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...both things can be true?
For the record I'd love to get a Kei truck. But they like... don't have airbags lol
My point is that the Cybertruck is unsafe, and it's on the market. So the American car market clearly doesn't require safety, it's just a marketing point.
You are missing the point, the cyber truck will kill/maim/damage pedestrians (no biggie), cyclists (no biggie) and other cars (darn, gotta deal with insurance) most of the time! It’s a feature for the kind of people that buy them.
I think we can all agree that Cybertrucks are a bit of an outlier here. I mean we used to ridicule vehicles with safety this poor. But yeah I wouldn't want to be on the freeway in either a cybertruck or a kei truck. But moving stuff downtown would be perfect for them - basically give them moped permissions.
Why not? Because everyone else is in a truck so large they wouldn't be able to see you?
Not a problem here in Europe. Wiki says they can do 120 ungoverned. Seems fine enough. Large commercial trucks, as in "semis" to Americans, but even the smaller Large Heavy Goods vehicles, as in lorries in Britain, aren't allowed to do more than 80km/h on the freeway. I'm sure the Kei trucks can do that even when encumbered.
The other huge vehicles are a factor, but you're fine doing 120 without airbags?