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> We should temporarily abandon car safety requirements, to reduce weight and complexity and get EVs to people earlier. Nothing says short-sighted like "we hav
by InitialLastName 4y ago
> We should temporarily abandon car safety requirements, to reduce weight and complexity and get EVs to people earlier.
Nothing says short-sighted like "we have a problem now, so let's create a 10-year scourge of death-traps."
- mrfusion 4y agoIndeed, I’d think a lot of our long term problems are first created as panicked solutions to short term crisis’s.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoWe'd need to abandon a hell of a lot before you start making a difference in safety that's big enough you don't need to torture it out of the the data. Stuff like backup cameras weren't even brought into existence for many of the types of vehicles they find themselves in. How many people are really sitting in the back seats of these subcompact cars and how many people is the back half of the side curtain airbag really gonna save?