Furthering that they are indeed not the "Pro-Life" party but instead the "Pro-Birth" party.

This is kinda misleading, the complaint is that cars are too expensive. They're not saying cars should be less safe, just that the extra safety isn't worth the financial cost.

(Still not a good position to take in my opinion)

This is the only excuse for the massive inflation of new car prices vs. rate of wage increases over the decades. I will give auto engineers props for this accomplishment; cars are so much safer now than 30 years ago.

Jesus fuck! What the fuck is it with these fuckers!?!? really? Cars are too safe!??! WTF?

I am guessing they want to deregulate the safety laws so that they can take the money that they spend on it and stick it into their pockets and still keep the price of cars the same!

Replace seat belts with piano wire and make air bags with 50x the explosive charge but replace the airbag with ball bearings.

Instead of patching over the rising costs, maybe we can move to living in communities that aren't so dependent on such a costly, depreciating asset for every home?

Car Companies: "the regulations are so big and heavy and workers cost so much munnies. Pls let us do less QA on the vehicles mandatory to live in america."

Republicans: "CRUSH MORE CHILDREN, who would dare inconvenience these poor sweet automotive corporations?!"

Anyone paying attention: "Yall know aside from oil companies, car companies are the most ridiculously subsidized companies on earth?"

American safety standards have led to an insane game of cat an mouse wherein I need my car to be bigger to keep me safe. But my bigger car is more dangerous to you. So you need a bigger car to protect yourself from my dangerously large car. But now I need a bigger car to protect me from your giant car.

And 30 years later everyone is driving around a 60 thousand dollar crumple zone so tall it can't see pedestrians over the hood and needs a 6 liter engine just to move.

Same for child seats. Planning on having 3 kids under 10? Better plan on a truck or van with a 3rd row, because somehow, you can't fit seats 3 small children in the back seat of a family sedan or crossover.

Cars in some ways are too coddling, giving people a false sense of safety. All these new features like lane keeping and blind spot warnings make people drive with reckless abandon.

My siblings in sin, American cars and street scapes are dangerous for everyone.

Yes Ted Cruz I totally believe that if they got rid of these Safety Systems cars would magically get cheaper. No one should doubt that for a second Ted Cruz. There's no way they'll just get rid of the safety system and then pocket the extra the proceeds. Ted Cruz would never be for that I'm sure.

I agree with them whole heartedly. When they remove seat belts, they need to be the first to become a pavement puddle.

I've been seeing a lot of weird culture war coverage around this, even more than usual these days. Big fan of cheap, simple, accessible technology and tools. Cars are tools. Less components and less complexity means they are cheaper to produce and maintain. Bring back the econobox, the car I'm hype for is the electric equivalent of a 94 Corolla

I say YES!

GOLF CARTS FOR EVERYONE !!!

Cheap, light, small, no computer, natural airflow, what else?

Cars can never be too safe. What I want is a car with no computers or telemetry whatsoever. I want a car that is private with how I use it. Like what they were pre 2000s. Just a hunk of metal to go from point A to point B.

Maybe if American "cars" were actually car sized, they would need a lot less material to be made, and require a less powerful cheaper motor to move all that metal around.

Clearly not the onion. My right wing father (not Republican because we are not American and he's technically a monarquist) complains that cars are too expensive due to the mandatory security features. Features that he has on his fully equipped Porsche because he wants to be safe, obviously.