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Rob Croson

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NHTSA's claim for the changing criteria is that more and more systems are becoming standard. This causes more and more vehicles to cluster in the top "5 star" rating. What's the use of having a rating system if everyone gets the highest score?

To keep the ratings differentiated and meaningful, they are adding additional criteria and system requirements to hit that top score. In order to get the top 5-star rating you have to be good not only at protecting the occupants from injury, but in preventing the accident from happening in the first place. And yes, that includes pedestrian detection, forward and reverse autobraking, etc.

"For their vehicles to achieve high 5-Star Safety Ratings, manufacturers will need to account for more types of crashes, more kinds of potential injuries to vehicle occupants as well as pedestrians, and technological approaches to avoiding or mitigating crashes in the first place. The result will be new incentives for vehicle manufacturers to produce safer vehicles," NHTSA said in a statement.​
 
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It all boils down to what will it be called. (By the FEDS) A "car", an autocyle, or a motorcycle.
Different crash requirements for different types of vehicles.
IIRR Paul said from the beginning the crash tests will be done to meet the "car" specifications.
 
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Rob Croson said:
NHTSA's claim for the changing criteria is that more and more systems are becoming standard. This causes more and more vehicles to cluster in the top "5 star" rating. What's the use of having a rating system if everyone gets the highest score?

To keep the ratings differentiated and meaningful, they are adding additional criteria and system requirements to hit that top score. In order to get the top 5-star rating you have to be good not only at protecting the occupants from injury, but in preventing the accident from happening in the first place. And yes, that includes pedestrian detection, forward and reverse autobraking, etc.

"For their vehicles to achieve high 5-Star Safety Ratings, manufacturers will need to account for more types of crashes, more kinds of potential injuries to vehicle occupants as well as pedestrians, and technological approaches to avoiding or mitigating crashes in the first place. The result will be new incentives for vehicle manufacturers to produce safer vehicles," NHTSA said in a statement.​
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Hmmm!
So your $90K - $120K car has auto pilot that was a $10K option!
Duhh!
That's more than the entire Elio.
That's why Travon, Jose, and Dave can't afford cars to drive to work.
 
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RSchneider said:
1. Every manufacturer knows what the EPA test procedure is and they do it before the EPA ever sees the car. Elio could do this with what they have at the moment and know if they are close or not.
2. Every manufacturer knows what the current crash test procedure is. Thus, they do it themselves before NHTSA ever sees the car. I'd think that Elio would have done this by now.
3. Plant prep does show progress and will shut up the local media and politicians in Shreveport.
4. You can't build an engine and that's it. Manufacturers know that they have to do testing for durability and things like emissions (right now it's 150K for emissions testing). Companies like Roush have a facility dedicated to durability testing in Detroit. They have engines from various manufacturers on automated dynos. They produce so much heat, that they use it to heat a few of their buildings. Who here wouldn't want to hear of a durability test. If you are using your Elio as a daily driver and keeping it for 10 years, you sure don't want the engine to give up the ghost 50K into your ownership. Even existing manufacturers get it wrong with engines. Expecting Elio to get it right is unrealistic.
5. Since the show rooms will be at strip malls, wouldn't it be nice to have some sort of announcement of where these will be? It shows progress and buyers beyond the 65K can go look at, touch and maybe drive one, that would be a benefit.

Then, you pretty missed the point of my post. You need milestones reached, progress shown, deadlines met. This is how the real world operates. I was giving realistic milestones that Elio could let people know about. They advertise some of these specifications and having a press release to show that you met it, goes a long way and then it puts all of the naysayers asleep for a while. If not, don't expect to see the stock take off and speculative news to persist.
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Please, send all of your ideas to Paul Elio.
 
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WilliamH said:
All optional at an extra cost.
Not really sure I want a computer to decide when to hit the brakes.
To err is human .... To really screw things up requires a computer !!!
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Sure, but the options are a fair bit cheaper than $10k, and the vehicles a fair bit cheaper than $60k. More and more vehicles are going to get this technology, and so far I haven't heard of many instances where the systems have caused an issue. Quite a few have saved people from accidents, however.

But more to the point, I was just trying to explain that these systems aren't overly expensive.
 
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