EPA wants to outlaw your future racecar conversion, Time sensitive SEMA Press release Options

[okieflyr]

FYI: The EPA wants to eliminate your future street race car conversion option.

This is not new news to some, but the white house petition is time sensitive.


SEMA Press release:
https://www.sema.org/sema-enews/2016/06/epa...s-into-racecars


Whitehouse .gov petition:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/...cles-racecars-0

[horizontally-opposed]

Was thinking about this this morning, actually, as I walked by a taxi parked in a driveway from the night before. Kind of a fun job, I imagine. That's probably grass is greener thinking, but I could see enjoying it in some ways. However, I imagine it's a job that will be disappearing, what with Uber in the short term and autonomous cabs in the long run.

The future of the car probably has everything to do with safety and liability was my next thought. If driverless cars will truly replace driven cars in the next 10-30 years, my guess is people won't buy or own cars, or few will. All cars, or at least a great many of them (especially in population centers) will be taxis.

That may turn car manufacturers into "fleet" makers. If car sales become largely or strictly B2B, styling and driving dynamics will be far less important than sexy things like safety, passenger comfort, and efficiency. The biggest question and driver may be liability, and that may come down to insurance. Which makes me wonder about privately owned cars, and what that will look like. Perhaps they'll be just as legal to own and operate as they are today, but the insurance may become prohibitive.

I hope I am 100% wrong.

[914_teener]

Was thinking about this this morning, actually, as I walked by a taxi parked in a driveway from the night before. Kind of a fun job, I imagine. That's probably grass is greener thinking, but I could see enjoying it in some ways. However, I imagine it's a job that will be disappearing, what with Uber in the short term and autonomous cabs in the long run.

The future of the car probably has everything to do with safety and liability was my next thought. If driverless cars will truly replace driven cars in the next 10-30 years, my guess is people won't buy or own cars, or few will. All cars, or at least a great many of them (especially in population centers) will be taxis.

That may turn car manufacturers into "fleet" makers. If car sales become largely or strictly B2B, styling and driving dynamics will be far less important than sexy things like safety, passenger comfort, and efficiency. The biggest question and driver may be liability, and that may come down to insurance. Which makes me wonder about privately owned cars, and what that will look like. Perhaps they'll be just as legal to own and operate as they are today, but the insurance may become prohibitive.

I hope I am 100% wrong.

Wow...I think you are 80% correct.

Part of the reason for the revaluation of crude and uncertainty of valuation of capital. But...internal combustion isn't going away anytime soon.

I don't know about "sexy" and "styling" since it give us a sense of "importance". Who knows what that will look like 30 years from now.

The technology is certainly there already.

Used to be that everyone (that could afford it) had a stylish buggy with a fancy whip and fringe on the top.

Henry Ford thought of a way to market and produce the automobile that the "average" person could afford.

Horse and buggy's went by the wayside.

Things change. Embrace it.

'Murican history (IMG:style_emoticons/default/flag.gif)

Porsche content:

Makes my teener more valuable and old....like me.