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One educational thing about the cybertruck is that it’s revealed the US doesn’t really have crash safety standards. Nothing is keeping Americans from driving pickle cars!

As much as Americans like to pretend we’re all very unique and individualistic and all that - we’re incredibly conformist and financial concerns keep us so. Both on political matters and things like this.

American here! In schools we wear uniforms, follow the same codes & guidelines, all held to the same standards, and are taught like robots. We dont learn based on our interests or talents, we only learn one universal curriculum that's decided on by politicians, not educators.

We overdid that in the 1960s/1970s hippie-van era. During the late-90s-early-00s, the SF Bay Area had a lot of art cars from the Burning Man crowd. My Kia Soul had the option of coming with hamster footprints, but those cost a lot extra.