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Comment on Tax breaks for huge US-style utes cost Australians over $250m in foregone revenue in 2023.

My biggest complaint is the ANCAP rating system.

Since these vehicles are classed as Light Commercial Vehicles, they don’t need to be rated.

Meanwhile other vehicles are getting lower and lower ratings because they wouldn’t survive being hit by one at full speed.

The ANCAP system needs to be recalibrated for real world use. If a pedestrian gets hit by a 1200kg vehicle, they are in for a bad day. If a pedestrian gets hit by a 3495kg vehicle in the same circumstances; no more pedestrian, and the oblivious driver of the Ram wouldn’t even notice that they hit something.

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pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
ANCAP shits me.

The side impact test is done at 1600kg. A small < 1000kg car is expected to take this kind of hit, while these stupid monster trucks don’t even have to punch half their weight.

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- Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  My other complaint is that ADAS systems weigh heavily in their ratings, but most factory ADAS systems are barely functional, with false positives and false negatives.
  
  Many drivers use Advanced Driver Assistance Systems as a substitute for driving skill and paying attention to traffic conditions.
  
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- Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  ANCAP don’t even do their own testing. They literally just copy ENCAP ratings.
  
  That is why so many vehicles in the Australian market are unrated.
  
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quoll@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
ahh like how we banned a bunch of perfectly safe kei cars …com.au/…/imported-kei-cars-stranded-australia-bl… :\

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- Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Our country must be an international laughing stock by how many of our drivers are incompetent.
  
  If you watch a few episodes of DashCams Australia, you will see some of the worse road-users in Australia, and they are all either oblivious or entitled and don’t give a shit about anyone else.
  
  Considering how few people don’t have DashCams and how DCAU don’t show snuff films, there must be hundreds of other incidents where they either weren’t caught on camera or were unable to be published due to fatality or serious injury.
  
  Also, international manufacturers struggle to keep up with demand for replacement car parts; I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some production schedulers asking themselves “why are we shipping so many parts to Australia for major collision repairs?”.
  
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