http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/ Engadget Comments for Tesla Roadster gets out of air bag requirement for green behavior http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
This is not some auto company conspiracy, its just fact, otherwise some bankrupt auto manufacturer would have done it by now to get out of the hole.]]>Jan 29th 2008 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
If people are worried enough about this or that (safety or other) feature, they'll purchase a car that has that feature: if they're not, why force them to? ]]>Jan 29th 2008 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
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And half as many wheels: CBR600RR.

Stop being such a nancy boy and stay in your Volvo.]]>Jan 29th 2008 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
That'll learn those damn uninsured drivers.]]>Jan 29th 2008 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
With no-fault insurance, you only ever deal with your own insurance company, so you could care less if the other person is insured. Except car insurance is also mandatory in Quebec, so we don't even have to worry about not having to care.]]>Jan 29th 2008 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 30th 2008 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
It's a fact that the increase in CAFE standards over the passed 25 years and led to THOUSANDS of additional traffic deaths in collisions, due to cars being lighter and more fragile. Just to make that point crystal clear: The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, in its most recent data, shows a correlation of 250-500 fatalities per year per MPG increase every year CAFE standards have been law.]]>Jan 29th 2008 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
Do these numbers also show the increase of SUVS in the market and sharing the road with smaller cars as well? Ever see a Chevy Suburban hit a Geo Metro?

SUVS are causing the increase in accident related car deaths in this time frame. The auto industry created the myth that you would be safer in these roomy, tank like cars. In some cases, yes you could be safer in a SUV vs. sedan/compact. Not so much in SUV vs SUV. Also, SUVS are prone to roll overs that can lead to more accidents as well.]]>Jan 29th 2008 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
Wash your hair, get a job and look into growing up a bit.]]>Jan 29th 2008 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
Can't argue with that logic...

O_o]]>Jan 29th 2008 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Throwing insults and stereo types instead of using logic to refute their arguments.
While were throwing insults and stereotypes, why dont you get back in your Hummer and drive home
to worship at your George W Bush shrine, while listening to some Rush Llimbaugh. Then go work on your plan to
Bomb Iran, destabilize the middle east and help start WW3.
BTW...Im not left wing, nor do I have patchouli dreads or tidi shirts. I just think your obnoxious and closed minded.

More power to Tesla, I hope their technology helps make green vehicles for all kinds of needs (whether those needs be economy car, sports car enthusiasts, or people like farmers who ACTUALLY NEED a big truck for their livelyhood) ]]>Jan 29th 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
"Proponents of higher CAFE standards argue that it is the "Footprint" model of CAFE for trucks that encourages production of larger trucks increasing weight disparities and point out that some small cars (Mini Cooper, Toyota Matrix) are four times safer than some SUVs (Chevy Blazer 2dr), arguing that it is the quality of the engineering design that matters most, not the mass of the vehicle."

So there. Solve the problem of piss-poor American engineering skills, and maybe we'll have less crashes. Also, I should note that there's also a correlation between the obesity rate in the United States and the number of car crashes, so maybe it's obesity that's causing more car crashes!

Correlation does not necessarily mean causation.]]>Jan 29th 2008 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
me thinks that it's the hummers/navigators, etc, that are to blame, as they roll over everything or take up more than their share of the lane. including the people who can't drive such large cars but do so anyway. i have a big-a$$ van because of my band, so i know how hard it is to drive a big car/truck/small zip code. and i'm 6'2". it's a learning curve. but there are plenty of soccer moms (and men too, i've seen it) who aren't able to drive those monsters but do so anyway because it's a society thing.

we have a new game on tour - flip off the hummer drivers!

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thank you!!!

people like you give the rest of us (americans) a bad name. we use more than is our share.

and despite having seen phish a few times in concert, i'm no hippy idealist that so many people like to characterize groups who show concern or regard for others. I'm a punk rocker who can kick your ass! so throw that into the soup of your generalizations.]]>Jan 29th 2008 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
*snort

Haha.

Like, as in the alpha testing stage?

And as for the personal comments, please refrain. I'm sure most of the people here on Engadget are not the pothead stoners you perceive them to be.]]>Jan 29th 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
That's great, good for you! Now bag my groceries so I can go home and enjoy my much higher standard of living.

Talkingtowalls:
Have fun touring man, when that inevitably falls apart make sure you update your resume, should help you get a job doing whatever it is grease balls like you do when reality comes knocking. Also, you just assume I'm an American, who's generalizing now? (PS: I'm not.)

To the rest of you, I know I'm obnoxious. In fact, I'd go even farther than that, but that doesn't really matter. You see, people like me get away with it. The same way we get away with wasting while the rest of you little people conserve. Don't you see that whatever you do to 'save' is just more for US to consume?

