• Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    They don’t meet the us safety standards. It could mean a lot of things like lacking 5mph bumpers, air bags, abs, etc.

    Doesn’t mean they aren’t safe.

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      5 months ago

      Doesn’t mean they aren’t safe.

      At just 31MPH a Kei truck gets absolutely clobbered in front offset and side impact safety tests, even against small vehicles like Smart Cars and the old (small) Ford Rangers. Like don’t bother calling an ambulance just the morgue kind of clobbered.

      Kei trucks are neat vehicles and I’d like to have one but scientific testing shows that they are not safe.

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        5 months ago

        yet people are killed / injured on european road at much smaller rate than in the US. the best US state is less safe than even the worst canadian province (and canada isnt even good). the US treats its roads like a car crash derby so it needs “higher standards”, but that approach is provably terrible. not only vehicules are huge and wasteful, but the roads remain horribly unsafe as well.

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        5 months ago

        Just because a vehicle doesn’t meet us safety standards doesn’t mean they aren’t safe. It also doesn’t mean they are safe.

        Also, aren’t these all 25 years old or older? Safety expectations should be lower.