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/trucks due to DOT regulations and various legal red tape. None of that has changed.

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 some dumb White House press release about cars that will never be built (not because they can't, but because they simply wouldn't sell well) is just more GOP gaslighting.

"We actually took away one of the ways you could get an affordable car and are replacing it with thoughts and prayers. Have the Golden Age you voted for."

AI is designed to take shortcuts in order to improve performance. It's already been caught more than once for example appearing to find problems on an X-ray with a very high rate of success when in actuality it had just picked up on a simple pattern where for example something is dumb as a ruler was included on the X-rays that had the problems and wasn't included on an X-ray that didn't...

Not that any of us have any say in this whatsoever. AI bullshit is going to dominate everything whether we like it or not. Just like how the price of ram has increased by 5 to 10 times and we all just have to suck it down.

We have a very small window left to the side of we are going to live in a society where around 2,000 people get to decide how we live. And we need to decide if having the girl that hands us our coffee say Merry Christmas is worth giving up everything else to those 2,000 people.

You want smart home devices that talk only to a hub you control. You don't want them able to connect to the manufactures network. You don't even want them on the internet at all. If they can only connect to your hub then that's, for most people, the only thing you need to worry about securing. You also don't want Over the Air Updates. Rarely are these to the benefit of consumer.

Z-Wave would also be an option, since it should work like Zigbee and once had a far better manufacturer association but every Z-Wave hub was created by morons

I'm thinking very very stupid. No sprues for casting.

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 meets the age requirements. The main reason they're not more popular is that when all is said and done, you've spent about what it would cost to buy a decent used car that actually has the oomph required to get onto the highway (at least the parts of the highway that aren't perpetually bumper-to-bumper traffic).

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 registered as street legal and driven on roads up to 35 MPH.

I think the 35 MPH road limitation is mostly about wanting to prevent people from impeding traffic. Here in FL you're able to ride a bike/e-bike/e-scooter on any road that isn't a toll or limited access highway, regardless of posted speed limit, at your own peril. Back in my teenage years, a few of my friends and I had mopeds and we'd modified them to hit about 40 MPH to better keep up with traffic on 35 MPH roads. The fact that you're not technically supposed to go that fast on a moped was never actually enforced.

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.

Well, when your little girl isn't toting around her 30 dolls anymore, you can obviously get a smaller car. /s

Not being constitutional has never stopped Trump in the past why should it stop us?

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.

He's trying to solve the affordability crisis he created.

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. Hell you might be better off getting hit on a motorcycle is a small chance you wouldn' Get thrown clear instead of grinded into paste

The other problem is they aren't fast enough for freeways. Even the ones that can hit freeway speeds can't accelerate quickly enough to safely merge.

And of course there are much lower profit so nobody is going to want to make them. If a competitor company started to make them then it would get bought out and shut down similar to how Microsoft buys out and shuts down anyone that threatens their windows or office Monopoly...

It's a completely unworkable solution to a problem Trump created himself.

Joe Biden was on track to do the kind of trust busting we needed to do in order to start getting prices down. He had already gotten inflation to around 2%. But Trump wanted 2 trillion and billionaire tax cuts and to get that he needed to raise taxes on you. So he did tariffs. Basically a national sales tax so he could pick your pocket and put the money in his pocket and the pockets of his billionaire buddies who bankrolled his campaign. Meanwhile he's gotten millions of dollars from the trusts Biden was going to bust. So you can imagine what happened to those investigations...

Affordability is a political problem and we aren't going to solve it by electing convicted felons with multiple credible rape accusations.

You ask a stupid question. Try harder.

Nonsense. But you nicely show the stupidity of the average person here.

First, obviously a self-driving car comes with accountability. It just sits in a different place. And second, most humans cannot adapt to unusual situations either.

The bottom line is that self-driving cars already kill less people per distance driven than regular cars or are close to it. But I guess people like you are fine with people dying just so long you have not adjust to anything new.

Trump wanting something small and cheap? That must be a first in his life.