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Re:America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars by mlsu on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @04:23AM (#39201742)
It's only a deathtrap because driving in the USA you have to share a massive high speed interstate with 2.5 ton SUVs and pickups. With lower speed local driving (the type that would be enabled by more density), and without subsidizing monstrous american-style cars, I think these smaller EVs would be quite reasonable safety wise.
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Re:America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars by SXX on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @04:28AM (#39201781)
Cheap chinese cars are unsafe. It's a fact.

Collision with 3-ton concrete motorway barrier will be deathly in any country.

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Re:America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars by mlsu on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @06:17AM (#39202464)
So are bicycles, if you ride them outside of a protected lane.

30mph collision with a barrier is probably quite survivable in one of these things. Obviously 70mph not so.

Unsafe depends on your environment. I'm perfectly safe biking about 3/4ths of the way to work. As soon as I get off the protected bikeway, it's a deathtrap.

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