I fail to see a reason to buy a car that would be suboptimal for my personal situation.
Small cars are available, even in the US, but most people aren’t interested in buying them. There are lots of reasons for that. Unless you plan to get draconian about it, people would need a reason to favor small cars.
> So if they don’t need a larger car they shouldn’t have them?
That's nowhere in what I said or in the OP. The OP did talk about pulling "policy levers" to change incentives.
> Small cars are available, even in the US, but most people aren’t interested in buying them. There are lots of reasons for that. Unless you plan to get draconian about it, people would need a reason to favor small cars.
That's basically what the OP is all about.
This is what we’re afraid of. Those policies will cause immense harm and suffering to people who cannot simply buy the small EVs that policy makers want us to buy. The unintended consequences would be devastating to many.