Sparrow
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I wear a bicycle helmet when driving my Sparrow for exactly the reason that ecarfan stated. I think it is necessary in the Sparrow because I was bumping my head on the hard fiberglass side of the car when taking corners.
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I am very skeptical of the Lit Motors C-1 at this point. If it rises from the ashes I will be happy but at this point I regard its chance for success very low. This means that I view the other claims skeptically too. Standard Drivers licenses and airbags are part of that concern. I think there is a real market for a thin commuter vehicle that can handle highway speeds and do inter-city transportation (i.e 200 miles range). Especially if that thin vehicle can use HOV lanes because it is highly occupied by one driver not because it gets a special exemption like EVs in CA. I am a big fan of two wheel vehicles and love riding/driving them. The Litmotors C-1 was a dream vehicle for me. Unfortunately the missed dates and lack of communication has soured that dream. I got my deposit back.
I was not aware of that BMW model. Do you mean this? BMW previews its vision of a safer city scooter with C1-E conceptI probably would wear a helmet in the BMW C-1 too, but not in the Lit Motors C-1.
"We are working to make sure only a standard driver's licence will be needed" . That is good to know but it basically means nothing. It is not up to LitMotors to decide what will eventually be required to drive the vehicle. It was similar with the BMW C-1 scooter, only in Germany were people allowed to drive it without a helmet. It would have been much more successful if people had been allowed to drive it without helmet in other countries too.
If I owned a C-1, I would always wear a helmet, regardless of what the law required, given how close my head would be to both sides of the vehicle.
Exactly. As long as Tesla keeps innovating and pushing their production capabilities they should not take on outside projects, especially something that will be low volume yet require completely different production lines. Tesla will not have any excess capacity to spare for many many years, by which time Lit will have either already made it or failed and disappeared.Now Tesla already doing a lot (SEMI, Roadster, solar Roof & panels Model Y are still in the intro stages) [not to mention SpaceX/Boring] so now certainly not the time to add another project.
Another 3 wheeled weirdmobile destined for failure like all the rest. As was said in the C1 video 3 wheels are never popular.another startup
Long ago we asked Martin why not a 3 wheeled Tesla since it avoids a lot of safety requirements.
The response was basically "no way"... They want safe vehicles, not to avoid safety regs.
I think they weren't so keen on the "weirdmobile" aspect either.