Accettare gli standard automobilistici statunitensi metterebbe a rischio la vita degli europei

It is up to American manufacturers to follow European standards if they want to sell cars in Europe.

Sure if we speak about safety standards, but otherwise owning a car in Europe is like you’ve committed a crime and you’re waiting for trial…

Europeans need to understand that the US has two vehicle standards: passenger cars and “light” trucks (the latter to differentiate against “heavy” commercial trucks).

The US standards for passenger vehicles like cars (sedans/saloons, coupes, wagons, etc.) and crossovers and -some- small vans and pickup trucks are similar to European and Chinese standards (although not enforced of late).

Large pickup trucks and SUVs, typically “ladder and frame construction” and having a higher Gross Vehicle Weight are exempt from the safety and environmental standards for passenger vehicles. This is the loophole that has allowed the proliferation of large, inefficient and deadly vehicles on US roads.

tldr; Europe is only screwed if they accept the US loophole exempting trucks, not the actual standards.

edit: link to old (2004) Gladwell article in the New Yorker that summarizes the loophole

https://www.insuranceobserver.com/PDF/2005/090905.pdf

A very useful pickup truck for driving on some streets built in the middle ages…

I drive a 1992 Chevy in the US. Idk why anyone would want to drive a pickup in Europe. I can’t even properly use the roundabouts in Seattle because the turn radius and wheel base is so wide.

Volvo had to adapt to US laws to sell there, kinda feel like they should do the same to us eu peeps

Mark Rutte: Daddy wants a response before noon tomorrow.

Nationalism clouds you. What standards does the rest of the west even have that aren’t nearly identical in most regards to Murica?

It would have been one thing to just say ‘we don’t want muscle cars and other vain models that are frankly stupid and bad for the environment’ – but when the ‘bad for the environment’ part is something that plagues this whole rock and isn’t unique to America, it really shows a vain mess that is no different than what you believe we portray.

No, US cars wouldn’t risk European lives. You just want to feel superior and self sufficient when that very loud commenting only goes to betray that very sentiment itself.

We won’t get far as a species quipping and squabbling like this. Just an observation

the streets in my town are already congested with regular euro SUVs; these american tanks would be a disaster for everyone, including their poor drivers.

Just make sure licencing standards require heavy vehicle licence and nil Blood Alcohol while driving, and not allowed in Loading Zones. Suddenly very unattractive.

Titles like this are always strange to me. Not saying there aren’t ways that European cars aren’t safer but the opposite is also undeniable true. There are definitely things on both sides that arguably don’t actually make the car safer like the passenger seat sensors here in the USA or some of the driver monitoring stuff in the EU. Having said that even those sensors basically force the passenger to wear a seatbelt. I always find it interesting how many cars are illegal to even import here in the USA because they refuse to go through the vast crash safety testing required which I would guess is the same for the EU. Sometimes you have to ask is the car as safe as they say it is if they aren’t even willing to have them extensively crash tested. Regardless of what side of the pond you are on I hope we won’t see more real driver safety stuff get rolled back like it has in the past compared to some of the practically virtue signaling stuff they add nowadays.