Re:Car Engines: The incredible shrinking machine
by the_mitsuhiko on Friday December 11, 2015 @09:56AM
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Insurances and the state need to pay for this which is why kei style cars are outlawed on most roads in europe. Don't forget that the speed likit anywhere in japan is 60km/h so the problem does not exist there. The speed limit in europe on highways is 130.
If there was a market for kei cars they would exist.
Re:Car Engines: The incredible shrinking machine
by thegp on Friday December 11, 2015 @11:25AM
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German here, what is this "speed limit" you talk about?:)
But yeah, kei style cars are redundant in Europe because bikes, scooters , minis, nowadays car sharing, public transport and more space exist.
It's the end of days for human-driven cars anyway. With self driving cars, it seems as if the cars will be bought and owned mainly by large companies (and hired out to end users), so the companies will be able to experiment much more aggressively with different designs and force manufacturers to make them.