States should be taxing or increasing licensing fees on these vehicles to pay for the increased medical services because of these unsafe vehicles.
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In Australia they're registered as trucks, and drivers have to follow truck rules, including special low speed limits on hills, restrictions from minor roads except where that's their destination
This isn't a big impost on them, but it makes them less desirable for people who would use them as daily drivers
In the 1000% range.
The state is actually a big part of the problem in this case. Small gas trucks are effectively illegal.
Automakers were fucking around with vehicle classifications in the 2000s to get around CAFE regulations. Things like the PT Cruiser were being classified as trucks. So starting in 2012, CAFE regulations were changed so that fuel economy standards were based on vehicle footprint. But it had a huge unintended consequence.
Suddenly a Toyota Corolla had less-strict fuel economy standards than small commercial vehicles like the Dakota, S-10, and Ranger. Notice how all 3 models were discontinued by 2012? And now that the Ranger is "back" its footprint is larger than some old F-150s?
As the CAFE standards get stricter over time, manufacturers have learned it's easier to just make the car bigger than to meet the fuel economy standards. They've made the marketing about penisnsize and shit, but it's really more about meeting regulations.
A more recent casualty was small cargo vans. The Transit Connect, ProMaster City, and NV200 were all discontinued by 2022 because small cargo vans can't meet CAFE. This is also why New York had to cancel its new Taxi fleet that was based on the NV200.
How can I get my goods to market if I dont have a long haul bus?
You are up for surprised when you will know blindspot of low level sedan
How would they carry stuff, guns and their alpha male ego? Did you think about that? /s
But what would the people with their small self-esteem do then?
You misspelled penis.
Beat me to it, dammit.
We should start packing nitroglycerin into kids backpacks to force drivers to be more careful. Sure, some kids would die unnecessarily but dead children seems to be a price Americans are very willing to pay.
Didn't that other dude say something similar about gun deaths?
Sure but what if some parents are too lazy or bad with money to be able to buy their children nitroglycerin without receiving government handouts? I don't want my tax dollars helping strangers kids.
/s seems necessary here
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Agreed, we shouldn’t be letting the goddamn ephemeral mannekinder block roadways.
Trying to ban them would be extraordinarily difficult. A potential solution would be to push to reclassify them as trucks, under trucking regulations (I'm unsure how this is done in the US). Once you need a tachograph and a requirement to keep driving records, it would cut back on sales. It also still allows "legitimate" usage. This would weaken the argument against the change.
Basically anything where you can't see a 5 year old within 0.5m of your bumper should be under "truck" rules, not "car" rules.
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