• Bye@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Safety standards caused passenger cars to get larger more than anything else (trucks got bigger because of weird fuel economy regulations).

    Roll back safety standards and we can have small cars again. It’s probably worth the amount of excess deaths it will create, but someone should do a study.

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      5 months ago

      Dpn’t forget the fact that most car safety only applies to people in the car. For others it may or may not make it in fact less safe.

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      5 months ago

      Were already at an all-time high of vehicle related deaths. We’d actually probably see a decrease in fatalities if we made cars smaller.

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      5 months ago

      Safety standards is the stated reason, but the actual reason is that weight is unregulated and can always be increased in pursuit of any more profitable dimension. If weight was the taxable dimension, we’d live in a much better world.