You know what, nevermind. I just realized how different things must feel sitting at the bottom looking up, versus sitting at the top looking down. My apologies to all of you. Well, I'm off to do whatever I want, to whom ever I want, all the time.

Cheers!]]>Jan 29th 2008 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 30th 2008 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
... The Internets are serious business folks, don't be forgetting that.

Might I just say, though, that people like him are good. They force good people to rise up and take a stand, and spread their wealth of information. I learned in Psychology 101 that correlation does not imply causation, but I had forgotten it until Dr. Awesome waved his miniscule pecker around and made some hidden intelligent soul bare the fruits of his mental labor. And once people like him have done their task, and the rest of us see the good in spreading the good, we will self-perpetuate, and we will no longer have need of people like him.

Take care folks, and don't forget, arguing on the Internet is like.. well, you've all heard it before.]]>Jan 30th 2008 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/how "green" is their disposal?
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We need batteries with unlimited charge cycles. For the environment, and so that my cell can actually go a day without being tethered to the wall.]]>Jan 29th 2008 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
And if it is yourself you're going to hurt when you crash and not some innocent bystander, more careful driving should result...

Some kind of waterproof may be required for those not in sunny regions!

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I believe]]>Jan 29th 2008 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
All the evil corporations are seeing the complete falsehood that is the green movement (this means you Al Gore) as a way to profit off people thinking they are saving the planet (which doesn't need saving anyway).

]]>Jan 29th 2008 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
As for your nonsensical 'the earth doesn't need saving', I can only surmise you haven't paid attention to what we're actually doing to our planet. Even if you don't buy the whole global warming schtick, it's irrefutable that we're definitely poisoning this planet's biosphere with pollutants, whilst consuming raw resources at an enormous rate. In a mere hundred years we've consumed the planet's major reserves of petroleum, we've deforested huge areas, while farmland have become arid or deserts. The majority of humanity is starving and lacking clean drinking water. The remaining drinking water is diminishing, and its quality is reducing. Yearly, we release hundreds of billions of tons of heavy metals and compounds that are toxic and/or carcinogenic or have other effects on humans or other organisms, such as interfering with hormones or the nervous system for example.

I don't think an electric roadster's going to fix all this, advanced airbags or not. We do need to fix our planet though!]]>Jan 29th 2008 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
I forgot to add "Global Warming that is Man Made is a Hoax!"

I agrees that the Earth warms, but it also cools too. And we can't control it. To think we have an effect either way is completely arrogant.

Man Made Global Warming advocates still can't explain why Greenland had very little glacial coverage during and prior to the settlement by the Vikings. They left eventually because the summers were getting less warm over the time span of their settlements.

These advocates still can't explain that prior to the industrial revolution (which is credited to giving the rise to increased carbon in the atmosphere) that the world had much warmer period with tropical plant in Canada and Scotland.
]]>Jan 29th 2008 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/the so called green cars arent any better than cars that run ongas.... where do you think they get the energy to charge the batteries? ummmm.... power plants that burn coal and nuclear power plants. how is this any better than a gas powered car?

but the car is cool as anything and it will be enviromently friendly if all the power stations are powered by wind, solar energy, or the wave powered things (forgot what they are called)

-rant-]]>Jan 29th 2008 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/Jan 29th 2008 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/:-{]]>Jan 29th 2008 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
And it will be at least threee years before they fix the bugs.]]>Jan 29th 2008 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/29/tesla-roadster-gets-air-bag-waiver-for-green-behavior/
Secondly, I think Dr. Awesome must work for one of the big car companies which is afraid of change. But to go directly to name calling and personal attacks is the first sign of a weak hand.

With all the stereo-typing being thrown around here, not one person has really thought it through.

Conservatives have to love the Tesla because its American enterprise at it's finest. A man (much like Henry Ford) had a dream to make a car... and he's doing it.

The Liberals have to love the Tesla as well being that it's Ecco-Friendly.

As a Techie... I love it because it's a new form of technology. Battery cars have been around for quite a while but not one that has the speed and distance of this car.

Lastly, gasoline powered cars is technology that is over 100 years old. I think it's time for the gas powered engine to be shelved at the Smithsonian and let some new ideas come in and take over.

Where would the computer industry be if it weren't for the innovators’ like Hewett and Packard, Wozniak and Jobs, Jay Miner and many, many others.

I'm sure IBM hated seeing all these new companies start up and take the market share away from them. If they had their way, we would still be using Mainframes that take up half a city block.

Hmmm... just like the car and gas companies would love to see us all driving around in their SUV's and paying 90 bucks to fill up the tank at the pump.

It's time for these two industries to change or go the way of the horse and buggy.
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