I am still waiting for the inevitable country music song about a broken hearted cowboy whose self driving car leaves him for another man.
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Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The fact that Ram drivers are a close second is hilarious. I guess there is some truth to all the jokes about Rams being driven by aggressive idiots.
vexikron@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Weird Al should be all over this.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Saw this on Lemmy a few weeks ago
(Verse 1) Sitting in the cab of my old pickup truck, Memories rollin’ by, like the miles we used to clock. Drove through the sunset, with you by my side, Never thought a metal heart could take me for a ride.
(Chorus) We were a highway love, wind in our hair, Haulin’ dreams together, an inseparable pair. But now you’re gone, and it’s just my luck, My darlin’ left me, a self-driving truck.
(Verse 2) We hauled our troubles down those lonesome roads, Your engine hummed the tunes, while our story unfolds. Loaded up with laughter, and baggage too, Little did I know, you had a route of your own to pursue.
(Chorus) We were a highway love, wind in our hair, Haulin’ dreams together, an inseparable pair. But now you’re gone, and it’s just my luck, My darlin’ left me, a self-driving truck.
(Bridge) I miss the way your headlights cut through the night, The hum of your engine, our rhythm just right. But now the road is empty, just echoes of our song, You found a new destination, I guess I got it wrong.
(Verse 3) We parked under stars, shared secrets in the dark, But now it’s just silence, an abandoned truck stop. I’m left with memories, and a tank full of regret, A self-driving heartbreak, I’ll never forget.
(Chorus) We were a highway love, wind in our hair, Haulin’ dreams together, an inseparable pair. But now you’re gone, and it’s just my luck, My darlin’ left me, a self-driving truck.
(Outro) So here I am, parked on this lonely track, Wishing you’d come back, but you won’t look back. You rolled away, with gears that don’t feel, Left me stranded, at the crossroads of steel.
vexikron@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
YES!
Fuck, I actually have a decent singing voice, no guitar though.
Lets find someone with a guitar and make this a stupid spotify single or something.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I read that as Weird Artificial Intelligence. Probably because of the context, since it never occured to me to read it like that before.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Saw this on Lemmy a few weeks ago
(Verse 1) Sitting in the cab of my old pickup truck, Memories rollin’ by, like the miles we used to clock. Drove through the sunset, with you by my side, Never thought a metal heart could take me for a ride.
(Chorus) We were a highway love, wind in our hair, Haulin’ dreams together, an inseparable pair. But now you’re gone, and it’s just my luck, My darlin’ left me, a self-driving truck.
(Verse 2) We hauled our troubles down those lonesome roads, Your engine hummed the tunes, while our story unfolds. Loaded up with laughter, and baggage too, Little did I know, you had a route of your own to pursue.
(Chorus) We were a highway love, wind in our hair, Haulin’ dreams together, an inseparable pair. But now you’re gone, and it’s just my luck, My darlin’ left me, a self-driving truck.
(Bridge) I miss the way your headlights cut through the night, The hum of your engine, our rhythm just right. But now the road is empty, just echoes of our song, You found a new destination, I guess I got it wrong.
(Verse 3) We parked under stars, shared secrets in the dark, But now it’s just silence, an abandoned truck stop. I’m left with memories, and a tank full of regret, A self-driving heartbreak, I’ll never forget.
(Chorus) We were a highway love, wind in our hair, Haulin’ dreams together, an inseparable pair. But now you’re gone, and it’s just my luck, My darlin’ left me, a self-driving truck.
(Outro) So here I am, parked on this lonely track, Wishing you’d come back, but you won’t look back. You rolled away, with gears that don’t feel, Left me stranded, at the crossroads of steel.
Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social 9 months ago
I think there might be something to be said here for some potential selection bias. Are Tesla drivers like ram drivers, overly aggressive idiots but with the added layer of being relatively new tech?
oo1@kbin.social 9 months ago
More boringly , maybe its selection on the circumstances too. For example maybe ev's tend to drive more in urban environments, more urban may mean more collision opprtunities per time spent driving.
Of course ram is a farmers vehicle is desgned for rural use, so must rarely be seen in built up areas. /s
vexikron@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
I assure you that large obnoxious trucks are a status symbol for many idiot right wing boomers and gen x, who take pride in daily driving a truck for their commute into, inside, and outside of cities.
