“We already know that American pickup trucks’ giant and deadly front end has little to do with function and everything to do with image; otherwise, every truck would look like the Ford on the left, designed to European safety standards, with a lower front end and great visibility.”
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/11/17/how-skeuomorphism-is-making-u-s-roads-more-deadly
#WarOnCars
Anirvan Chatterjee /
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