"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.

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Yeah, but at that point, don’t you have something like the Honda fit? Cars that already are sold in the us, but don’t do well? We don’t need a new class of vehicles as much as we need to encourage better choices among the ones we already have

    • UltraMagnus@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Also a valid point - it’s not necessarily a lack of options that’s preventing people from buying more efficient cars. “Lack of options” is more in play in choices to use public transport or drive