They also complain about traffic, while simultaneously doing everything they can to under or unfund public transit, because they are literally incapable of understanding that adding more lanes to highways does not actually reduce traffic.
meleecrits@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Don’t forget complaining about gas prices while driving a 17 mpg vehicle.
ripcord@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Seems like around me most of the big truck douches are probably 45 or under. Don’t think it’s limited to just boomers or gen x.
oo1@kbin.social 9 months ago
hah, no bother.
Take any excuse to vent.Fortunately for me I don't live in USA so these things are still a bit of a rarity, and are quite impractical in my towns, compact and heavily pedestrianised town centre.
Sounds like yoy've a plague of them over there.
willis936@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The Forbes article seems to be citing numbers that are now a few weeks out of date. They cite that Tesla drivers have 23.54 accidents per 1,000 drivers and Ram has 22.76. If you go to their source link you’ll see that the more recent numbers are Tesla: 31.13 and Ram: 32.90.
www.lendingtree.com/…/brand-incidents-study/
Ram in MA is 64.44 and I want these fucking things outlawed.
yimby@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Read the source more carefully
Tesla drivers have the highest accident rate. From Nov. 14, 2022, through Nov. 14, 2023, Tesla drivers had 23.54 accidents per 1,000 drivers. Ram (22.76)
Accidents only. Worst driver counts DUIs a d fines as well.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Why does Massachusetts have such aggressive drivers? That seems like a large deviation for such a small state
Patches@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It doesn’t it has a shit ton of ice and snow
thatgirlwasfire@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Maybe in the Berkshires? The Boston area doesn’t get to much snow, and I would bet that is where most of the accidents are.
thatgirlwasfire@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I moved here and am still asking that question myself. Only in mass do people honk if you dare to stop for a stop sign.
squiblet@kbin.social 9 months ago
It’s mostly urban though. 7 million isn’t that small and it shouldn’t affect something expressed as a rate anyway.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s it the Ram that’s the problem, or the driver that also likes to cover the Ram in Infowars bumper stickers?
ExLisper@linux.community 9 months ago
Where I live Audi’s drivers are the worst. It’s like they are for losers that would like to do some posturing but can’t afford a Mercedes and it their frustrations manifest themselves in their stupid driving style.
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They don’t have a Mercedes because the EQS is not aspirational, as MB recently declared in relation to the lackluster sales of the series.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I had a friend years ago with Dodge Ram van. He said, “it says Dodge in the front because that’s what you’re supposed to do when you see it coming and Ram in the back because you didn’t read the warning on the front.”
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I wonder what that says about my Dodge Sprinter…
Lionel@endlesstalk.org 9 months ago
“I am driving a lifted DODGE RAM TRUCK”
"My lifted DODGE RAM TRUCK has BLINDING WHITE LED headlights positioned EXACTLY at EYE LEVEL. "
“I am currently TAILGATING you in the RIGHT LANE even though you’re going TWENTY MILES AN HOUR over the speed limit and the LEFT LANE is OPEN.”
“There are MONSTER ENERGY and FOX RACING stickers on the rear windshield of my lifted DODGE RAM TRUCK.”
“There are PERFECTLY CLEAN mud tires and MASSIVE CHROME RIMS on my lifted DODGE RAM TRUCK.”
“I make THIRTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS a year and thought that that was a WISE FINANCIAL DECISION.”
“I bring cases of BUD LIGHT to girls at high school parties while my wife and children are at home.”
“My lifted DODGE RAM TRUCK has a GUN RACK which holds the AR-15 that I bought at WAL-MART.”
helenslunch@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Worth noting that “Ram” is now its own brand, divorced from Dodge, and they only make 1 vehicle, while other trucks are sold as part of the Ford and Chevy lineup. So it’s probable those other vehicles are bringing up the safety ratings of, say F150 and Silverado.
Omgarm@lemmy.world 9 months ago
At that point is seems like a good idea to replace human drivers.
machinin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Exactly, bring in much more public transportation. It would solve so many problems.
Omgarm@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Oh definitely! I barely drive my car these days.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Aggressive drunk* idiots. Statistically.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 9 months ago
At least Tesla owners can blame it on the computer. 🤣
minibyte@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
“It appears the fault was located between the drivers seat and steering wheel, sir”
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
What was it? 25% more likely to have a DUI record?
cogman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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