• Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de
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    14 hours ago

    Europeans also don’t tend to have the headlights 1.50m or more above ground level, because anyone who isn’t 'Murican still builds comparably normal cars and no useless “Trucks”. Even though they also get worse and worse (fuck SUVs).

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        10 hours ago

        Yeah, and the worst thing is that environmental policies might be to blame (to my knowledge).

        Larger vehicles have less strict emission rules. And because “the market” also wants cheap stuff and just making the car bigger is easier than reinventing the engine… a cynic might call this shift malicious compliance by the manufacturers.

        We can only hope this trend is reversable once EVs become dominant, those benefit from less size and weight.

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          37 minutes ago

          No wltp has this for N vehicles but then you need another driving license, except in a few cases. M vehicles don’t benefit from being bigger