A safe, air conditioned kei truck would be great, but I can’t imagine a small truck in America given the current gigantic car culture. Sedans are too small for the American market now, let alone subcompact cars which are already gone.
But they are not banned. If A is banned because it's small, but B is not banned despite being smaller than A, then the logic doesn't support banning of A. Change small for dangerous, if you want.
Problem with banning B (bikes, to not get lost) is that even SUVs are small and fragile to big trucks. Should all vehicles in the road be banned due to its size, except the biggest trucks?
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.
You didn't say anything about "people want" or "people don't want".
> 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.
I think I get what you mean. Never been to the U.S. and was just really surprised about this sentiment.
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 mean that sedans are too small for American tastes. Automakers are phasing out sedans like they phased out subcompacts because people don't buy them. Americans basically buy crossovers at a minimum now.
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".
