America is 50 third world countries with a military budget big enough to fight God.
Propaganda conditioning also.
Americans don't think of anyone other than themselves
Exactly. I'm safe , screw the others! (as long as I'm not the pedestrian. maybe that's why they don't walk)
And they don't have a government who cares about them.
The American stupid republican way with everything, they aren’t interested in making their own lives better but in making the lives of others worse.
They would rather do without healthcare than risk somebody else getting it for free.
Yeah they live in there own little BUBBLE and can't see past AMERICA and they've been BRAINWASHED into thinking they live in the best COUNTRY in the WORLD..
do you think the government in Spain care about us no because they let in 4 million illegal immigrants and give them free housing and money. While someone people can't even afford rent. Same in Italy France
Did you see Vance's 40 car parade (security) blocking the roads at the Winter Olympics
STUPIDE vance
"We just like things that are big and make a lot of noise" = Probably the best description of America and Americans I've heard in a while.
If you drive a large and noisy American car, you wouldn`t see or hear a child screaming when you run over it.
Don't forget that in the States, car makers run their own crash tests and then self-certify their products as being 'safe'. In Europe independent bodies do the testing and certification
US has the idea that everything is safe until proven otherwise while the European thinking is that everything is dangerous until proven safe. This is the main reason why lots of American food is banned by EU rules, but it's more widespread than that. It seems to apply to road safety too, toxic chemicals in toys and a bunch of other stuff.
Not only will the US require proven safety issues, they don't require third party testing in a lot of cases, so companies can sell untested products. Snake oil is a term today for an ineffective product, but it was literal in the 19th century and perfectly legal to sell. The idea is that consumers can sue if the product doesn't meet what was promised, but companies have made it very impractical to sue.
Interestingly England used the US model in the 19th century, making the path from invention to profit very short, which in turn made England beat France for coming out on top in the industrial revolution. However just because England benefited from this approach in the 19th century doesn't mean they would still follow that setup today when it's no longer a good option. The US approach is not fundamentally wrong initially, it has grown into being wrong and not kept up with how everything have changed over time. You could argue that the US is stuck in the past in this regard.
Also let's be real. Even 200 years ago the US was known for being way less safe. Railroad signals were not mandatory in the US until 1895 while Britain introduced the token based signal system in the 1830s or 40s (nobody bothered to write down the date or name of inventor)
I'm not American, but I'll take your word for it. That being said, it would be true in legal terms (which is appalling, I agree).
But there is still testing done, in the USA, by an organization (I forgot the name) working for insurance companies (which, obviously, benefit from their insurees suffering the least possible damage). And, I heard American insurance companies take the results of these tests to price their car insuraces (raising the premium for the least safe ones). It's not perfect, but it is a thing.
Oh, the same problem with Boeing then ...
Vehicles in Europe after 3-4 years depending on the Country have legally mandated yearly safety
vehicle tests in an Independent of the Vehicle manufacturer Test Centre
Counter arguments and i am French. It's american that discovered the tanaka scandals and dieselgate scandals.
Death by car accidents 2024. Per 100 000 inhabitants:
US: 157
Sweden: 20
Sweden is less car centric and has created paths for bicycles. I think that could further lower the numbers.
Then there is the yearly check, to see if a car is safe for the road.
Americans have the freedom to drive a rust bucket 🤦♂️
Auch Fussgänger können bei einem Autounfall getötet werden
@fairybeliever4479
Have you seen the death rates on your "roads"?
EU: 4 fatalities per 1 billion passenger kilometer.
US: 7.5 fatalities per 1 billion passenger kilometer
Takes into account the distance travelled by people, so no excuse.
@fabr5747 If you take into account the size of roads, lanes, stright roads, idiot-proof designs, but not ape-proof and that it's not even possible to have pedestrians on the most roads, you should multiply that US number by 5 to get how actually bad that is. You can't even express it with math and statistics with the amount of stupidity involved anymore if u really think about it.
That the most americans just cant drive isnt helpfull either.
"Like, I'd never thought about that."
Well, THAT is the main problem of a lot of people!
98% 😅
They are too wide for a lot of our roads here in the UK. Many of the roads that I drive in my small kia, these big US SUVs would be over the center white line and half in the opposite lane of traffic.
If you take an American passenger for a ride in a british car on a british road he would be shitting himself, they are used to driving on American roads the width of a football field.
And they still have far to many accidents.
I love the thumbnail pic: Dacia Sandero vs Dodge RAM🤣
I'm not surprised you have high traffic mortality. The amount of driver training you get is disgraceful. The tests are dubious as well.
And they learn to drive, as a kid, from a parent, who learned from their parents and so on. No instructors have ever been involved.
