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I agree with the spirit of the post - the tanks Americans have been taught to adore are a bigger safety risk than a small car and I love my Smart. However, the standard full size Euro NCAP are performed at speeds not exceeding 60kph. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to require that in order to travel on roads with a 50kph speed limit, the vehicle will not crumple like a piece of tissue and kill the occupants. There is the separate quadricycle test which demonstrates the risks of these vehicles.
The Euro NCAP also have the valuable pedestrian safety tests and extrication ratings.
There are lots of stroads in my (American) city where the speed limit is 40mph or roughly 65kph.
Hell there are a lot of Street roads here where the speed limit is 55 mph the road right in front of my house is 40 mph. Even I think that's too fast 10 years ago when I first moved here it wasn't bad but we've since tripled almost quadrupled the amount of people in the area and now 40 mph is way too fast. I've watched numerous accidents including one where most likely a young girl died two nights ago 50 ft from my house slamming into the back of a parked car.
There's a stroad on the other side of my block that's 35mph (55km/hr), but people rarely go less than 40 (65) and often go as fast as 50 (80)
It's the main reason that my cats are indoor-only
Kph? Kilos per hour? Kilos of what?
Yes I'm a pedant.
Oh... Well the ban makes more sense in that context
It'd be one thing to have a car not permitted on the highways, but that speed would be dangerously slow outside of individual communities and a few of our most dense cities