• jaselle@lemmy.ca
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    There’s something of a Nash equilibrium with everyone needing a bigger and bigger truck to stay safe. These giant trucks are very unsafe for pedestrians and use up lots of unnecessary space. Reversing this trend would be great.

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      If you had read the article you’d have seen that these cars lack basic safety features, like airbags. The article also quotes two experts who say that they’re purchased as additional cars, not primary cars. They also have much smaller crumple zones.

      So what you’re saying is you want more cars on the roads and you want them to be less safe. And people are actually upvoting you because nobody read the article. Damn you all are dumb in here.

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        “with many lacking even airbags”. Meaning there are some that include it and that is only if you imported from Japan.

        Trump wants to manufacture in the US. All you’d do is build the US made cars with the necessary safety features like normal.

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          Some safety features like airbags could be added, but due to their size and design they have very small crumple zones which makes them unsafe at highway speeds.

          Even if you could somehow make them as safe as regular sized cars, they’re almost always purchased as second or third cars. People aren’t buying these as their daily drivers.