Freedoms are removed either way. I'd rather have everyone be _free_ to participate in traffic on safer, more observable streets, where air quality, maneuverability and parking space is decreased only for a good reason, than have a small minority who like the arms race or "bigger and meaner = better for my ego" cars be free to buy (and normalize) such cars (regardless of the car maker's nationality). And I'd bet that's the real reason others cheer this on, too, not what you chose to assume in this unnecessarily inflammatory comment. The easiest way to feel better about oneself is to make up negative assumptions about others. Introspection time

You are a European who drives an EV, so you might not be intimately familiar with just how absurdly large these trucks are. I was recently driving and pulled up at a red light next to one; the top of the hood neatly lined with with the top of the hair of a woman crossing the street directly in front of it. If it had been someone short or a child, the truck driver might have literally been incapable of seeing them.

These things are tolerable on American suburban roads, which are sized generously with even more generous parking. They're an utter disaster for pedestrians because their front profile is more "brick wall" than "gentle slope." It would be fine if they were driven slowly, but the machismo that leads people to buy them also means that they are all absurdly quick.