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Originally Posted by Hersbird
Then why aren't things like airbags, backup cameras, tire pressure monitors, side impact protection, etc, etc, optional instead of mandatory? Elio themselves will be on the hook legally at the first death when the family shows they marketed it as a car when they knew it was a motorcycle. McDonald's can't sell hot coffee because it apparently burns you when you spill it on yourself.
I don't agree with any of this but it's not my dream, just the reality of the USA.
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Where and how is it marketed as a car? At most they are trying to get it classified as an "autocycle" which is an enclosed 3 wheel motorcycle. And they are doing that for the purpose of getting around existing helmet laws.
What they do is draw comparisons to cars in ways like weather and crash protection. Not selling it as a 3 wheel car, but rather a 3 wheeled motorcycle with some of the benefits and features that cars have. Their efforts with a crash safety rating is one of the efforts in that direction to convince the traditional car buying populace to consider their vehicle.
Why are 2 wheel motorcycles even sold without legal issues when fatal crashes with them are pretty common? By that metric, an enclosed motorcycle with airbags, roll-over protection, 3 wheel stability, weather protection and possibly ABS brakes would be markedly safer. yer just blowin smoke.
However, all that is going to be moot if Elio doesn't get off his a$$ and get this thing into production... and soon. Like somebody else said... something to the effect of If Elio doesn't build it, the Chinese will... And they will get the foothold on it. In marketing with things like this, timing is everything.
Elio needs to look at the clock and stop with the stupid gushing about how pretty and neato cool this thing is going to be...some day.
tick... tick... tick....... CLANG!!! CLANG!!! time's up!
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Elio is setting up to be flattered and flattened severely.
Anybody wagering on who will be first with significant production?