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But such working cars from home will not be certified to participate at the public traffic and remain toys for driving on own private property.
by kvemkon 9mo ago
But such working cars from home will not be certified to participate at the public traffic and remain toys for driving on own private property.
- _yb2s 9mo agoNo, it is possible to register a homemade car for use on public roads, pretty commonly done actually.
- kvemkon 9mo agoThen I'm surprised. It's much different to the usual situation when even mass made products are either banned or very limited, e.g. unicycles prohibited, e-scooters only up to 20 km/h, e-bikes only up to 25 km/h. Regarding 3D made parts recently there was an accident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46152941. One may expect increasing regulation. At least in the air.
- _yb2s 9mo agoI agree, it's surprising. Even in California of all places, you can make a one-off vehicle at home and register it for legal road use, without even needing modern safety or emissions equipment: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/registering-as-a-specially-constructed-vehicle-in-california.1152488/ https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/registering-as-a... Another even more common strategy is to "restore" a classic car using some extremely small number of parts from some really old pre-emissions and pre-safety equipment car. This is often done for hod rods, dune buggies, etc. where it will be, say a "1930 Ford" but contain only some minuscule amount of that original car it is titled and registered as. There's a sizable industry of homemade "kit cars" that require you to start with a legally registered VW Beetle, but ultimately they often retain nothing except parts of the thin sheet metal floor pan, and somehow that is apparently legal.