@simonekeijzer7468 Just parsing down Dad's *bad habits* and crude understanding of traffic in general.
Americans drive because roads are made for driving while Europeans drive in accordance with the rules as that is safer and makes traffic flow better. For instance the rule that overtaking can only be done on the left is obeyed in Europe (mostly) while Americans ignores it to such a degree that most Americans don't even realize that's the American law too.
@simonekeijzer7468 Europe relies on professional instructors as those instructors are obligated to keep up to date with changes in traffic laws. American parents can teach what their parents said and effectively teach traffic rules from before some 1960s change.
Also the US is the only country in the world not using the ISO standard for road sings. You can totally drive around Europe without knowing the local language, but it requires traffic school to know what each picture legally represents. Americans read signs in English. The reason the rest of the world went away from that is not international traffic (through that helps), but rather the idea that pictures can be read faster than text, which was seen as required for modern highway speed to be considered safe.
@Thegoodthebadandthefleshtuber even with worse vision, eu signs can be recognised without having to read. even though there is regulation on how good you have to see to drive, it is not mandated to test but if you do get your eyes tested they have to report it to the traffic authority.
the cybertruck is the worst example.
Those things are ugly pieces of shit
The Cybertruck is cool. A Mercedes G-Class tore the Cybertruck in two after the accident.
Is it even the worst? Some of the big pickups are worse in most ways I know.
Cybertruck, the only car that is NOT selling like wildfire. Production stopped because parts are falling off, endangering traffic. Wow.
Often hear users say how there huge cars are safe, missing the point that they mean more unsafe to everyone else
11:38 You see them more and more now in australia. But you can make several assumptions about the driver upon seeing the vehicle, since they are thankfully still reasonably rare.
The general thing over here is that if you see someone in one of these huge cars 4x4 etc but live kn an urban area and would never drive off road, the 1st thought that i have is what a wanker
Americans are like Children Playing with their "Hot Wheels "
Just remember 50 kids every week are ran over by their parents, backing into a driveway. They sure love their hot wheels alright
well as i see it the problem seems that you have teenagers driving wreaking balls in a lawless land
If you can drive around the block without crashing or killing anyone, do you get a licence in the US?
@patrickporter6536 nah now a days somebody has to say you didn't kill a right wing white male and you are good enough, minorities add points as matter of fact.
It's the same as the gun issue. Human lives are considered worthless in America and no American is going to give up a truck he considered cool just because it might kill some children.
One told me 50,00 deaths per year was less important than his right to carry a lethal weapon. They just don’t give a fuck
True, but it's their country and their way of life! If this makes them happy, be it! Who are we to tell them how to live their lives? I'm sure I don't want to live there or go there as a tourist.
@syngonsmythe38 Actually you have to look at the benefits?? Every time an american is killed in traffic or by gun violence, the general IQ of the world increases a tiny bit, every time?
@SteveConkie-t6r Charlie Kirk? He accepted the possible cost of gun ownership in 1 video. Ugly how he died.
The gun issue is way more linked to the culture, lack of training and most importantly crime rate. Everyone has multiple knives at home, yet all countries are not filled with murderers. I often see peoples citing these numbers and just conclude "thats because everyone can by a machine gun in a supermarket there ", but thats plainly wrong:
- 60% of gun death are suicides. Thats sad, but removing the guns won't impact these numbers, peoples will use another mean.
- of the about 30 to 40% left which are murders, the majority is estimated to be done with illegal weapons, or legally brought weapons that where stolen and used by peoples who where not allowed to. Regulation won't really impact these.
- Gun regulations vary a lot, crime rate is way less correlated to gun regulation than to other factors, especially poverty. The dictrict of Columbia ( Washington DC), as the strongest gun regulation in the USA, and the hightest murder rate. The problem is not which weapon peoples choose, its how many tries to murder each other.
If someone politician tries to push a law to ban all kitchen knives to prevent stabbings, or to ban all cars to reduce the amount of death on the roads, peoples will say its completely stupid. The main problem is the culture and the justice system, not the tools criminals use.
The roads here are much narrower and the parking lots much smaller. Big Trucks are not practical.
Plus uk band bull bars or push bars as it stops the crumple zone from taking the impact
It's the US-mentality in many .. many cases. This "The gov/feds can't tell me what to do"-mindset in combination with "Why should I pay for OTHER peoples needs?"
Yet corporate propaganda rules the US populace and their lack of universal healthcare is catastrophic too. 💙🇬🇧
@WillMorrey Yeah.. don't wanna get too "philosophical" since this is just a comment-section on YT but the cultivated american mindset seems to be the embodiment .. for good or bad.. of "It's you or me".
