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The loophole enabled car makers to produce SUVs but ultimately the consumers who still had a choice between fuel efficient sedans and SUVs, overwhelmingly chose
by mertd 3y ago
The loophole enabled car makers to produce SUVs but ultimately the consumers who still had a choice between fuel efficient sedans and SUVs, overwhelmingly chose to buy SUVs.
- cnelsenmilt 3y agoSure, in the same way that when I'm trying to lose weight and want a snack I will make a choice between a celery stick and a cookie, or I can forestall the choice by not having a cookie in the house in the first place. The story of Odysseus and the sirens.
- replygirl 3y agoExcept in automotive we have options that taste like cookies with all the benefits of celery sticks: hatchbacks and wagons with great cargo capacity, ride quality, driving dynamics, and fuel efficiency. In America we go with the unhealthy cookie even though the healthy one tastes the same, because we don't want to look gay or poor
- DangitBobby 3y agoNot every choice other people make different from you is bigoted.
- replygirl 3y agoI daily a sports car and am shopping for an old Bronco I don't need. Come from a family and community where everyone owns a body-on-frame truck or SUV. I'm just stating the facts
- raverbashing 3y agoYeah, people are quick to call regulation, but the consumers continue to have the choice. It's not like they're obligated to buy a car that's so tall you can run over a child without noticing. And then again, other countries have lower limits on the weight of vehicles you can drive with a regular driver's license.
- CWuestefeld 3y ago> It's not like they're obligated to buy a car that's so tall you can run over a child without noticing. We're stuck in a race to the top. Intuitively, a larger car is safer: if two differently-sized cars are in a crash, the big one will win while the small one suffers greater damage. In the modern age of safetyism, that means that if I'm on a road surrounded by larger cars, I also must by a large car in self defense. Thus, everybody keeps upping the ante, buying larger cars. (FWIW, I don't subscribe to that approach. I favor a nimble and agile car to allow me to avoid a collision in the first place.)
- hoppla 3y agoIs it not a truck license required to drive a truck in the US? It seems unsafe that inexperienced drivers can drive around with «trucks» at park lots
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- zdragnar 3y agoNope. I own a truck (mostly because I do some light forestry work a few times a year that a smaller utility vehicle can't handle) and they're generally perfectly fine for driving. American parking lots are a good deal larger than what you'll find in a dense urban European city. Additionally, the newest models have had 360 degree cameras for a few years now since they're cheap to add and mark up the price by a bit. An inexperienced driver will have an easier time parking one of those than a standard sedan without. It is profoundly stupid to own a pickup truck if you don't plow snow, need to haul things off road, or regularly tow recreational vehicles. With that said, the higher trim models are easily the most comfortable vehicles to ride in that you'll find. I'm 6'4", and I can sit in the back seat of a modern crew cab truck without slouching and leg room to spare. Most smaller cars I can't even do that in the driver's seat.
- jabroni_salad 3y agoYou only need that if driving commercially, but the real barrier to entry is a training program before any carriers will take you seriously as a professional driver. For reference you can drive 60ft of recreational nonsense in most states with a basic license.