How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania

Re:How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania by Gordonjcp on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:10AM (#36756538)

> But a 30mph head-on collision with another vehicle will almost certainly kill you in one of these trucks.

A 30mph collision in the average American SUV will kill all the occupants too, because they have absolutely no safety features.

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Re:How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania by ghaff on Monday July 17, 2023 @09:22AM (#36757945)

Except for airbags, seatbelts, crumple zones, automatic braking, etc.

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Re:How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania by Gordonjcp on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:18PM (#36760064)

Yeah, they don't really have crumple zones, that's kind of the problem.

"Look at how strong this truck is, it survived an accident with barely a scratch!" just means it transferred all the energy to the wet squashy piles of mixed meat inside.

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Re:How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania by nequo on Monday July 17, 2023 @01:05PM (#36760841)

The NHTSA publishes safety ratings for every vehicle. You can look at their crash test reports. The 2021 Chevy Tahoe[1] and the 2020 Ford Explorer[2] are comparable to the 2022 Toyota Corolla.[2] The photos clearly show the presence of crumple zones.

In each of the PDFs, you can find the occupant data summary on page 6 and the photos starting around page 42.

[1] https://nrd-static.nhtsa.dot.gov/reports/vehdb/v10000/v11300...

[2] https://nrd-static.nhtsa.dot.gov/reports/vehdb/v10000/v11000...

[3] https://nrd-static.nhtsa.dot.gov/reports/vehdb/v10000/v10600...

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