That mentality seem to be what they mean when they talk about FREEDOM!
They are free to harm each other in a multitude of ways. But not free from worry.
Yet the government are still telling them exactly what to do, they are just oblivious to the fact, being oblivious to that means the government have completely succeeded to create the perfect scenario for themselves
i think of it is as the "me, myself and I" mentality
No Tyler, your drivers are worse as well! Giving an SUV, that weighs more than the first tanks, can travel 140 miles an hour, to a 16 year old, with 20 hours of training but isn't trusted to have a beer, and has hormones pouring out of their ears, seems normal to you. Of course your 'Safety Standards' guarantee they' be safe inside though.
American pedestrians. That's a rare thing.
It is such a weird system where you can basically buy safety for yourself, be it cars, guns, you name. All making u feel and maybe be more safe yourself at the cost of everybody around you. So the people around you might do the same and here they are, the monstrous numbers of deaths due to car accidents or gun violence.
What a concept...
Suggest you check out the MOT car test that has to be done every year on you car in the UK. Also check out our driving test examinations you have to pass before you get a license to drive.
That's just unfair mate, the UK driving test is something else entirely 😁 (love it btw, I'm from Italy and we could use that)
The Australian system is the same.
It's insane the number of rusting and unsafe vehicles driving on America roads!
@IvanSeminaraTry to take Finnish test. They are stricter than the UK.
@TheStrongasSteelPlus kids in Finland learn how to drive in Finland.
Whereas in the US they learn how to operate a vehicle.
They will never sell those in Europe, the streets are to narow. Sometimes i see one in the Netherlands, it's so stupid, they even not fit in a parkingspace.
That's not the problem, European semi trucks are wider than American ones, yet manages to fit in many narrow spaces. The problem is that American pickup trucks are just useless vehicles. Anything you put in the bed must be secured, and it would get wet too because rain is a thing. The storage space in that bed is tiny compared to a Van or even a station wagon with folded back seat, and they cost a lot more than a van.
As for towing, they're useless for that too. A B license only covers the pickup truck itself. BE for a car and heavy trailer would allow a larger trailer but that's still just 7 tons, which isn't a lot more than a station wagon plus a trailer, which you can drive on a B license. And if you need to haul heavier stuff than that you'd need a CE license anyway. With a CE you can rent or buy a semi truck or even road trains, with a lift in the back or a crane to easily load and unload whatever heavy shit you need to haul, which is just much more convenient than a pickup truck would ever be.
I don't buy the muh forklift argument either, because in a lorry you wouldn't need a fork lift to begin with, and if you have bricks on a pallet you just lift it off with a crane and place it wherever you want it, no need to lift the bricks out one by one from a $100,000 pavement princess pickup truck where the owner would freak out of there's a scratch from the bricks.
I hate those with my whole heart. We get these in Lithuania too since our guys do wonders with salvage cars from USA 🤣
Lots of RAM 1500 that were no seller sin USA ended up in Europa.
They are expensive to run and impractical but some people aparently love to drive around int hem.
To be honest, there are huge cars in Europe, pickup trucks included. I've seen some of Ford or even Volkwagen - the Amarok. Perhaps they far not as big as the biggest US cars.
A college of mine drove a Hummer. He parked his "car" in Amsterdam taking up 2 parking spots and got a fine. 50 euro please. Next day again. And again. And again. Finally he saw the light. Sold the "contraption" and bought a ML320 instead. Much more creature comforts as well.
Adding to what you have seen, the lack of professional driver training, then giving them a giant killing machine is asking for disaster.
It may cost more to get your driving licence but if you are fully trained by a professional driving instructor, it makes you a better and safer driver.
Yeah… this also goes for the sticks that go ”bang” … many countries do allow them (while americans assume otherwise) but require proper training on their use and handling before doing so. Same thing in principle ;)
As someone who lives in England, when I see a Ford F150 I think “damn, that’s a large ass truck”. When I realised there’s a F450 I was absolutely stunned, and that’s just from seeing images online
A Ford Ranger is big in the UK, an F150 would struggle to fit on some roads here and good luck trying to get anywhere in an F350.
Fun fact, i did calculations on how wide a vehicle can be in the uk before becoming a nuisance, and the hilux was at the limit, 185cm wide,
Anything wider than a hilux is impractical,
And the ranger is wider than the hilux
I prefer the freedom of been able to walk around.
But you also have more stupid people... so maybe it is Darwin Awards in effect 😉
Also they dont have to do a driving test to get a car after they are 18.
So many risky/bad driving practices are accepted there, eating while driving, using you phone, etc.
George Bush (jr) showed such bad judgement to have two DUI fines, but was considered responsible enough to be president.
