cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40818280

If there’s anything we should take from Japan, it’s treating cars like second class citizens behind transit instead of the other way around. The cute tiny cars are more a side effect of that.

  • unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    How is their inferior safety not relevant to the discussion? Personally I would love it if more people drove smaller and less polluting cars, but not if they’re death traps. If you’re willing to have drastically reduced car safety in exchange for a modest reduction in environmental impact then I guess we just disagree on that point.

    • AlexLost@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      They aren’t death traps though, that’s the thing. They aren’t motorized coffin makers either though. Also, shouldn’t it be my choice to drive something safer or not? What happened to free choice? I can still choose to buy a compact that won’t survive an encounter with a f250?