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While humans technically can fit inside of petivilleauto, common complaints describe issues of being to small to be comfortable and the seats being not suitable for human frames. The compact nature of Kem cars, generally result in species who are on average bigger than Kemonomimi are generally advised by the automobile industry not to purchase a petivilleauto types of vehicles out of safety concerns and lack of comfortability. Petivilleauto virtually have all been designed and manufactured within the [[Federation of the Southern Coast|Federation]] without exception.
== History ==
=== First Era (1949 - 1967) ===
The Petivilleauto originates are from FPM [[Léonce Fontaine]] suggestion during a cabinet meeting in 1937 about creating affordable cars for urbanites in order to increase consumption spending among the urbanized industrial class, in particular the machinery designers and engineers. As well stimulating the growing automobile industry, and provide small firms with delivery vehicles. The first of theses cars to be built was by the now defunct Coopérative automobile de l'Est, and as the [[Federation of the Southern Coast|Federation]] was still 89% kemonomimi at the time. Was purely designed with kemonomimi in mind.
The class at first was barebones in design and having a manual transmission. The slow speeds of the vehicles and small designs, was not only due to the speed limit laws of the various cities of the [[Federation of the Southern Coast|Federation]] but due to the narrow roads from many of the older cities. The cars could fit the basic needs of transportation as a alternative to public transport. While public transport in the [[Federation of the Southern Coast|Federation]] has always been heavy focus of the country to a near-religious zealotry level, families and pensioners wanted to be able to travel without the need of a fixed schedule. The result of Fontaine suggestion during the cabinet meeting pushed the ideal of having a urbanite car into the mainstream.
Marking the end of the first era was in 1965, as more automobile industries started to focus on increasing the sophistication and comfort of the Kem Cars. While safety features always has a key part of Kem cars, the automobile industry began to focus on improving the Kem cars to be less barebones aside from the safety features. Adding in features that are common in other cars, such as radios and making the transmission automatic. In addition to the increasing of features, Kem cars started to become more specialized with Kem Car food trucks, Kem-Vans and other such specializations.
=== [[Gyllir Motor Corporation|Gyllir]] Era (1967 - 1990) ===
The Gyllir Era was a massive change for Kem Car class for three reasons: Côtois parliament passing a law that makes personal automobiles considered to be a luxury products, therefore completely legal to have capitalistic firms produce them as outline in the Federal constitution, which resulted in the founding of [[Gyllir Motor Corporation]] which in itself utterly changed the automobile industry. Second was the [[Gothic Revolution]], and the social impact of the growing [[Hjørdist Gustafism|Hjørdist]] population changed to public view of what was considered to be a socially acceptable luxury to own. Third was a growing small cooperative and small firms in urban areas needing their own low-cost business vehicles.
The Gyllir Era's petivilleauto marked the beginning of wide spread adoption in urban cities of the country. Where previously Kem Cars was generally own seen in petite-nations capitals. Kem cars became generally affordable to families as a general, rather than being for small business firms and specialized workers like engineers or doctors. While Kem cars never reached the same status as the [[Gyllir Worker]] by any margin. As the Worker was, and still is the most commonly first-purchase car for new car owners. However Kem cars was still bought by families as their second vehicles, due to the affordability of it and incases where the first car is in use. Outside of the first-car purchases, small cooperatives and other firms used Kem cars over normal automobiles. Food trucks becoming synonymous Kem cars in particular, with majority of food trucks being specialized or modified petivilleauto either being a pull-out kitchen setup or hauling a trailer kitchen itself. Additionally, both small and larger firms used kem cars for haul tools or equipment around, with the first workshop Kem car being released in the 1980s by [[Gyllir Motor Corporation|Gyllir]] to large success within the small cooperative and single-employee business sector.
=== Export Era (1990s - 2016) ===
The Export Era is generally considered when Kem Cars started to become sold outside of the [[Federation of the Southern Coast|Federation]], with the largest manufacturer of Kem car exports being [[Gyllir Motor Corporation]]. Primary being exported to nations with kemonomimi majority nations or significate enough population to warrant a export to, however curiously enough [[Tavaris]] (and current day [[Tavari Union]] members outside of [[Tavaris]]) became a frequent importer of Petivilleauto class of vehicles and Dwarf majority nation of [[Dvergerland]]. The export era, in particular the later years resulted in a growing interest of hybrid Kem cars and later in 2010s being fully electric. The era additionally moved Kem cars away from the bare-bones plus safety original designs to include more features similar to normal automobiles. Such as cruise control, heated seating, GPS functions and so forth. While still maintaining the low-cost price of the automobiles, and importantly the societal view of the Kem Car being a acceptable luxury within the [[Federation of the Southern Coast|Federation]]. As while features increased for the petivilleauto, it was still seen as acceptable by mainstream society to own one despite already having a car in the first place.
=== Smart Tech Era (2016 - Ongoing) ===
Smart Tech Era is generally considered to start in 2016, when [[Gyllir Motor Corporation|Gyllir]] released a new series of special Kem Cars had built-in [[Jotun]] (and their subsidy Jætte) smart-phone features. The 'smart tech Kem Car' involved a smartphone connection, that provided the radio connection, GPS and most impactfully Jo-Kjøre application full interface. The Jo-Kjøre application at first provide various features for driving, was the first GPS and phone application that provided warnings for speed traps, traffic delays such as pileups or accidents. Later on starting in 2018, the Jo-Kjøre app in certain Kem Cars became incompletable without the a [[Jotun]]/Jætte phone connected to the car, because the Jo-Kjøre application became the Kem Car's dashboard. It was sold both as a cost-saving measure, as not only the Jo-Kjøre app acted as the dashboard, but it also feed into safety features and the GPS built into it.
== Legality in World ==
=== [[Tavari Union]] ===
Kem cars are not uncommon in the [[Tavari Union]], where they are almost entirely linked to the politically and socially controversial institution of [[Child labour in the Tavari Union|child labour]]. In some cases children as young as 12 can be employed in the Tavari Union, though the absolute minimum driving age is 14. In the Tavari-speaking world, [[Orc|orcs]] are the majority species, and while adult orcs are almost universally too large to comfortably fit inside a Kem car, orcish children often can fit in them. With their small size, limited speed, low cost, and high level of engineering focus on safety features, Kem cars became popular for use by children for work-related transportation needs because, unlike something such as a golf cart, a Kem car can be legally driven on city streets. Kem cars are used, for example, by children who are street vendors to bring their cart or equipment into town for the day, or by children who are employed as domestic workers at a home that is not served by public transportation. They are also used for transport just within a single work site or property, where a driver's license would not be required anyway.
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As in the Federation, Kem cars are prohibited on expressways in the Tavari Union. In Tavaris, they are also generally prohibited from crossing provincial boundaries. Kem cars are issued special number plates that immediately identify them as unlawful to drive on expressways, and they are required to be outfitted with reflectors and caution signs.
=== [[Dvergerland]] ===
Kem Cars are the de-facto vehicle of choice for [[Dvergerland]] due to the size of the cars and the affordability of them. In [[Dvergerland]], dwarves are majority species and majority vehicles produced in the world either require heavy modification or being custom made all together. However Kem Cars only required modification is to change the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_(device)# governor] and other minor modifications to make the vehicles worthy for rural areas. The result how of common of the modifications, various Côtois automobile manufacturers have responded to these changes by making making the changes themselves at the factory purely for [[Dvergerland]] exports.
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