Comment by black_puppydog

> There must still be a limit to how much size and weight a rider is willing to tolerate.

This is true for bikes, and after decades of marketing and fearmongering, basically the inverse is true for cars.

I'm saying this as a european non car-owner who's never been to the US, but my impression of car brain from over here is that anything that approaches light-weight is seen as a "death trap" by a majority of US drivers, especially because the rest of car users drive cars that literally have the size of WWI tanks.