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Flying car passes its test flight program
On Jun 7, 9:34*pm, Veeduber wrote:
On Jun 5, 7:19*am, harry k wrote: I wonder how they plan to build it to pass the safety and ecological requirements the government reuires to be licensed for the road. Crushability alone seems to rule out anything that could also fly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*----- Perhaps they are planning to license it only as an airplane, with any roadway usage 'incidental to its primary purpose' and therefore no license required as a car, thus none of the motor vehicle requirements. *If that sounds like BS, check your State's licensing requirement for farm tractors and the like. *(Plus lots of interesting case-law with regard to seasonal roadway usage of combine thrashers, cotton pickers, etc. [That is, they use trains or trucks to transport them from north to south at the end of the growing season {wheat & corn make the best examples} but travel south-to-north under their own power, traveling only short distances, usually at night] .) -R.S.Hoover Yeah, I suppose there is no regulation that doesn't have loopholes. I don't see a state making one for a vehicle that can only be used to transport people though. All the others have a primary purpose with the 'road use' both needed and rare (for hours of use). Harry K |
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