Nah, dumb people have big cars that run over small cars, cyclists and pedestrians. True, they are culling the not so dumb people, but in this case, evolution selects for dumb and dumber.
You can solve stupidity through education.
@harrybruijs2614 a part of it at least. Knowledge wouldn't hurt.
Also, your president wants to roll back safety regulations so manufacturers can produce cars more easily and more cheaply
Less safety, more pollution, breaking down all the time etc etc etc. And they sell it as "freedom".
@dfuher968more pollution > bigger more reliable dinosaur engines > less break downs. As well as regulation rollbacks mean cheaper cars for you, a lot of money is wasted on cutting the last co2 gram off
@rickrolled7930 You didn't get the point, right ? Cheaper production costs doesn't mean cheaper cars for consumers - it means more profit for companies. And the additional costs are more pollution, waste of resources and less safety for consumers.
@Roluf.Vargson i’m sure he doesn’t
And the result is predictably that US manufacturer would import cars from their Chinese partners (SAIC-GM, SAIC-GM-Wuling (yes they are different), FAW-GM, Changan Ford and probably several others) thus resulting in at least, no additionnal jobs, potentially factory closures (after all you can cheapen out on the bigger models too now) and increasing commercial deficit since the USA would import more cars.
Mr. Rumple is an American who learns... What a unique individual! 😂😂
That's why the Tesla Cybertruck is partially banned in Europe. It's so large, heavy, and has such sharp edges that it's simply too dangerous in accidents involving pedestrians.
i would have banned it simply for how dumb it looks 😂
It's not partially banned.
It's banned from all roads.
@gerardflynn3899 Well its not technically "banned" per se.. its just it will never be approved for road driving the way it is due to eu safety regulations :D (yes im being pedantic)
@gerardflynn3899there are at least 3 registered here in Prague.
The cyber truck is to big and heavy to be classed as a passenger car in Europe, I Drive a 5.3m long 3,100kg 8 seater van and it's as big as is legal for a normal driver to drive without needing a different uncommon C licence the cyber truck is 5.68m so it's to big and definitely to heavy to legality insured and driven by normal people my B licence let's me drive a EV car or van up to 4250kg 8 seats an
It's not just about the cars being safer, but also about the training to drive a car.
You buy your driver's license; in Europe, we have special schools that teach you how to drive.
Canadian here. Same situation here. Driver's Ed(ucation) is Strongly Suggested, and some Insurance companies adjust their rates for young drivers. ❤🎉😊
In Canada it takes 2 years before you can drive by yourself on any road, day or night. G1 G2 G
Safety isn't about size, it's about design. When the Smart car first came out it scored a 5* on the NCAP scale ie the highest safety score.
I trust a Twingo far more to keep me safe.
Yes, but it's also about size. Do you prefer be hurt in the back of your car by a big RAM or a small Smart ?
Physics don't lie, size is important 😉 (for cars 😂...)
@checkman63 Yep, it is all about physics. Using the US ANCAP ratings the smart car achieves a 5* with 90-96% adult occupant protection. The RAM 1500 (by the US ANCAP rating) achieves a 70% overall score. Large vehicles always give the driver the impression of safety but this isn't always the case. BTW, I don't have Smart car, I have a Range Rover which also scored 5* but not as good as the Smart. Physics was used to design the Smart car to be safe
@AndyMcKeeman yeah, it's really impressive by the way. The best are Volvo, excellent in all safety points.
Interesting clip about the difference between roads in the USA and Europe
ruclips.net/video/QIhrHHYDuCY/video.htmlsi=vdhKkzLPKROnLqj0
10:25 we do, they are just a handful. Extremely rare.
Plus I doubt anyone would want to pay the somewhat huge cost than the cost of importing them over.
Euro NCAP is why. You can have a big car you just have to build it properly which America doesn't. Also i think learning to drive manual (properly) should be mandatory.
I can drive a 3.5Ton truck on my basic manual UK driving licence that should not be an issue. I just think the roads are so wide and everyone is in an automatic in America that they forget they are basically driving a 2 ton box of steel and they get distracted by friends or music or what ever... sad but true.
Well Mostly Of these Truck are weight more than 3,5 Tons
@supreme3376meh too wide for our roads anyway... no need to have something that large as a daily
My mate got stuck in a carpark for half an hour because some one parked too close to him... he only had an Amarok 😂😂
Well this was chucking bollocks ..
Another little fun fact about European cars: the hoods are built to be semi-soft on top. The low nose makes people roll over the hood, the windshield (at normal, non-highway speeds) will keep people from rolling over the roof and landing back on the road at the mercy of the next car, and when people falls back forward the hood will dent a bit to marginally soften the landing and 'catch' the person.
