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The shoe-shaped things are that way because of crumple areas and pedestrian safety requirements (if the car hits a pedestrian, the bonnet is supposed to deform
by rob74 3y ago
The shoe-shaped things are that way because of crumple areas and pedestrian safety requirements (if the car hits a pedestrian, the bonnet is supposed to deform in order to minimize injuries). Contrast that to the Cybertruck, which...
> ...has received criticism from automotive safety groups, including the Australasian New Car Assessment Program and the Euro NCAP, for not conforming to standards for pedestrian and cyclist safety. In its December 2019 form, the truck would likely not be street-legal in either Australia or the European Union.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Cybertruck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Cybertruck
- hnburnsy 3y agoAre any mid or large sized American pickups sold new in Europe? All I can find is the Ford Ranger.
- orwin 3y agoWell, it depends, but some US trucks have 'safe' versions they can sell in Europe. But you can still find monstrosities that passed regulation.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoWould you consider a Dodge Ram 3500 large? Then yes. Although not via Dodge but smaller companies importing them. Not sure if that can circumvent the EU laws somehow.
- jessriedel 3y agoThe ever-stricter fuel efficiency requirements also impose strong constraints. If the rules were sensible, we would have a taxes on carbon and dangerous features at amounts that reflected their actual negative impact, and the consumer could choose how much they were willing to pay for style. Instead we have a march toward uniform blandness and 99% of consumers don't know why because they never interact with the regulations.
- brokensegue 3y agoActually the CAFE standards allow car makers to pay to compensate for less efficient designs. So we already have what you suggest.
- jessriedel 3y agoNo, because the size of the penalties do a terrible job of tracking the carbon emissions, e.g.: > CAFE footprint requirements are set up such that a vehicle with a larger footprint has a lower fuel economy requirement than a vehicle with a smaller footprint
- devmor 3y agoThe regulations already function as you describe. Changes in car design reflect what consumers are willing to pay for - or at least what manufacturers believe consumers are willing to pay for.
- jessriedel 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38483046 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38483046
- devmor 3y agoDo you think consumers desire lower fuel economy?
- jessriedel 3y agoI think they do not value fuel economy nearly as much as they should because they do not bare most of the costs of externalities from carbon emissions.
- xp84 3y agoYeah. It's simply too juicy to pursue policies that artificially make cost of using petroleum lower. Many elections have been won and lost based on when fuel prices increased or decreased. This means incentives will never be what they should be to be efficient with use of gasoline.
- kobalsky 3y agoAsk enough experts to make a security assessment about the picture of a car and one will eventually say what you want without reservations. The source for wikipedia is a finger-in-the-wind opinion.