Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size

• boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Will it? Modern small cars are huge compared to old small cars in Europe too. Because of crumple zones and safety equipment. You used to be able to get a VW Golf that was 3.7 meters long and weighed like 800 kilos. Same car now starts at nearly 4.3 meters and over 1.2 tons.

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  • theolodis@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But still, the biggest SUV in europe is merely average by US standards

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure, but my point was that Europe doesn’t prove the “cars got bigger and heavier because of safety regulations” statement wrong. Obviously cars in the US got even more bigger and heavier than needed for safety, but safety regulations in the EU have also made EU cars bigger and heavier.

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• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  the cars they have in europe/asian are illegal here.

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