"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.

  • hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    They refuse to make another like it!

    Unfortunately, thank CAFE regulations. It’s basically impossible to make a tall boxy car in the US that meet the regulations, because fuel efficiency targets are based almost purely on how long and wide the car is. It’s way easier to make a car bigger than it is to make it more fuel efficient, so unfortunately that’s what manufactures have to target.

    While I’m all for efficiency regulations, CAFE is so unbelievably stupid that it desperately needs to be reworked.