Sadly when people come "over the hood" they nearly always hit the windscreen with their head.
Well, force is mass times acceleration, and if the car weighs 3 metric tons instead of one, then there can never be enough crumple zone to protect the occupants.
For comparison: Traffic fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants in Germany are 4, and that's with no general speed limit on the Autobahns. Traffic fatalities in the USA are 12, so 3 times higher, even though you're currently allowed to drive between 65 and 75 mph on the Interstate Highways!
Get rid of those autobahns and you could get 2 like us in the UK...
Just sayin' 😂😉
@MostlyPennyCat Only 10% of all road deaths occur on the Autobahn. Country roads account for 57% and inner city for 33% . Just sayin'...
@silkejantzexactly right. Autobahn is maintained way more than the average country road, more crash barriers, more run off, no oncoming traffic, multiple lanes. While the narrow, poorly maintained country roads, have oncoming traffic on the same road, more blind corners and such, the city has pedestrians and a much busier network, stop signs, crossings, busstops, pedestrian/bicycle crossings. On the autobahn there are way less variables. But yes going 200 km/h weaving between cars, will ofc result in a more serious accident, rather than a fender bender. So there's that.
@silkejantz
It was just a joke, I know the autobahn isn't particularly dangerous. 😉
@MostlyPennyCat it definitely can be incredibly dangerous for people not used to driving on it like non germans on it for the first time with no clue about rules and customs
We have the same problem here in Canada. I often think it's done on purpose as a macro economy, like tourism or trade. If you think of it, accidents are very good for a lot of businesses, especially serious accidents. The police, the ambulance, the hospitals, the towtrucks, the body shops and body parts, the paint shops, the mechanics, the taxis or rental cars, the insurance people, etc, everybody gets busy.
To be fair, every carbuyer has the choice, which car to buy.
Germany has an much bigger pickup truck with the name Unimog. But even this gigantic monster is safer then the US trucks because it has no miles long hod.
Some US guy would love the Unimog - perhaps for this reason it's more or less illegal in the US. (Unimogs older than 30 years or so are allowed.)
Might as well bring up uro vamtac and sisu gtp
not sure, unimog's width is pretty standard which is not case for their monsters. At least beasts like Humers were scaled down for civil use here and those Fords and Chevys are tiny models in comparison to lager modls available there.
in the UK, every vehicle over 3 years old has to pass an MOT (ministry of Transport ) test to make sure your vehicle passes a safety test including emissions, every year.
And that is why most Teslas dissapear after 3 years.
Eu rule
Same with TÜV in Germany
@lionelhutz4186 uk used to be EU like us😂😂😂.
Now they are no longer EUropean 😂😂😂
@anamarques5599it is the same standards even if they are not in EU. Has nothing to do if they are in EU or not
If no one ever stands up and fights it then nothing will ever be done.
In the US Ralph Nader stood up to corporate America in the 60s and made them stop the degradation of safety and reliability taking place at that time. He enabled legislation to force corporations to stop building in unsafe features into vehicles that made them time bombs like the Corvair that just burst into flames with the storage area overtop of its air-cooled engine, or ford pickup gastanks protected by sheetmetal but no structure. Companies were building in features designed to failure within a short time frame to ensure that their products wouldn't last. This "Planned Obsellecence " forced consumers to buy new products despite 90% of the old product working fine. Companies invested millions to find critical parts of cars that would cripple the vehicle and make them fail in a short time. One trick they pulled was to buy steel so poor as to rot out within seven years and build frame members out of it. This guaranteed the cars and trucks would have to be replaced in 7 to 8 years, allowing them to sell more vehicles.
Nader forced your government to create the "Consumer Protection Agency" to look into these corporate acts of sabotage on their own products for greed and gain. The US led the world to safer, more reliable vehicles and products for a time. The same with appliances, and machinery. This of course has all gone now. Now this is the norm. There are no longer any checks and balances or restrictions on any of the world's manufacturers nor incentives to build safe and reliable products for the consumer markets.
Today a car that lasts 10 years is considered a reliable car whereas many Model T Ford's were running into the 1990s. Gramma's 50 year old fridge is still cooling your beer in the garage while your six year old designer fridge has a broken crisper, and the freezer section doesn't work. The Smart dryer you bought last year has a rattle and takes three cycles to dry the sheets, and leaves a funny smell in the laundry room. And Lord help you if you enquire about the warrantee on anything because you have to pay for that at a premium. Do you know that 5this was required BY LAW, only 15 years ago?
Too bad corporate America is more important in your country than the citizens.
That applies to about every aspect in the USA
Well, installing safety regulations mean restriction of freedom, right?
We call these Yank Tanks here in AUS.
