LOL - good luck with that. Ship registered under some flag of convenience in a country that could not possibly care less. The port they sailed from means very little in Maritime law - look what is going on in Baltimore right now. And leased at that. The only guy really responsible died in the thing too. The company…

“But don’t be surprised if you are turned into chum.”

I don’t have to. That’s on the customer. If I was in Germany, I would be looking for a TUV seal, in Canada the CE seal, etc.

Sure, now get all the nations in the world on board with your code. 

Yes. All the regulations in the world aren’t going to stop hubris. 

Regulations may not exist (and I think they do) but physics sure af does, and it takes no prisoners.

Change regulation to code.

Here’s what I think is needed. Not regulations but a code.

Didn’t one of their own safety officers refuse to certify the vehicle? And the company that made the port window? Forget regulations - they couldn’t even convince their own people to get on that death trap.

Regulated by whom and how? This was an experimental craft in International waters. “Standards” for them don’t exist. Good luck with that.

It seems a common question is “why aren’t these regulated”.  I’m thinking how difficult it would be to create and organize a regulating body that would then have to come up with standards and means of enforcement for something that goes into bodies of water in all kinds of different nations territories (or…

Why?

The issue is that there’s so few of these vehicles and they’re all such highly built with significant differences in max tolerances, regulations doesn’t exist for them... And there’s also already ratings for submersibles capable of reaching various depths. Titan was not one of them for reaching the titanic depth.

That grille and headlight combo looks infinitely better than the one in the picture at top. Putting headlights into fender flares (which are ostensibly designed to absorb impacts) seems like a “Friday before happy hour” idea (or whatever the equivalent is in Korea). 

overthrow the government of a small country?  https://special.kia.com/en/main.do. No idea how to order a new military truck from KIA. 

Korea and the US have a tariff-free trade agreement, so the chicken tax argument is DOA, 

Korea and the US have a tariff-free trade agreement, so the chicken tax argument is DOA, unless Kia follows everyone else’s lead and build it in Thailand. Yes, even China, because SAIC (MG, LDV) and Great Wall are building pickups there.

Unless they build it in North America to get around the chicken tax, nope, it won’t come to the US.

The Kia truck I really want:

Weirdest??