America’s next family car might look a lot like a golf cart

A new generation of small electric vehicles is betting Americans are ready to rethink how they get around. But there’s one big obstacle: roads built for much larger cars.

For decades, automakers have been designing cars to look like they have faces. Headlights resemble eyes, grilles look like mouths, and the shape of a hood can give a vehicle something resembling an expression. That is, of course, no accident. Designers have long played on our tendency to see human features in inanimate objects, giving sports cars aggressive scowls and family-friendly vehicles softer, more approachable expressions. The idea is to make us feel something about a car before we ever get behind the wheel. The Lamborghini designer Mitja........

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