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Originally Posted by sheepdog 44
I think the author would've made a better case arguing against the scale and production requirements of modern cars in general. 3-4,000lbs of raw material with a single occupant in most cases.
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I count myself lucky to have a job driving new cars every month. While I do enjoy the luxury of lumbering around in a 4,000 lb truck-crossover-thing-whatever, every time I drive a supermini, I wonder why we need anything bigger?
If people were to all drive around in small cars with tiny motors, we would have no crash survivability problems. We'd all be going too slow to have that issue.
Later this month I'm getting a fling in the new Suzuki Alto. Still a tiny penalty box, still can't hit anything over 80 mph, but with a real-world ability to hit 60 mpg in (normal) highway driving, what does that matter?