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.
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.
We already have them though, in those slow, but still expensive, quadricycles.
Those aren’t real cars, they are an obstacle to traffic.
Those aren’t real cars, they have no A/C (yes, I live down south)
They do have the kind of AC you can wind down by turning a crank handle in the door. A/C is nice, but you can live without it.
The actual problem with those moped cars is that they are too slow to not even impede the relatively slow traffic in cities.
That depends on where you live.
It’s now 29°C where I am (feels like 32°), and if you don’t find a parking spot in the shade (quite likey, given how coveted they are) entering your car will feel like entering an oven.
Yes, I could survive without A/C (we used to in the olden days), but I am not more likely to buy a car without proper A/C than a Dane is to buy one without heating.
They go 45km/h… how fast do you drive inside the city? (I agree that they are slow and a PITA to encounter outside cities)
around here, the typical limit is 50km/h.
In order to “swim” with the flow of traffic, a vehicle should have some margin above the top speed it’s supposed to go.