• Dateline NBC 1996 Minivan Crash Testing (https://youtu.be/QNNkAvT6lns)
Then again, maybe more domestic vehicles should be illegal.
Not that I'd feel all that safe in it. The cabin is essentially a matchbox.
Some states make it pretty hard to register these vehicles too, you don't see very many kei trucks in California because they're too hard to register; import shops exist in California, but tend to sell to drivers in other states.
The problem is that banning key cars for their size or fragility is logically inconsistent. Banning now smaller vehicles like motorcycles and bikes is a patch to wrong logic. This is just targeting a specific kind of car because some reason that the regulator doesn't want to disclose.
> How can a car be to small for your streets when there are bikes and whatever also driving around?
Can also be presented as: if bikes are driving on roads, cars can't be too small for roads (because they are bigger than bikes).
So, bikes being on streets doesn't mean they are big enough for roads. Your whole sentence is "non sequitur". What I want to say: small cars can be too small for USA roads independently of bikes being too small for USA roads. People wanting to drive small cars or bikes is also independent and being allowed to is also pretty much independent.
Now, my opinion: I think you should be allowed to drive small cars, I have a small car too (and a bike), but existing usage of roads in USA by increasingly big cars makes it increasingly unsafe (in USA). I agree that USA should do something about bigger and bigger cars, but I have no idea what and it's not very probable that I will ever drive a car or a bike in a big city in USA, so you can safely ignore my opinion and drive whatever you like.
Some people drive tiny single seat cars here in Europe and I never considered that particular dangerous for them or anyone next to the relative way bigger cars that are common.
I see tiny Fiats, Volkswagen beetles, Smart Cars, and other very small vehicles all the time. I live in a rural area filled with lifted pickups.
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that "there's a trend toward larger vehicles, which can make smaller vehicles somewhat less safe" means "no one is buying or selling anything smaller than an F-150".
Not as small as these but way smaller then pickups and handles like a big car. Hybrid awd model is coming this year
Of course, some kei trucks manage a 6 foot bed in the 11.2 length maximum.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-comparisons/?veh1=402004783&veh2...
The Maverick is a cool truck, but feels more like a passenger car that can do light truck duty when needed. Whereas the a kei truck is really all about utility.