• Someone8765210932@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    If you’re interested about this, here is a video from Climate Town about this topic. He mentions it less than two minutes in: SUV’s are regulated as “non passanger work vehicles” and don’t have to hit the same standards as regular cars and manufacturers can make much more money selling them.

    Of course this is absolutly insane. How does it make sense that 40+% of all vehicles on the road in the US are “non passanger work vehicles”.

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      6 hours ago

      I mean cause and effect is the other way around. Non-passenger work vehicles were mostly work vehicles until they started being regulated differently. Those regulations were clearly a problem long before they created the current situation

      Massachusetts was one of the holdouts: not that they could regulate the vehicles but I still remember when they required a commercial license