Trump Wants Asia's 'Cute' Kei Cars To Be Made and Sold In US (bloomberg.com) 166
sinij shares news of the Trump administration surprising the auto industry by granting approval for "tiny cars" to be built in the United States. Bloomberg reports: President Donald Trump, apparently enamored by the pint-sized Kei cars he saw during his recent trip to Japan, has paved the way for them to be made and sold in the U.S., despite concerns that they're too small and slow to be driven safely on American roads.
"They're very small, they're really cute, and I said "How would that do in this country?'" Trump told reporters on Wednesday at the White House, as he outlined plans to relax stringent Biden-era fuel efficiency standards.
"But we're not allowed to make them in this country and I think you're gonna do very well with those cars, so we're gonna approve those cars," he said, adding that he's authorized Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to approve production. [...] In response to Trump's latest order, Duffy said his department has "cleared the deck" for Toyota Motor Corp. and other carmakers to build and sell cars in the U.S. that are "smaller, more fuel-efficient." Trump's seeming embrace of Kei cars is the latest instance of passenger vehicles being used as a geopolitical bargaining chip between the U.S. and Japan. "This makes a lot of sense in urban settings, especially when electrified," comments sinij. "Hopefully these are restricted from the highway system."
The report notes that these Kei cars generally aren't allowed in the U.S. as new vehicles because they don't meet federal crash-safety and performance standards, and many states restrict or ban them due to concerns that they're too small and slow for American roads. However, they can be imported if they're over 25 years old, but then must abide by state rules that often limit them to low speeds or private property use.
"But we're not allowed to make them in this country and I think you're gonna do very well with those cars, so we're gonna approve those cars," he said, adding that he's authorized Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to approve production. [...] In response to Trump's latest order, Duffy said his department has "cleared the deck" for Toyota Motor Corp. and other carmakers to build and sell cars in the U.S. that are "smaller, more fuel-efficient." Trump's seeming embrace of Kei cars is the latest instance of passenger vehicles being used as a geopolitical bargaining chip between the U.S. and Japan. "This makes a lot of sense in urban settings, especially when electrified," comments sinij. "Hopefully these are restricted from the highway system."
The report notes that these Kei cars generally aren't allowed in the U.S. as new vehicles because they don't meet federal crash-safety and performance standards, and many states restrict or ban them due to concerns that they're too small and slow for American roads. However, they can be imported if they're over 25 years old, but then must abide by state rules that often limit them to low speeds or private property use.
Huh? (Score:5, Insightful)
Duffy said his department has "cleared the deck" for Toyota Motor Corp. and other carmakers to build and sell cars in the U.S. that are "smaller, more fuel-efficient."
Why would they want more fuel-efficient vehicles to be built? That completely undermines "drill baby drill". It's the same reason he doesn't want electric vehicles built or wind and solar power generation.
I would say it would be nice if they could get their stories straight, but when you're dealing with someone with dementia, that's not a reality.
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Don't be silly. Trump hasn't experienced any ethical decline.
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Putin is so smart he outsourced his destroy America plan to Trump
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I would say it would be nice if they could get their stories straight, but when you're dealing with someone with dementia, that's not a reality.
I think you are confused. The corpse of Biden has shuffled off the stage.
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This your guy?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/02... [cnn.com]
https://newrepublic.com/post/2... [newrepublic.com]
https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com]
Here's video of cheeto falling asleep white people continue to kiss his ass. https://people.com/donald-trum... [people.com]
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Insightful)
Car companies could sell midrange, mid-size cars, toyota sells these in pretty much every country on the planet, but they're nowhere as profitable as selling a $12,000 truck with a lift kit and leather interior for $55,000. Those vehicles exist but they've stopped selling them in the us because theyve found they can just exclusively sell high margin cars instead and maximize shareholder value
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Plus, I doubt many people here have had the experience of shopping for something like a Mitsubishi Mirage.
The car was terrible in fit and finish, and barely had enough power to get out of its own way.
The dealership was sketchy and advertised a bunch of discounts that only existed in their imagination, when all is said and done the bottom line price felt like a crime against nature.
