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Re:How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania by smcl on Monday July 17, 2023 @04:47AM (#36755643)
Hasn't this caused an arms race of sorts where these trucks get bigger and bigger to the point where now some models have worse visibility than enormous M1 Abrams tanks: https://carbuzz.com/news/the-abrams-m1-tank-has-better-visib...
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Re:How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania by Dalewyn on Monday July 17, 2023 @06:10AM (#36756143)
It's definitely one of the reasons cars in general have gotten bigger, you can't deny that better survivability in crashes is good marketing material. Trucks are just among the larger of them.
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Re:How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania by mlyle on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:39PM (#36760407)
Yes, but it's only better survivability in two-car crashes, and it makes the overall survivability worse. The social cost is greater than the private benefit.

IOW, it's a market failure (externality).

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