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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 10 points 1 day ago

First, the “SUV loophole”: under US law, most SUVs are classified as light trucks, meaning they’re subject to less stringent fuel-efficiency and crash-safety standards than passenger cars.

This has always been baffling to me. Make the standards universal and I reckon people would make very different choices.