Unless you had a pile of cash that you're willing to drop on what is objectively a pretty lousy car, you're going to have to fin
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I think you’re limited here in that your frame of reference is only what was offered on the US market. Lots of the rest of the world has always had access to fantastic smaller cars, and still does. In the UK, for example, just this last year we’ve had launches of the R5, the Inster, the eC3, the Epiq, with plenty more to come, like the Twingo.
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and barely had enough power to get out of its own way.
Why do you need power? How badly designed are your roads that a small 3 cylinder 1000cc engine car can't safely reach highway speeds on the onramp? You want a racing car fine, but don't pretend that power is something anyone actually *needs* to commute to work.
Also I knew someone with a Mirage back in the day. The fit and finish matched every other car in its price range and was perfectly adequate for the purposes of going from A-B. I recommend not living in it, and maybe not using it to ferry Saudi Princes
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If people can buy a new car for not much more than a used one, and it's more efficient and comfortable, they just might.
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If people can buy a new car for not much more than a used one, and it's more efficient and comfortable, they just might.
Not certain if you are referring to the weird used car craze we had a few years back here in the USA. Covid times. At the time, I had a Jeep Renegade. I was at a dealership known for decent prices. At the time my care was 2 years old. There was an identical Renegade they were selling for something like 3 thousand over what I paid.
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Think that's still going on. We had to replace our minivan recently, and I got a three year old Odyssey for only slightly less than what it cost new three years ago. And that was very much market price, we couldn't find anything much cheaper. Of course a new Odyssey would have cost 25% more.
The situation is insane right now though, with a lot of people completely priced out of the market. And then there's people who shouldn't be spending $70K on a pick-up (for example) who are doing so anyway because they t
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That's not the main reason. Kei cars are meant for specific purposes and destinations. The trucks are meant to be light duty work trucks first and commuting second. The cars are meant for commuting in densely packed urban environments. In Japan and other countries, there are specific regulations for them. Since they were made for specific countries, this is why pass they don't pass safety requirements of US roads.
Conforming to existing safety regulations would be a challenge, and it would be require Congr
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Follow The Money.
Dementia is not the problem you think it is.
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Almost like grandpa has lost his marbles and someone should take his keys.
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He spewed gibberish a solid decade ago https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch... [snopes.com] and lots of people said this would be a bad idea. But the smooth brains doubled down and here we are. The emperor has no clothes.
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Even the summary gives some context to this, which is that it's about lowering fuel emissions standards in the supposed belief that this will somehow make small cars legal (uh, what?) So, it's still dumb.
And I'm not praising Trump for some slightly positive thing he might have said any more than I'm going to praise a certain German dictator of the 1930s for building an interstate highway system, improving the trains, and starting a company to make small affordable wagons for the volks.
Look, in the end, we k
Trump supports American made Kei Cars?!?!? (Score:2)
Definitely one headline I was not expecting on my 2025 Political Bingo card.
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What happened in 2020 and who was President that year?
Also Trump beaten by Obama yet again. Hell yeah.
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Are you claiming that inflation was the fault of Biden? You do know what happened the year before Biden took office, right? That continued for two more years and caused supply chain issues that wreaked havoc on the entire economy?
Also throughout 2021-2024, despite all of this, we had full employment. I'll take temporary inflation over unemployment thank you, even if it's not been US policy since Carter decided to adopt monetarism.
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Was Trump doing global worldwide tariffs of 20-300% on almost all imports of every type his first term? Were those the ones kept?
From Volkswagon to Trumptruck (Score:5, Insightful)
Wanting a "people's car" was inevitable.
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Honestly if it gets Americans to stop driving oversized pedestrian murdermachines then it may actually be something positive to come out of his administration. I mean to be clear it won't happen, and even if it did this isn't the intention, but still wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where America's pedestrian accident rate was *not* increasing?
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Hey, if they don't have an Internet tether to the mother ship, don't have a big stupid screen that controls everything, and don't cause sticker shock, they will do well. Hopefully the big ass-hat car manufacturers that create overpriced cell phones on wheels garbage will take notice. I won't even consider a new car today with the absolute shit that is being offered, not to mention the price raping.
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Just because they *can* make a product segment does not mean that they will.
