This is no caricature and to scale. Guess which one of the two vehicles is not available in the US and which one is not available in the EU.
This is no caricature and to scale. Guess which one of the two vehicles is not available in the US and which one is not available in the EU.
Capital only serves capital. If small cars made more money they’d push them in their advertising and there would be more available.
Capital used regulatory capture to make large, profitable vehicles more available, then sold people on the idea that they needed one.
Small cars are dangerous because larger cars can crush them.
This is the legitimately the logic.
The world is an insane asylum.
That’s true in a world of cars, not in one for people though where the driver of the small car sees you and might hurt you if they screw up while the driver of that big ass pseudo-tank(*) just kills you without having ever realized you were there.
(*)scrap that: actual tanks have better visibility than those idiotic US trucks never hauling anything…
Safe for the occupants, not pedestrians
There’s also the ads that show big cars as capable and rugged, associating them with positive imagery.
This subconscious suggestion is then justified by making it a safety issue.