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Encartrus t1_j5v1mq7 wrote

Left unsaid, pretty much all of those add-ons would make it no longer street legal, and no insurance company would possibly be willing to take the risk on a driver who buys an offensive vehicle for common use. These are a dumb novelty item for the too-rich-to-live crowd and are fated to live in the third bay of mini-mansion garages across the red-belt.

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smurfsundermybed t1_j5v6xt4 wrote

The add-ons exist to get deposits and will quietly become unavailable or available at a future date if the thing gets close to production. This article will be aggregated, leading to more exposure, more deposits, another round of investments, followed by increasingly infrequent updates, and ultimately, a YouTube video about what happened to the company.

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GrandWizardZippy t1_j5yk0hy wrote

There are others that are already out and in production for a while like the tank that have all these features, are street legal and totally insurable

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KletterRatte t1_j5vlhug wrote

The article said that at 40+mph 100% of SUV crashes resulted in a pedestrian death, compared to 50% of normal car crashes. It sounds like a new definition of ‘street legal’ already needs to be made

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TequilaCamper t1_j5z07uk wrote

100% means if you crash an SUV into a tree in the middle of a forest, a pedestrian somewhere still dies

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Twoyurnipsinheat t1_j5v8lk2 wrote

At the rate we seem to be going these features will be a service.

For $119.00 a year, uou can add the pepper spray attachment and fog horn.

Additional fog horn tones available for purchase.

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Dollaruse t1_j5yrqp4 wrote

> no insurance company would possibly be willing to take the risk on a driver who buys an offensive vehicle for common use.

Much of this tech is in cars already, such as in South Africa, and it helps reduce the cost of your insurance policy.

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Ban-Circumcision-Now t1_j60q390 wrote

so are all the “off road use only” lights on half the Jeeps and trucks, but nobody is enforcing it

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rookie-number t1_j62k351 wrote

Not necessarily offensive. How else are you gonna get thru a protest thats turned ugly?

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