First glance reaction: “Oh that’s interesting”

In the ad: “oil pressure kinda low”.

Yes, regulation works. The issue always largely about how regulation is implemented - and how government is perceived. The goal of any regulation should be to guide the country towards a particular objective - whether that is electrification of the vehicle fleet, or simply making buildings safer with fire suppression…

NP - as a nostalgia buy.

It’s getting you through college - buy a used Honda Civic and drive it ‘till it drops’.

Jeeps were all truck chassis designs, so they weren’t held to the same occupant protection standards that killed off convertibles for so many years. 

No. Just No.

It _does_ however represent the return of convertibles to the NA market. 

NP. It seems reasonably well sorted, and hasn’t been thrashed within an inch of its life by some teenager figuring out how to drive.

The V8s were fairly popular, and as they aged people started preserving them pretty well.  The 4 cylinder models didn’t fare so well.  

At a glance, this thing seems quite comparable to the Pontiac Firefly I bought in 1987 as a university student.

My comments elsewhere probably make it clear that I’m not Tesla’s biggest fan for a variety of reasons.

This is NP material for somebody, just not me.

The scope of any nation-level court is to interpret the laws in that jurisdiction. Those laws will naturally be written to that nation’s perceived self-interest - including those in the United States.

US regulatory agencies are notorious for sitting on their hands until the lawsuits start flying.

This was also the era when concept cars were also still about exploring the future of driving, not just models coming out in 4 years or so. Toyota had to do this to overcome the criticism that their “concept cars” were really the next generation products being shown a little early. (and provoking major yawns at auto…

Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t BMW’s larger engines notorious for self-destructing in really expensive ways?  

1) No, I am not arguing a paradox. When I say most people don’t have a clue what autopilot is in aviation, that includes people assuming much more capability than it actually has.

Talk to a few people “on the street” about what they perceive the word to mean.  Few people outside of aviation have any clue what “autopilot” systems do, and their limitations.

Clearly, people _do_ believe it, or these incidents would not be happening.