Why? If they can't make a vehicle safe enough to not require low speed vehicle standards then they should make their vehicles safer.

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chowells 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Because they can't bear to make vehicles smaller. That's the real terror on American roads. Something like 60% of vehicles are huge because it makes the driver feel better. And indeed, it makes the driver safer in a collision - at the cost of making everyone else in the area less safe. Something has to be done to stop this trend first and foremost.

After that, when vehicle sizes start trending down towards reasonable, we can look at getting speeds up without reducing overall safety.

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jnellis 18 minutes ago | parent [-]

I think the reason trucks are so huge these days is not the ride feel. It's the EPA gives more lenient pollution restrictions based on size of vehicle. So instead of making the engine less polluting, just make the truck bigger and keep the same engine. It's like a cereal box that's only 1/3 full.

	▲	intrasight 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		And you can expense a >6000lb vehicle

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bryanlarsen 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Low-speed vehicles are essentially golf carts. Do you expect golf carts to be safe at 65 mph?

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bombcar 8 minutes ago | parent [-]

Will classify them as motorcycles

	▲	bryanlarsen a minute ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, the other option Toyota had was to classify then as UTV's, like quad bikes and gators. No speed limit, but not street legal either. They should probably do that: sell a variant without doors and with knobby tires as a UTV.