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Re:Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose great... by xyst on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:39PM (#38268457)
Why can’t CAFE regulations just be modified to include these modern SUVs and trucks?

If the exclusions are removed then the manufacture cafe ratings across products will go down. Thus be forced to be more efficient and sell smaller cars.

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Re:Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose great... by kelnos on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:54PM (#38268696)
Because no one in power wants to make the cars that most people want to buy more expensive.
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Re:Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose great... by Nifty3929 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:20PM (#38269957)
It's slightly different than that. The light truck sales essentially pay for all of the other regulations the politicians want. They regulate all other vehicles into unprofitability, but avoid destroying the manufacturers by allowing them to make all their money on huge "light" trucks.

If they didn't have this exception, they wouldn't be able to enact all the other regulations without killing the auto industry.

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Re:Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose great... by trgn on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:39PM (#38270169)
People are stupid, and tastes can be manufactured. There's nothing set in stone in human psychology that Americans need an SUV. People are only buying because the current incentive structures, convoluted and interwoven as they are, converge in SUVs and trucks as the current default.
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