"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.

  • okamiueru@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    I think it’s slightly more nefarious than just narcissism. A bunch of people trading, manipulating the market, trading again, then undoing it.

    Tarrifs usually need to be planned a couple of years ahead, since it affects logistics, etc. Trump’s administration irresponsibly announces mindbogglingly significant changes to tarrifs, with almost immediate effect, then undoes it over the weekend because “it was a misunderstanding”, or some other flavor of incompetence.