[catawbasam]

It would meet a need in the US if restricted to low-speed roads, eg for older drivers. Maybe young drivers and low-income people too. At low speed you just don't need a lot of the fancy stuff.

[dymk]

What are these low speed roads you're talking about? I'm not aware of any laws that allow a car to not have airbags on public roads based on speed.

The closest thing I can think of is e.g. communities that have dedicated paved roads (which don't allow normal cars) for golf carts to putt around.

[crooked-v]

You seem to be unaware that low-speed vehicles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-speed_vehicle) exist as a legal category.

[crooked-v]

Vehicles for that already exist in the US, like the Polaris GEM line: https://gem.polaris.com/en-us/street-legal-carts/

You just don't see them because nobody in the US is willing to restrict the usage of normal cars, even where it's obviously needed.