points by 4ndrewl 2 days ago | 0 comments
They conform to EU and UK safety standards (there are enough of them on the roads here to demonstrate that).
Are US safety standards that much higher - seems like a regulatory nightmare over there?
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[–] rsynnott 2 days ago
US safety standards are _different_. Car standards are particularly messy in that a car that's road-legal in the EU probably isn't in the US and vice versa. Mostly small stuff; for instance they'll have different side mirrors.
Producing a version of these cars for US standards likely would not be difficult (every car manufacturer has to deal with about four standards regimes); it's just that they're no reason to do so currently.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-10-mn-54658...
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury on Friday ordered General Motors to pay a record $4.9 billion in damages to two women and four children who were trapped and burned when the gas tank of their 1979 Chevrolet Malibu exploded after a rear-end collision on Christmas Eve six years ago.