Vehicle regulations are typically only for emission standards or exhaust loudness. For the most part as long as the vehicle can do the speed limit there’s very little regulation on the matter.
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UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com 2 months ago
How are there so many things wrong with this vehicle? Like a total recall for the accelerator pedal sounds like the least of their concerns when the car can be bricked by a reboot and the exterior isn’t allowed to have bird shit on it unless it’s removed immediately.
I mean, I know why. But how? Aren’t vehicles massively regulated? How did any of these make it off the production line?
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You’re forgetting the annual safety inspection required in most US states.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s never happened to me in my life. The only time the state ever “inspects” my vehicle is if I’ve already been pulled over for something like my exhaust
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I did say “most” states. I used to work at a car dealer’s service department, and I’ve seen some cars come in where they don’t have a state inspection sticker because the owner just moved from a state that doesn’t do state inspections.
Because of that job, I’ve also seen stickers from other states that do do state inspections. Most of them will be on the windshield either in the bottom corner on the driver’s side or in the bottom center. They’ll list a month and year as numbers (ex. 8 and 24 for August 2024) for when the inspection sticker expires.
So, at least in my state, someone with 8/24 on their sticker would at least need to drop their vehicle off at a mechanic (not necessarily the car dealer, just a mechanic authorized to do state inspections) by the last day of the month. If the mechanic doesn’t do the inspection until the the beginning of the next month, that’s fine. You’d just get a sticker that says 9/25 on it when they’re done.
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 months ago
how brave of you! are you a soverign citizen also?
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Depends on the local laws. It’s not road legal in the EU, for example
ElmarsonTheThird@feddit.de 2 months ago
Even if it were, it weighs 3,4 tons empty. Most EU Citizens have drivers licenses that allow cars up to 3,5 tons max. weight, including driver, passengers and cargo.
It’s impossible to use in the EU without an actual truck driving license.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Truck driving licence” is rather simplifying it.
There are carious degrees of licences between B (up to 3500kg) and a “proper” truck driving licence, CE, which allows you to operate actual full combination trucks.
C1, one above B is basically a van licence, and that’s up to 7500 kg and up to eight people. This is a fairly common licence.
I myself have a C licence, which was also very common to drive when I went through driving school, and it has no weight limit. I can drive a truck of any size, but I don’t have an “actual truck licence” in the sense that I don’t have the CE licence nor do I have the professional licence for a C sized truck. (And I can’t drive buses, those call for a D licence instead)
So basically something that exceeds 3500kg but isn’t a professional vehicle is the only thing my C would be useful for. B class licence is certainly more common, but C and especially C1 are still plenty common.
coarse@startrek.website 2 months ago
Do you guys actually use commas instead of periods for decimals?
hOrni@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You don’t?
Woht24@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’ll change when EVs begin to dominate the market, they all weigh considerably more than their ICE counterparts.
hOrni@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thank god. At least I won’t die of cringe after seeing this on the streets.