I'm British. Last year, I was driving, though the beautiful North Wales countryside, when my satnav instructed me to turn into a typical Welsh country road.
I didn't get very far because in front of me was a huge American truck from one of the American bases completely stuck with its wheels straddling each side of the road.
The road was a very narrow one-way road with drainage ditches on either side. Due to the weight of the vehicle, the edges of the road had crumbled, and the belly of the truck was touching the road.
The two men in the cab who were both in uniform looked very worried.
I, on the other hand, reversed back to the main road and continued my journey via another route, all the time bitting my cheek to try to stop myself laughing.
Big trucks in GB are not a good idea.
There are councils that are starting to ban vehicles over 5m from their car parks as they do not fit the parking bays. That probably rules out a lot of these super trucks. Add in the licence requirements for anything over 3000kg all up weight being extra expensive training for the driver and issues arranging the annual MOT test for a heavy vehicle and these trucks from the USA become even more ridiculous. Imagine buying a 2900kg truck and finding you can't legally drive it because sitting in it takes it over 3000kg. Then it reaches 3 years old and you have to start searching for somewhere that can test it.
I would love to see one try to drive along a road I was on yesterday, Creskeld Lane near Pool in Yorkshire. Two way, unlit, narrow single lane, windy and some walls and banks either side. I was there after dark and at one point had to pass another car. The other driver saw my lights from around a bend and stopped at a point where I could pull alongside his car, then he could just get past me enough for me to continue when he got out the way.
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That's because you were in an appropriate car. I don't understand why we have to drive SUV's in this country either. . unless you are a farmer or have to have a big vehicle for your occupation why are you driving them when you live in the city! Large vehicle's in some cities have to pay to drive into or through the city center. Often they have to as they're working or delivering there. SUV's give off more Shit but don't have to pay!!! Hope you are listening Sheffield City council
@martinconnelly1473I honestly think that these little moments of forced cooperation in tricky situations are a really good thing for our psych and general attitude towards one another.
The raised finger and nod of thanks as you both help each other goes a long way. Rural drivers are super courteous, possibly for this reason.
Plus UK cars have to have M O T to be allowed on the road, every year cars are brought into the garages and checked,
They do have that in a fair few states.
Buuuuut there's nothing stopping you cruising a state line
@MostlyPennyCat. Even those tests are nothing compared to and MOT/TUF test.
Simply won't fit on half of our raods.
In France those truck are very rare and only sold to companies just like semi trucks.
Old cars like the german „Käfer“ (Bug) were made of thick steel. But in a time where the cars were slower in general.
Later they made the cars much thinner, more deformable.
The more impact the car absorbs, the less will come to the people inside.
This alone is the main criteria against the Cybertruck in europe.
My girlfriend had an car crash a few years ago. Her then husband drove (overtired), she was in the back with their two kids.
Then he fell asleep and came into oncoming trafic. With maybe 50-55 miles.
Both cars were down, but only my girl was injured with a broken arm.
The other three in her car and the woman they drove into just were shocked but fine.
You can buy a Dodge RAM 3500 in Italy, but to drive it you must have a commercial truck license. You can't drive it with a normal license!
I Don't know the US regulations but these cars are *trucks* . They even call them trucks, so I presume they need special license to drive those, aren't they?
Thats an overexaggeration.. Italy follows standard eu licence rules and a b licence allows you to drive up to 3500kg total weight.. according to google the normal weight range of a dodge ram goes between 2½-3 tonnes though there are some that goes beyond 4 so yes those you'd need a truck licence but as far as i can see those are in the minority so just making a blanket statement like that doesnt make much sense (unless Italy has some special specific rules regarding stupid pickup trucks that im unaware of)
Would that not then limit them in the same way: certain roads, parking, etc. out of bounds? So what would be the point of buying one outside of the US?
Good idea.
With standard B licence you can drive vehicles up to 3.5 ton. Ram 3500 i classified a N1 vehicle you don't need any special licence. Like an Iveco Daily 35.
You can buy the big cars. Above 3.5 tons you need a truck driver's license.
Depends when you got your licence I can drive 7ton on my car licence ,without the need for HGV
@coryxkenshin2.09 So you have B+E then, car plus heavy trailer. Once you need to haul heavier stuff, you need CE anyway, at which point you might just get a tractor trailer, because they're just more efficient at moving heavy trash.
In Lithuania, Pick-up trucks clasified as Trucks, hence you need Truck driving licence. Which is expensive, and not for common folka
Here in Portugal, i never saw a big car like this except in movies ofc.
