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Quite simply US car manufacturers don't have to make their cars as safe, as a result they include bare minimum safety requirements to pass regulation and save o
by celticninja 11y ago
Quite simply US car manufacturers don't have to make their cars as safe, as a result they include bare minimum safety requirements to pass regulation and save on costs. As another poster says it also seems that they do little R&D in this area either, again probably to save costs and to be able spend money designing more inefficient trucks for single occupants.
- Retric 11y agoThat's only part of it, US law requires safty systems to designed around for an adult not using a belt which results in a less safe car when someone wares a belt or is not an adult male. PS: EU microcar are terrable in high speed crashes, but there not designed for high speed driving either. So it's generally not a real world issue.
- celticninja 11y agoWell thats some dumb regulation right there. There is a law that requires people to wear seatbelts and then you make another law that says design safety equipment as if people are ignoring the original law. This penalises law abiding citizens to protect those who decide to ignore the law and not wear a seatbelt.