"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.
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.
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.