In the movie 'Fight club' they put some data about car manufacter's deadly faults.
with those giant pick up truck if you over roll on a kid you will not even feel it in your steering wheel
even if they feel it, they won't stop
@punkelliot just imagine if you drive in front of school
Read about this with American Trucks. People bought these because they felt like "King of the road". And at the same time, there were several who admitted that they bought these to be safe. Several had dropped the rearview camera because they would rather have a cool synthesizer in the dashboard. And then considering that in 2024 alone, there were 103 children who were run over by their own parents, when they were backing out of there gardens. 103 children who were hit by their own parents is just tragic, of these, 87 had failed to have a rearview camera. While the others did not have the camera running, then you can wonder what these drivers are thinking. And how do these truck drivers manage to hit 92 cyclists. In 18 of these collisions, it was because they had been hit. And it is a cross of thought that you can buy such a truck and pull large trailers without extending your driver's license, as we have to in Norway.
bull bars were banned ages ago in the UK, when a pedestrian was hit by a car with these fitted, it first broke your are and ribs, crushed your chest and then flung you aside or under the car -- but i suppose in America that is ok as it protects the car from these inconsiderate pedestrians.
Tyler Rumple and Ryan Wass look a bit alike, almost like brothers - don't you think?
Cars, guns and food, and unaffordable health care, it's amazing to see Americans over 50!
A friend of mine has a huge Nissan Truck. It's so big, that his son (7 years) can't Look over the hood when he stands beside the car
as for these cars, with this design, they cannot be aerodynamic nor fuel efficient.
They can't be fuel efficienc... What about the fuel insustry?
They also need profits and the insurance companies and the repair industry and the... Too many industries before the person well been.
Fuel is quite cheaper in USA
Cars will be safe when, instead of an airbag, a giant nail is aimed from the steering wheel at the driver's heart.
Or ban All Risk insurance. Never drove a car with all risk insurance not even a brand new 40.000 euro, Audi A3 diesel. And yes, I drove 100.000 to 150.000 km per year as an ICT consultant in all kinds of weather. Wrote of one lease car, nearly killing me. Lesson learned. Bought my own car instead. Different attitude to driving. Do I drive overly carefull, hell no. But do I drive careless, definitely no.
They had the equivalent in the 50s.
You can get trucks in Europe though 'grey' import. The ones you see here are company cars. Private almost impossible to drive due to tax, price of patrol, insurance and road tax.
Also try parking a damn truck in inner cities through out Europe
The trucks are needed to pack up more stuff and leave quick when the weekly tornado comes and obliterates their cardboard house
But...if your cargo area doesn't have a roof...isn't that bad in case of a tornado?
Using the words 'America' and 'educated' in the same sentence - isn't that blasphemy or something?
Too funny 😂
Oxymoron.. 😂
Doge Ram sells in Norway.. though they are often sold as a small truck not as a car.. :)
There are two reasons American cars aren't sold here, or even allowed here. Firstly, they refuse to make right hand drive cars so losing out on the UK, Irish, Austrlian, Japanese, Hong Kong and other regions where they drive on the left. Secondly, almost everything in Europe has safety checks including all motor vehicles. The Cyber Truck is banned here because it fails so many safety checks.
don't forget the red indicators
@noroultra If we have a shortage of petrol I wouldn`t like to be behind one of these at the petrol pump. If the petrol station has a sign saying 5 gallons per car, you can bet he will do as he always does, FILL IT UPP. Mind you 5 gallons wouldn`t get him out of the petrol station.
I just remembered that time that Tesla released their cybertruck...
That was practically banned from EU 😅
Were do we find the original video you are reacting to? Because the link under video credit in the description is for a totally different video.
The driveway accident is 100% true! In 2023, my neighbor ran over her 7yo boy and the puppy he was trying to grab before his mom back up on them. The kid got a broken leg and a huge gash on his forehead but he saved his puppy!!! A few month after the accident she replaced her Escalade with a CX-30!
The boy is very much back to normal now and he likes his scar, he says it makes him look like he's a pirate!!! Weird kid! 🤣😂
Here in the UK every car has to pass the M.O.T every year. It's a road worthiness test, its for your safety and those other road users
i live in Germany and i seen one car like that today on my street
it looked out of place
so huge
We once rented a camper in Canada. It was an European style camper and just about big enough for 4 people.
In Calgary, we found a parking lot and then went to explore the city a bit. When we came back, next to the camper, wasa pick up truck. That thing was bigger than our camper.
We just stood there completely baffled. (And later noticed that the parking lot wasn't meant for campers anyways but the dude checking us in had let us park there because our camper was 'so small and cute' 😅)
Here in the UK, we do have larger cars, people carriers etc but the fronts are lower shorter and more stream lined.
09:58 Cool face on the boy's cargo short's thigh pocket.