Besides, if GM got to work today, they might have a viable product in 4 years. And in that time, the already viable products being made by Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi, etc. will already be here serving the purpose because they already exist and all they need to do is roll a few thousand of them into a container ship.
Besides, if your average car buyer in North America wanted smaller, they already would be buying smaller vehicles than
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And in that time, the already viable products being made by Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi, etc. will already be here serving the purpose because they already exist...
Come on, has the last 12 months not taught you anything? Clearly Trump would add massive tariffs to the import of those vehicles to allow the domestic manufacturers a chance to catch up.
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Just because they *can* make a product segment does not mean that they will.
Besides, if GM got to work today, they might have a viable product in 4 years. And in that time, the already viable products being made by Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi, etc. will already be here serving the purpose because they already exist and all they need to do is roll a few thousand of them into a container ship.
Besides, if your average car buyer in North America wanted smaller, they already would be buying smaller vehicles than the giant crossover shitboxes they are buying. It's not like you can't find a Corolla Hatchback if you want to.
I'm not certain about what you think the average car buyer here is - certainly in my area of PA there aren't a lot of large vehicles - unless you consider a Jeep large. And where I live, 4WD is nice to have around the house. Our weather can be chaotic. There are the occasional Suburbans, but the huge truck craze is largely gone, after they priced themselves out of the market. You have to be pretty wealthy to buy one of those 100K trucks.
But a city car, the tiny things, they really aren't all that practic
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Spoiler alert: There never was any law saying you couldn't build small cars here in the USA.
They don't sell well here in the US because people with poor credit and/or limited budgets tend to buy used vehicles rather than stripped-down new models.
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It's also a cultural thing as in my experience, there are quite a few Americans who look down on small car drivers. I feel certain at least part of that is people associating small cars with being low income. Another part likely comes from whatever is motivating so many Americans to buy ridiculously oversized vehicles most have no legitimate need for.
It's all ridiculous of course but we're a very car centric culture.
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How on earth does that data refute what I said? There's no reason Corollas selling 232k units a year and my statement can't both be true. It doesn't have to be a universally held stigma for what I said to be true.
Just look at our small car sales versus almost any other first world country. Something has to explain the massive disparity in sales.
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The modern Corolla isn't exactly a "small car" anymore. It's almost as big now as the Camry was in the mid-90s.
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Spoiler alert: There never was any law saying you couldn't build small cars here in the USA.
Not explicitly, but crash survivability regulations make Kei cars illegal in the USA.
Unless Trump pulls the US out of the treaty that he signed (USMCA), any small cars will be built in Mexico. If Trump pulls the US out of that treaty, many other prices will go up.
But this is really just another brain fart from Trump. It won't happen.
They are popular in JP because they work (Score:2)
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Here in Florida, there's a retirement community called "The Villages". It has on occasion made national news for various old people antics (plus, it's Florida, so...) and you may have already heard of it.
Small golf carts and golf cart-like vehicles are extremely popular there. They work because the community was designed with dedicated cart paths and the people who have retired there tend to be fine with vehicles that cost less to maintain. Florida also allows UTVs and golf carts to be modified and regis [flhsmv.gov]
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I'm fascinated with the number of posts in this thread saying something along the line of "these cars' engines are too weak to get to highway speeds"
Coming from anyone in the US where the highways speed limit is notoriously low, I find it pretty laughable. I drive a 20 year old Yaris Verso (Funcargo in Japan) by choice - it's the b st car built in the last 40-50 years and it took me a year to find my latest one. In any case, it's got a 1.3l engine - tiny, by US standards - and I find I must
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In fact, in the U.S. the 0-60 time is a huge marketable property of vehicles, or it was anyway. I donâ€(TM)t watch tv anymore to get ads. That is what sold early Teslas here was showing it could do 0-60 in 3 seconds.
It was at least one of the few highly
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Oh boy, does it show the influence of advertising...
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Isn't it a well established slahdot tradition to go off on tangents (although my remark was still related) ?
It's part of his shrinkflation play.. (Score:2)
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The Trump adminstration has released a video of how these vehicles might be used in America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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True! Also make the license and registration and insurance on these more agreeable to those less fortunate.
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Would love to have one (Score:4, Informative)
Personally - I'd love to have a Honda N-One E but I'd never drive that on a highway. It would be a good local commuter vehicle.
