"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.

  • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    In Europe there are quite a few cities that ban cars that don’t meet certain emmission standards. Most big trucks likely fall under these bans, but it would also not hard to ban cars larger than a certain size.

    These European citizens usually have exceptions for professional use and stuff like that, so that’s not too hard to do either.

    Same goes with pedestrian zones, which are also very common in most European cities.