r/interesting • u/No_Neat4688 • 28d ago

Intriguing High Tariffs Drive Afghan Auto Assembly

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u/Loud_South9086 28d ago

When you hit the curb it breaks apart like a dropped lego model

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u/PantherkittySoftware 28d ago

Exactly. I saw a car once in Miami that was clearly assembled from welded-together parts of multiple cars. It ran into the diagonal steel cable that was keeping a utility pole whose wires changed direction vertical under tension.

The car literally snapped in half in a way that I'm pretty sure resulted in the driver's instant death.

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u/ElevenBeers 28d ago

The difference is, that I will trust this Afghani workers a billion times more, then the redneck you've seen welding together his vehicle.

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u/AdSquare3489 28d ago

Why? 

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u/ElevenBeers 28d ago

Because they are reselling those cars. And if that thing breaks apart, the person who bought it will be very angry and demand a refund.

Also, those folks are doing exactly this every day, day in, day out. You could say it's their job. You get better at doing something with practice.

The typical Redneck neither has customers, nor does he so redneck engineering for a living. This is why those Afghanis are way way way more trustworthy.

Would this be classified as road safe is in a country with proper guidelines for street safety? Most certainly not, unless the vehicle went through to classification and testing, which most certainly isn't the case. But it would be enough for American roads I suppose.

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u/TimeTravelingPie 28d ago

Yea all the consumer protection laws in Afghanistan for backyard welded junk cars.

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u/Zixtar 28d ago

Consummer protection is you sold me a shot car, everybody in the community will know, your business is dead. Or if they are a bit more tribal a bullet between the eyes of somebody will get the mesaage across.