"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.

  • AlexLost@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    At what point did their safety come up? I said he wants to make US cars less safe, like through deregulation. Us Monster vehicles are so they burn as much gas and materials as humanly possible. Cars could be cheap, but there’s no money in that.

    • unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      How is their inferior safety not relevant to the discussion? Personally I would love it if more people drove smaller and less polluting cars, but not if they’re death traps. If you’re willing to have drastically reduced car safety in exchange for a modest reduction in environmental impact then I guess we just disagree on that point.

      • AlexLost@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 days ago

        They aren’t death traps though, that’s the thing. They aren’t motorized coffin makers either though. Also, shouldn’t it be my choice to drive something safer or not? What happened to free choice? I can still choose to buy a compact that won’t survive an encounter with a f250?