cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/48712513

Smaller vehicles that do not need to meet the same safety requirements as existing cars could be Europe’s answer to maintaining its automotive industry.

  • MrFloppy@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    26 days ago

    The EU restrictions imposed on L7e vehicles makes them practically unusable. L7e should be allowed to travel at least 100 km/h and carry four people, so that this vehicle category reaches the masses.

    • jenesaisquoi@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      25 days ago

      Please no. I don’t want seven 16 year olds illegally sardined into a shitbox going 92 km/h in the passing lane on the motorway

      • MrFloppy@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        25 days ago

        I wrote about L7e (actual 80/90km/h). 16 years old are in L6e (45km/h), aren’t they?

        • jenesaisquoi@feddit.orgEnglish
          2·
          25 days ago

          Right. My sentiment is the same though. Mixing cars with lunchboxes on high speed roads is a terrible idea.

          And if people won’t use their tin cans outside metro areas then there is no need for a can in the first place, because cities and cars are a shit combination. Cycling, walking, and public transport is the right thing. Look at how the Netherlands are doing it, they have it figured out. And it’s so, so nice to live there.