Pedestrians: “can you please make your cars a little safer for us?”
US carmakers:
Too low to the ground, they might be able see a child in front of them.
Good point, how about this?
When you snort so much iron oxide that the only notes you have on car design is "bigger! BIGGER! ADD SPIKES! "
“Just walk away and we will spare your lives. Just walk away”
Personally, I have to haul heavy loads across the whole country.
You know what would work better for that though?
Trains. High speed electric trains.
I do not like having to pay off this expensive ass truck.
Finally some sense in the regulators. Something like the Hummer EV and Cybertruck shouldn’t be legal.
I didn’t see the community and was already primed to say no half measures! abolish cars! and instead have functioning public transport (and if elon musk sabotages it like he did with california high speed rail he gets launched into the mars on his own garbage shuttle). Then there can also be housing layouts that aren’t atomizing and reactionary social-engineering projects to facilitate white flight and capital extraction from cities like the hellscape that is the suburbs; where people are conditioned to give money to the chemical/chemical-weapons companies who invented the concept of “lawn weed” and to fossil fuel industries to pollutively wastefully mow and always forever re-mow their sterile mediocre lawns so theyre ‘too busy [with pointless busywork] to be a communist’
Lawns are the one of the most watered crop in america, and we don’t even eat them. Lawns should be completely banned from places with water shortages as a start and replaced with drought resistant native plants.
Yes! go off!
The easy way would be to repeal the chicken tax.
If there isn’t a weight limit, nothing else matters. Limit truck to <3500lbs, ban cameras and require ~130 degree unobstructed view for all mirrors.
Ban cameras? Like, back up cameras?
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I’m of the opinion that vehicle registration should be by mass. I think that adding extra for use case and for expected hauling is also reasonable. We can allow the gas tax to slowly fade into a carbon tax while making registration be both the way we fund roads and a progressive tax on those who do more damage to them. We can even have different vehicle categories with different weight costs for incentives.
Cars didn’t used to weigh that much and the safety regulations can still exist, it just requires car manufactures to fix their safety issues without adding more weight ultimately making everyone less safe.
A 1990 Ford Ranger weighed <3000 lbs.
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