• isaaclw@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Hm. Interesting point.

    Maybe as we move our economy away from cars, and people dont all have to be drivers, we could also move away from cars that are poorly designed specifically around bad drivers.

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      5 hours ago

      Kei was recently found to botch all of their safety test scores for many years. As another commenter said, any crash in that design is guaranteed life threatening without some type of buffer.

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        5 hours ago

        If theres anything Ive learned from the fire departments insistence to have big wide roads so that they can shave off nano seconds to their response time, sometimes theres bigger things than persieved immediate safety to the individual.

        For example, if we all drove Kei trucks slowly on small roads, a collision would not be as bad as driving a big safety focused truck at 80mph.

        Still, your point is well taken. Maybe there are some ways to make safe small vehicles, including trucks, that arent explored yet.

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      24 hours ago

      You need infrastructure to actually support an alternative, otherwise cars are a necessity for many people to get to work and the grocery store.

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      23 hours ago

      Yeah, it would be nice to not need cars. I feel like this is a step towards function and away from vanity. Which is a good thing, even if it’s not the end goal.