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Some of the local orchards use them along with the usual ATV four-wheeler vehicles. They on the road as well, but the speed limit is only 50 MPH anyway. Off the highways they do fine. They carry two people and a decent collection of tools just fine.
Canada should build them too! (Score:2)
"It's all computer!" (Score:2)
"It's all computer!"
Finally. US needs a real small pickup (Score:2)
We haven't had a descent small pickup in the US since Toyota redesigned their pickups for 1996. The Toyota pickups 1984-1995 were the best.
I want to see these for sale in the US.
https://www.carscoops.com/2023... [carscoops.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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The Ford Maverick is not great, but not terrible.
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Bugger! [youtube.com]
Paywalled (Score:2)
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The links are called Slashvertisements. The "summary" is the first paragraph from the link.
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Nice car. Don't want it. (Score:2)
I got to drive one of these in Japan earlier this year in a controlled environment (no international license)... it had some really nice tech that I wish my car would have in the US, fantastic fuel efficiency, decently comfortable, and under 10kUSD.
But I absolutely would NOT want to drive it in the US. Based on my experience when I was being driven around, the highways in Japan move at like 50MPH. I wouldn't want to be in a collision with another vehicle of the same class at those speeds in a vehicle like t
Motorcycles and Sidecars (Score:2)
Small death trap in bad accident (Score:2)
How about allowing Chinese EV here ... (Score:2)
US entry-level car prices have become ridiculous since COVID when the manufacturers have found they can make more money by selling fewer cars at higher prices.
If Trump actually wants to help Americans, then how about allowing Chinese EVs to be sold here, and without tariffs. Some start below $5,000, and for $20,000 you can get something really nice.
Re:Like His Fat Ass Can Fit In One (Score:4, Funny)
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I don't think this document holds nearly as much weight as you think it does.
Re:Like His Fat Ass Can Fit In One (Score:4, Informative)
I mean at this point Trump has wiped his ass with the Constitution so many times it's going to take a full rewrites to get the shit stains out.
Assuming We don't have a third term of Trump. He might be too senile. Multiple doctors have mentioned that it's likely the bumps and bruises on his hands are from an IV drip for an Alzheimer's medication. And if he's that far along he's not going to make it to 2028.
Re:Like His Fat Ass Can Fit In One (Score:4, Interesting)
There is absolutely *no* Alzheimer's medication that can halt a patient's progression in a clinically meaningful way. I love the idea of him clinging to false hope, though, as his mind erodes.
(The best drugs for Alzheimer's are capable of slowing the progression of a single symptom, memory loss, by six months. So if he started on them at 78, then by age 83, he'll have the memory he would otherwise have had at age 82.5. The effect is so small it can only be detected in population studies. There's lots of trials, but there's also lots of grandiose claims that never go anywhere)
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There are Alzheimers drugs that can slow the deterioration through, which is almost certainly what was being referred to.
Source: personal experience, I have a close relative on it. Also https://www.mayoclinic.org/dis... [mayoclinic.org]
(Disclaimer: I have no evidence that Trump actually does have Alzheimers beyond the rather weird behavior he shows regularly, but I'm not sure they'd let him out in public if his symptoms were severe at this point. My relative started showing signs ten years ago, but we didn't realize because
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I am not entirely sure why I failed to notice you went on to cover those drugs. I saw the denial and assumed the rest was on that, which was dumb of me. I apologize!
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Trump is what you get when your party sucks at communicating.
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You should probably put more effort into winning the election next time.
Trump is what you get when your party sucks at communicating.
That's only one of the reasons the Dems got their asses kicked in 2024. How bad can a party be when an Orange shitgibbon gets (re)elected as a result of party "missteps"?
Fix is not too difficult:
Come back closer to center
Reclaim the working class rather than reject it.
Lose the misandry
Lose the rejection of science and biology.
Back off a bit on the pop culture worship.
Be more actually inclusive. If a party claims inclusivity yet casts out those who I noted above, you ain't inclusive. Finally, don'
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How bad can a party be when an Orange shitgibbon gets (re)elected as a result of party "missteps"?
