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    Die USA nehmen endlich die aufgeblähten Lkw-Modelle ins Visier: Es wurde eine neue Regelung vorgeschlagen, die übermäßig große Lkw und SUVs eindämmen könnte


    Die USA nehmen endlich die aufgeblähten Lkw-Modelle ins Visier: Es wurde eine neue Regelung vorgeschlagen, die übermäßig große Lkw und SUVs eindämmen könnte

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/10/24241047/nhtsa-rule-pedestrian-safety-fmvss-suv-truck-design

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    1. atdoru on

      This week, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stunned safety advocates by proposing new vehicle rules that it says will help reduce pedestrian deaths in America.

      The new rules appear aimed directly at the trend of increasingly massive SUVs and trucks, which have been shown to be more deadly to pedestrians than smaller and midsize vehicles.

      Never in its 50-plus years in existence has the regulator issued new rules for automakers requiring them to change their vehicle designs to better prevent pedestrian fatalities.

    2. agha0013 on

      A rule that the auto industry will have torn to shreds in a moment, and thanks to the Chevron ruling earlier this year, the NHTSA’s attempts to fix this out of control problem will lead to little if anything.

      The US auto industry has spent a long time trying to convince people that bigger trucks and SUVs are all everyone should ever have, so much so Ford shut down production of everything but trucks, SUVs, and muscle cars.

      Big, heavy, very high margin gas guzzlers that benefit the auto industry, its suppliers, and the oil industry too. Then they wrap it all up in a flag and tell you it’s your patriotic duty to buy the biggest truck you can find for your every day city driving needs.

      So, between industry lobbyists and lawyers crushing the rules, and decades of carefully crafted consumer demand, any rules ot try an address this will face a ridiculous uphill battle.

    3. SpotofSandSomewhere on

      At best this is a Classic case of government overreach.  More likely it’s an attempt to prompt the Left’s green agenda.  

      Let the market determine what size cars we drive.  

    4. Netmantis on

      Would be easy as pie to fix the problem. Requires two things we will never do. End CAFE regulations and repeal the Nixon chicken tax.

      Let’s start with the elephant in the room. CAFE regulations. We have penalties in place for failing to meet pollution standards in automaking. On a timeline the major auto makers can’t hit without going full electric. But we left open light utility vehicles and made sure the standards were more lax. Since the auto makers want the laxer standards and will happily make bigger vehicles to take advantage and tell the public they really want bigger cars we should just implement those standards across the board. Then there is no penalty for making a smaller car that pollutes at the same rate as a giant SUV but uses less fuel and exhausts less gases.

      Next is the Nixon chicken tax. The one that imposes heavy tariffs on light utility vehicles and imported cars in general in response to tariffs against frozen chicken. Repeal that and microtrucks make a comeback.

    5. judgejuddhirsch on

      I thought it was a constitutional right to have a big truck.

      Just call it a weapon and no one can legislate it.

    6. JP_HACK on

      We would have smaller trucks with same cargo space, if they revoked the chicken tax already.

    7. geek66 on

      Where there is demand, and there is demand, there will be significant public resistance to change.

      Want to get rid of large vehicles, make them unpopular…

      Not saying it is easy, esp. now that they have become a “stick it to the libs” political statement.

    8. smack54az on

      I miss my old Ford Ranger. That 1993 small truck had a larger bed than fucking Cyber Truck. I utterly despise modern trucks. If you have a family, just get a minivan, they’re far more practical. And don’t tell me about the new Rangers, those things are an abomination and insult legacy of those great trucks.

    9. swilldragoon on

      How about instead of making a rule regulating trucks and a consumer market people keep an eye out where they are walking and not walk out in front of vehicles? This rule is totally useless and inefficient.

    10. TravellingMills on

      I have seen the ads for both tesla ones and rivian ones and dear lord those are huge. How do people drive them and park them?

    11. RobbyRobRobertsonJr on

      you will eat bugs and ride bikes and you will like it, while the ruling class flies private jets to global warming conferences

    12. tHeDisgruntler on

      Do something about the blinding headlights on those things, too.

      Damn things are4.ft off the ground and as bright as a nuclear flash.

    13. SomeoneSomewhere1984 on

      Here’s an idea, keep it legal to sell such cars, but illegal to drive one without a CDL, following the same rules as a professional truck driver on the job. 

    14. Slylok on

      A little late aren’t we? Have had trucks 4 times the size of my Subaru on the road for a long time already. 

      Better late than never though.

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