I think that subconsciously Americans prefer SUVs /Trucks as an armored vehicle against physical attack or shooting too.
Car a considered a sort of weapon in Europe. This is why it is rather difficult and demanding to get a driver's licence compared to the US. The rest follows.
I have noticed in the UK that people are buying more SUVs (smaller than in the US) than they did previously. You can see how many in any supermarket car park. It's becoming a problem as many of our roads only just fit cars, never mind the big SUVs.
Btw, you have a private health system in the USA. Your health insurance companies won't make any money if you don't get injured and your cars are safe...just think about it. You're being played by your own companies and Government.
Yup there’s a mental health crisis
The more mass you bring with speed, the more energy you have. This energy must go somewhere when the car hits something. Easy as that!
Been higher can be an advantage as you have a better view of the road ahead, giving the driver more visibility and increase the reaction time of an incident.
no. safety aside, the yank tanks wouldnt even fit on the road
We do have giant trucks and suvs in Europe, but they have to comply with safety regulations so are built totally differently
but our giant are considered normal or tiny size in USA (we have here a few Fords and 1 Chevy in tiny town I live, but they are not as big as those monsters there.)
We also have a lot of pickups in Portugal (I mean real ones, not the weird modern ugly ones they have in the US). Except they are smaller and we actualy use them. Having a big car is useless most of the times. It takes up more space in the road and in your home, its harder to drive, its more dangerous, its more expensive, it costs more gas, and the increased size either doesnt matter because americans dont even use the extra storage space, or they need it to be bigger because they are fat themselves.
Yeah, the fact that they are not economical is a huge thing here. In american the fuel is too cheap. If they would raise the price of fuel, you would see the cars shrink pretty soon!
@simonekeijzer7468Plus in the US they are the only country in the world that still uses the outdated inacurate imperial measurement system especially when it comes to fuel.
Pay per (contradiction in terms)gallon.
Whereas in the rest of the world it's pay per litre.
@simonekeijzer7468 Also remember that US infrastructure is horribly designed. The country would have to rebuild and replan soo many things to make the country good for walking.
You need a car to get anyone because the distances are too long, but one of the reasons why the distances are too long is because they need space for parking because they have a lot of cars, but the reason why the have a lot of cars is because the distance between stuff is too big, which is also because there is too much parking.
And bigger cars mean bigger roads and bigger parking spaces, which means you need more cars to get anywhere.
Honestly, when I heard that the US spend more space on parking than on residential buildings, I though it was just a comicaly absurd exageration, but after seeing some aerial shots, it realy is like that. Endless concrete parkings. Instead of puting plants in the empty spaces, they put more concrete. Its an endless hellish landscape of concrete.
LOVE that you are so open minded and your positive view on your video. Keep it up😀 Hello from Norway
I did read a very interesting article that said that trucks and other large vehicles were classed differently to saloons/cars. These utility vehicles are subject to far more lenient regulations and thus far more profitable than cars to make so manufactures embarked on extensive advertising to make them more appealing to the mass market. Additional problems are they do not have to adhere to bumper (fender in American English) height so what would be a bumper to bumper impact between cars is overridden by truck bumpers causing far more damage when the hit the car they couldn't see because of the visibility problems. Headlight height is also a problem as these vehicles are far better equipped to dazzle other drivers. It all boils down to profits over safety.
Follower from Belgium here: I had a Dodge Ram 1500 (short bed), and it will stay with 'had'. The disadvantages do not outweigh the benefits. Driving it was very comfortable, better seating position, you can see further thanks to the higher seat height. But in terms of safety for others........ You do indeed see less in the dangerous blind spots due to the wider A-pillar, and you can see nothing directly in front of the vehicle. Plus the reliability of the car. Sorry USA, but apparently you have never heard of that. In the end, it was like 'you know you are leaving, but you are not sure if you will arrive'. And I say that from personal experience, not conjecture. There is also the matter of parking spaces; the length was not a problem for me (short bed ;-)), but the width is another story. If you only think about yourself (I was guilty, to be honest) it's cool to own a car like that. If you think about others........ not so much.
It's like the old saying "If you wanna driver into the wild buy a Landrover, if you wanna get back buy a Landcruiser"
Vehicle crash deaths rate in US is 12.2 per 100,000 population. In Denmark it is 2.27 deaths pr 100,000.
What is it per driven mile?
@robhughes3442 Still bad. Per billion vehicle-km 6.9 in US and 3.9 in Denmark.
@robhughes3442you still have more deaths compared to Denmark and any other country in Europe
And increasing!
Well, Norway, Iceland and Switzerland has the lowest car accidents and car deaths in the WORLD and the US the highest car accidents and car deaths in the western world!!!