"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.

  • unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    If you all did even the slightest bit of research you’d see that kei cars are significantly less safe than regular cars and that’s due mostly to their design and size, not just because of the presence of bigger cars on the road.

    This community LOVES cars, I’ve never seen such rabid love of cars. You all just hate big cars.