that's the story I suspect.

Ohh I'm aware but you do know that it was the insurance lobby that brought the NHTSA into existence in the first place on the heals of Ralph Nadar's "unsafe at any speed" with the 1966 National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act and 1970 highway safety act?

The intent is to heat the rubber... but it only works with R compound tires.

They do... just hasn't gone so far as to protect you from killing yourself.

The radical is street legal in europe...

its perfect... but part of me wants to see it with thrust vectoring.

Nope... it's that insurance companies puppet the NHTSA to prevent me from being able to buy a car i know could kill me but i don't really care.... AKA the sub 2000lb car without air bags and a roof that has to support it's own weight etc...

they lobby the shit out of them...

yeah but you also don't buy spoke wheels because of their puncture resistance... (quite the opposite)

Got ya... so a face palm kind of trend...

but now they aren't pretty :-(

The problem is if you spin any of these at highway speeds and they get ANYTHING in them they will vibrate like hell and possibly damage other vehicle components... So once they come up with some kind of transparent sidewall for them... sure.. they'll be great...

How light are they expecting it to be?

When you convince insurance companies that sub 2000lb cars are like motorcycles and the people just die rather then rack up expensive ER bills they may let you do it...

Cheetah is obvious

Lol yeah the GC hell cat... i don't think the little one could handle it...

1.) Added Lightness

Jalop party?

Neat idea but that car is already small and moving the firewall forward like that would have my knees 2" into the dashboard.

So they're basically aligning the stator and rotor magnetic fields so 0 torque is applied and 0 back emf is generated so they free wheel and they're calling it "torque sleep"