• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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        In my city, heavily segregated, the white upper middle class neighborhoods in the city are full of people openly drinking and driving with their families in golf carts.

        I think we all know what would happen if that were a cultural thing in the other half of the city.

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    The dealer association in America don’t like the kei trucks because they take sales away from the big behemoths with the same or slightly smaller size beds. The oil industry don’t like them and as an . There’s a guy in Georgia (I Think) that’s going to court to defend his fleet of kei trucks.

    Found an article. He sells them In Georgia

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    First of all, I personally think kei cars and kei trucks are very cool.

    That said, from a urbanism/“Fuck Cars” perspective, they don’t actually constitute an improvement unless we actually provide special half-size parking spaces for them, like Japan does. Otherwise, they still require one full-size parking space each and thus are just as space-inefficient as regular cars.

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      They absolutely are an improvement in many ways. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

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        The best part of driving a smart car is pulling all the way in to the parking spot so it looks like an empty spot.

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    The microlino, in the pic, the more you look at it, the more you realise it’s is a badly designed car .
    There is a single exit door, in front, so you are stuck in case of frontal impact.
    You could think, no biggie, that’s a city car.
    It can go legally on the fucking highway.
    At 90km/h.
    Also it’s structurally so bad you topple the car by hard braking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYMIHzev4qE

    The citroen ami isn’t excellent security wise, but at least it only topple if you hard turn in a slope, and you cant go on the highway.

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      There is a single exit door, in front, so you are stuck in case of frontal impact.

      It has a sunroof and rear hatch. So long as the door latch isn’t hidden (like in the Tesla) I don’t see the problem.

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        Fair the 90km/h version have a sunroof, not the lite model.
        And I dont think the average humans can access the rear hatch in case of problem.