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It'd be nice if we could have some reasonable, efficient Keis (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by mycodesucks@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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Maybe they could get approval if they physically disconnected the door handles from the mechanism and forced them to stay locked if the thing bursts into flames...

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I agree with the spirit of the post - the tanks Americans have been taught to adore are a bigger safety risk than a small car and I love my Smart. However, the Euro NCAP are performed at speeds not exceeding 60kph. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to require that in order to travel on roads with a 50kph speed limit, the vehicle will not crumple like a piece of tissue and kill the occupants. There is the separate quadricycle test which demonstrates the risks of these vehicles.

The Euro NCAP also have the valuable pedestrian safety tests and extrication ratings.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Kph? Kilos per hour? Kilos of what?

Yes I'm a pedant.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago

Oh... Well the ban makes more sense in that context

It'd be one thing to have a car not permitted on the highways, but that speed would be dangerously slow outside of individual communities and a few of our most dense cities

[–] abrake@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are lots of stroads in my (American) city where the speed limit is 40mph or roughly 65kph.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hell there are a lot of Street roads here where the speed limit is 55 mph the road right in front of my house is 40 mph. Even I think that's too fast 10 years ago when I first moved here it wasn't bad but we've since tripled almost quadrupled the amount of people in the area and now 40 mph is way too fast. I've watched numerous accidents including one where most likely a young girl died two nights ago 50 ft from my house slamming into the back of a parked car.

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

There's a stroad on the other side of my block that's 35mph (55km/hr), but people rarely go less than 40 (65) and often go as fast as 50 (80)

It's the main reason that my cats are indoor-only

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cars in the US now follow prison-yard rules: they need to be able to intimidate to establish dominance. Drive a kei car, or even a modest European hatchback, and you’re the scrawniest guy in the yard, sweating bullets as the big beasts mill around you.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 12 points 2 days ago

While still being unsafe overpriced shitboxes.

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

As American roads are the equivalent of Mad Max in real life, how about the american clown cars pick a fight with my 45 ton european tram?

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Does Lemmy have an equivalent to r/bitchimatrain? XD

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

I mean that's super easy to avoid. All I got to do is you know turn left or right or you know whatever direction the tram isn't going to and really can't and then drive pretty much anywhere I actually want to. So you know not that difficult.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only 5,000 lbs? If they get into a collision with a 40,000 lb MRAP they're going to lose.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Given how ICE is starting to drive around US cities, that's a real concern that people are going to start having.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago

Probably, is when they ram you randomly, even if you survive, they blame you for their bad driving. So have fun being kidnapped anyways!

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Straight up false. It's easy, in most states. I think all of them.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I saw this video a while back about a few states trying to ban new registrations of them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrTnyWODUT0

There were some states pushing back on the recommendations from some federal thing too...

IDunno what the outcome was.

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Afaik, and I'm not 100%, most dropped the issue. PA and I think it was MA or ME, which made the biggest news dropped it. And while I can't recall specifics most in the community who were pissed off stopped talking about it because it did get better.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Perhaps.

But "dropped the issue"/"not enforcing existing policy" is a far cry from "legal".

[–] miked@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Impossible to do legally in California. The car won't get past customs here.