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Family responsibility is vehicle spec in a nutshell. That’s all family members in one vehicle. If unmarried, then it’s the other relatives in need. If it isn’t fitted to this purpose, first, the test doesn’t matter (there was no point in being indebted and slave to its requirements).
This is today passed over without comment society-wide. But was understood as central the first half-century in the auto age.
When it is used is also passed without comment. The fault line around here. “Responsible use” is pretty funny. What days of the week or month are you proscribed from using the car? Plan use that way. Would be, itself, useful.
FE is only one marker of low cost. Long life and high reliability trump it, especially when coupled with safety-related statistical data on design.
Choosing FE over safety, . . hell, buy a motorcycle.
Cars subsidize the entire range of jobs, home locations, etc. But they’re no longer cheap. Fuel is still cheap. Why it (and mass produced food ) are cheap is a better avenue to look at the problem. Details over which air-conditioned go kart is tail-chasing.
Car accidents are like being gunshot. Takes once for life to end or be irrevocably-altered. So, add millions of sorta-humans to the population who can’t reason their way out of a wet paper bag to crowd and worsen the roads to make this conundrum more interesting. Fifty years ago they couldn’t keep up with maintenance requirements, today they’re befuddled by repairs but cars of today are able to go tens of thousands without breakdown. Fifty years ago the cities hadn’t sprawled relative to today, and this dangerous segment didn’t cover the roads. Today their percentage representation is past ignoring (by every category worth positing).
Restrict the use. Not the specification. Quit making it about “ME!” If you’re the man tasked with maintenance and some repairs, sure, you should like the car choice. After the vital questions of family need & safety are addressed.
In other words, start farther back in the logic chain. Assumptions will get one killed. Which is better for a family than permanent disablement. (If you don’t understand that, I’m sorry for you).
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