Really shitty. I'm arrogant so I do want to point out the obvious: Trump won the primaries and became the candidate for the Republican team because the Republican party is shitty.
Both parties are really shitty.
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How bad can a party be when an Orange shitgibbon gets (re)elected as a result of party "missteps"?
Really shitty. I'm arrogant so I do want to point out the obvious: Trump won the primaries and became the candidate for the Republican team because the Republican party is shitty. The Republican Party is a bunch of cowards. I've met enough politicians to know that. Trump's a bully, and since they won't stand up to him, they do as he orders. Trump is also the opposite of what conservatism was. Let's not forget either that in general, Republicans are incompetent, and lie every chance they get. Spend like Drunken sailors when they are in power, Bitch and moan about things like balanced budget when they aren't.
Both parties have different forms of shittiness, as you note.
Don't worry, our Doge checks will come in any day, and boy howdy, Cheeto has whipped inflation's ass. Best economy ever, things are getting cheaper by the day. Or maybe not. Both parties are really shitty.
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Lose the rejection of science and biology.
I think you mean "stop discussing science and biology above a grade 10 level."
No, I mean the concept that biological sex is an option. I'm right around the center of teh left right spectrum, and I understand that genetics can determine if someone iOS male or female, and that has become a real stumbling block for the Democrats, Ask Seth Moulton, who when he said he didn't want biological male running over his daughters. The Democrats tried to cancel him, make him resign, even though his voting record was favoring their positions on other matters.
So they ended up twisting themselve
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But, somehow it turned into "Biden is forcing us to do
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Biden/Harris were going around saying they wouldn't trust the vaccine. Governor Newsom was throwing large dinner parties after telling everyone to socially isolate. That's a strong indicator of people who don't care about science, and that's why they can't do better messaging than Trump.
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That's an example of why they have really bad messaging, because they are more interested in politics than in science/reality. That leaves room for someone like Trump (the reality TV star) to do better messaging.
Biden/Harris were going around saying they wouldn't trust the vaccine. Governor Newsom was throwing large dinner parties after telling everyone to socially isolate. That's a strong indicator of people who don't care about science, and that's why they can't do better messaging than Trump.
The rejection of science and reality went pretty deep. The strange agenda that men and women are defined by what they say they are was not quite sane - fortunately that has cooled down now. Ironically, it placed women back to the tyranny of men, after all the work women did to become equal. And getting death threats if you dare to say that genetics is the determinant factor. Or at the very least, utter rejection if you say that if an adult wishes to modify their body to pretend that they are the other sex
Re:Like His Fat Ass Can Fit In One (Score:4, Interesting)
> the testimony of children damaged by the invasiveness of transitioning and paying dearly for the results of surgery and injection of powerful chemicals
Stop. Fucking. Lying.
This blood libel against trans people needs to be recognized for what it is. A step towards the agenda of ultimately committing the mass murder of trans people - just as Project 2025 argued for.
(For those confused, no surgeon would perform a sex change operation on a kid, even if they wanted to, they would lose liability insurance, their hospital would refuse to give them the facilities, their hospital would also lose its liability insurance if it didn't even assuming it was OK with it which it wouldn't be, and we'd hear non-stop about lawsuits from these kids once they reach the age of 18. As for "chemically transitioning", hormone therapy is safe and reversible, and not generally given until pubity, and pubity blockers may have minor long term consequences, but if you're truly in favor of making sure people make the decision when they're old enough, then they're the only thing on the table. You literally have to be in favor of them or opposed to letting them make a decision when they're old enough, you can't have both positions simultaneously.
Also note that these are only given to kids that have attempted suicide. That's why they got in front of a psychiatrist in the first place.)
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Now, now. There's no need to bring in the ability to believe la Presidenta into this. Anyhow, we need to check the fine print to see where the trail of bread crumbs leads back into his pockets.
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Trump wanting something small and cheap? That must be a first in his life.
Well, when your little girl isn't toting around her 30 dolls anymore, you can obviously get a smaller car. /s
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Trump wanting something small and cheap? That must be a first in his life.
Well, not if you include females.
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We should ensure his fat ass is hauled in one in the not soon enough state funeral
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The cognitive dissonance is so funny. You guys would normally love this, but ... lol
As always with the pedo protectors: Every Accusation is a Confession.
