Comment on American automakers are losing the race to make more fuel-efficient vehicles
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 6 months agoBuyers feel safer in a taller car, and car dealers are happy to sell this bullshit, even though SUVs are far more likely to roll over in a crash.
stoy@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
The reason people feel safer in a taller car is because of everyone else that has a tall car.
The driving american seems to use the mutually assured destruction doctrine from the cold war as a how to guide rather than a warning.
Worse, this is spreading ocer to Europe as well, though governments are starting to tax heavier vehicles more than normal vehicles, and that is fantastic.
vexikron@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
One of the funniest things in the world to me is that I first saw an Aston Mini in I think the Bourne Identity in the late 00s.
Fast forward to today and there is now an American version, still called a Mini, that is just as big as every other SUV.
motorbiscuit.com/american-trucks-suvs-almost-bigg…
These are not exactly precise, and I cannot believe I am actually citing the DailyMail, but you get the idea:
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