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There is one driving around near where I live in Amsterdam as well.

I am quite tall, even for Dutch standards, but the hood reaches my shoulder easily. It also drives around quite a busy neighbourhood. So I expect this specific car to kill someone within the next 5 years or so.

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There are much more dangerous vehicles around on European roads, such as most buses, trams and lorries.

Those tend to have no bonnets. So there are some risks and accidents still, but in general they do have better visibility.

And professional drivers.

They get paid for what they do, their "profession". Most of them are not particularly good ;)

That may be true, but on average I would expect them to be better drivers than the pick-up-in-the-inner-city crowd, whose choices are already off to a poor start before they turn the ignition key, after all, they picked the wrong vehicle for the surroundings.

There are probably less than two hundred people like that in the entire EU. Kind of a pointlessly small demographic to focus on.

Please stop polluting HN threads with nonsense. Thank you.

What nonsense? Do you genuinely believe that there are loads of people driving big American pickups in EU inner cities?

I think “a couple of hundred” is an absolutely reasonable estimate. Even in big cities like London or Paris you’re not going to find more than a couple (counting all the Mercedes G 6x6s too)

The people driving these cars exist mostly outside of inner cities.

If you disagree, you can do so like an adult instead of spewing out completely unnecessary and unjustified insults.

Don't they also need special driver licences, which can have more stringent rules?

Yes, but that is mostly "one time you get it" and then some courses every now and then. You do have more stringent medical rules at every renewal.

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