"It's easy to want to drive one of these cute kei cars. It's another thing to put your family in them and travel down the highway at 70 mph," one expert said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40818280

If there’s anything we should take from Japan, it’s treating cars like second class citizens behind transit instead of the other way around. The cute tiny cars are more a side effect of that.

  • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    Yeah, but this is a legitimate concern in the US.

    In most of the world, safety checks for cars include making sure that they are safe enough for people outside the car. There are rules about crumple zones and sharp edges, that effect how they hit pedestrians, and what they can do to other cars.

    You can’t drive a cyber truck in Europe or the UK. In the US, it’s a free for all.

    If you want smaller cars/trucks back on the road, you need to copy the safety laws from countries where people drive small cars.