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To be fair, I've seen at least one comment so far where someone said they'd be happy to buy a smaller vehicle if they were offered for sale. Really though, the president doesn't decide these things - the bean counters at the domestic auto manufacturers do. And if they had decided that making cheaper, lower profit margin cars was something they wanted to pursue, they'd already be doing it. There never was any law against it.
Mostly what people are getting confused on was that we can't import new Kei cars/t
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we can't import new Kei cars/trucks due to DOT regulations and various legal red tape. None of that has changed.
So, change it.
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Rolling back emissions standards one day and then calling for small fuel efficient cars the next doesn't make much sense.
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It has nothing to do with small cars that the dealers will refuse to sell, it is about rolling back the crash safety standards.
Even after all these years of this shit, Americans are still to stupid to see a bait-and-switch staring them in the face. There is little hope for the future.
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To deal with the affordability crisis. It doesn't work because if you get hit in one of those by an American SUV you might as well have gotten hit on a motorcycle.
That's a reason to ban "American SUVs" not the Kai cars. One of the flaws in the crash safety rating for personal passenger vehicles is we are only considering how well vehicles protect their passengers, and not how much risk vehicles pose to other vehicles in a crash. We should be banning or limiting the speeds and restricting highway use o
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If you ban SUVs people will drive converted full sized vans and large cab pickup trucks.
My suggestion is not ban SUVs entirely, but require additional permitting heavily discouraging of consumer use. Restrict who can drive them when and where at what speed, and what for purpose. You may need an expensive permit, And take additional training to certify to a higher class large vehicle driver's license, for example.
Full sized vans and large cab pickups for personal use outside licensed work trucks or delivery
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There's only a vehicle affordability crisis if you're unwilling to buy used. You can still get used Chevy Bolts with brand new replaced batteries for around $12k. I'm not gonna shill for the dealership since they're not giving me a commission, but it's frequently mentioned on the Bolt subreddit.
Back when the used EV tax credit was still a thing, people were snagging those cars for about $8k before taxes and fees. Getting rid of the used EV tax credit was a huge blow against affordability, and putting out
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No, the Trump administration just rolled back CAFE standards assuring the automakers will continue to be able to sell large, expensive SUVs and trucks into the future. Why Trump commented on kei cars is anyone's guess. Regardless people in the US will mostly reject them should any auto manufacture attempt to push them on the public.
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Only someone with a death with would drive a kei car in the USA.
It'd probably do just fine in I-4 traffic between downtown Orlando and the attractions area. In fact, I think I could probably keep up with traffic on my e-scooter that maxes out at 20 MPH. Of course, I'm joking about the taking the scooter on the highway part, which is obviously illegal. Not joking about that it technically could keep up with traffic, for the most part.
I've actually seen quite a few of the Kei trucks here that people drive around town. They're not illegal to import if you get one that
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Bicycles?
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....que people taking these on the highway. While there are some vehicles allowed on our roads that can't go on the highway few in America are used to a car that can't be.
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....que people taking these on the highway.
Then pull them over and write a big ticket. You are not allowed to take a scooter on the highway either, yet you can still buy one.
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He wants them all to match his own.
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Why? They allow those electric bicycles on the highway.
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I think most limited access highways don't allow bicycles of any kind.
That would require some sort of enforcement in the face of a possible riot by Critical Mass. The law may say "no", but the realities of enforcement say, "Go ahead, kid."
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The law may say "no", but the realities of enforcement say, "Go ahead, kid."
I think that depends on where you live. The laws against pedestrians and bikes on limited access highways are very strictly enforced in most places they exist.They certainly are at least as strictly enforced as he speed limit. I think most bike advocates would argue that the restriction is not really needed. But I have never heard of a critical mass protest on a freeway.
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There was one Critical Mass in the late 90's that went on I-80 at the San Francisco end of the Bay Bridge.
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They used to haul in a few cyclists now and then for riding across the old Evergreen Point bridge (Washington SR 520). Because there was no provision for cyclists or pedestrians. The nwe bridge fixed that.
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Besides kei-cars can't pass the safety standards in the US anyway.
And electric scooters can?