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Re:Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs by tgsovlerkhgsel on Thursday November 30, 2023 @10:50PM (#38482905)
An obvious, easy solution would be to allow car makers to classify a vehicle as either a "car" or a "truck" (once classified, it cannot be reclassified without the car maker being subject to the worst of both worlds).

Cars can be driven with a car driving license.

Trucks can be driven with a truck driving license, or CDL, or have to be registered by a company, or _whatever licensing requirement makes it perfectly feasible for people who need one for work but enough of a PITA that private individuals don't bother getting it_.

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs by rpmisms on Thursday November 30, 2023 @11:44PM (#38483233)
Except that in all of America that isn't a city (most of it), a truck is a super useful tool and requiring a CDL would basically be a bad joke.
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Re:Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs by themoonisachees on Friday December 01, 2023 @04:48AM (#38484991)
And yet trucks are huge without a material increase in bed space. If the auto makers can skirt around the law to make everything a truck, surely In this hypothetical, they would make smaller trucks and make them "cars"
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Re:Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs by rpmisms on Friday December 01, 2023 @10:10AM (#38487607)
You'd pretty much have to repeal a ton of safety laws. Today's Tacoma is the size of an f-150 of 20 years ago, but still can't tow or haul as much. Gotta deliver practicality!
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Re:Tesla Cybertruck Pricing and Specs by bombcar on Friday December 01, 2023 @06:28AM (#38485587)
The C in CDL is commercial - and that license can be required for a car, and individuals can drive bus-sized RVs without one.
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