Maybe they could get approval if they physically disconnected the door handles from the mechanism and forced them to stay locked if the thing bursts into flames…
As American roads are the equivalent of Mad Max in real life, how about the american clown cars pick a fight with my 45 ton european tram?
Does Lemmy have an equivalent to r/bitchimatrain? XD
Only 5,000 lbs? If they get into a collision with a 40,000 lb MRAP they’re going to lose.
Given how ICE is starting to drive around US cities, that’s a real concern that people are going to start having.
Straight up false. It’s easy, in most states. I think all of them.
I saw this video a while back about a few states trying to ban new registrations of them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrTnyWODUT0
There were some states pushing back on the recommendations from some federal thing too…
IDunno what the outcome was.
Afaik, and I’m not 100%, most dropped the issue. PA and I think it was MA or ME, which made the biggest news dropped it. And while I can’t recall specifics most in the community who were pissed off stopped talking about it because it did get better.
Perhaps.
But “dropped the issue”/“not enforcing existing policy” is a far cry from “legal”.
Impossible to do legally in California. The car won’t get past customs here.
