* Only numerically labeling a speedometer to 85, but having the graticules to 140, because a law was passed that forbid the numbers to be larger than 85.
Seriously? Just because the numbers are there, or not, doesn't influence a driver to go faster, but the NHTSA in 1979 was certain, we were under the spell of the numbers... not just reacting to the idiotic national 55 mph speed limit
* In North Carolina, repeat DUI offenders, who have their licenses taken away permanently, would simply buy a moped to get around with.
And keep on driving drunk.
In North Carolina, a two-or-three wheeled vehicle “with a step-through architecture” (meaning, not full doors, and not fully enclosed), that also has bicycle-style pedals and could at least sort of be propelled by them, with an engine that is 50cc or smaller in displacement, and is speed-limited to a maximum of 30mph on the straightaway with “no external shifting device” (i.e., no shift lever/pedal/etc, so GY6-style-CVT-only) is classified as a moped, and mopeds are not considered “motor vehicles” for the purposes of state law, so, .... they were legally available to use on anything up to and including a highway with no on-ramps or off-ramps (public roadways/etc and highways that are not “access-controlled highways”) with no license, no title, no registration, and no insurance.
* Smog inspections are not all about the tailpipe emissions, they are checking the computer. So, if you've recently had to change your car battery, like I once did, and then went to get a smog inspection, you are failed because the computer memory isn't full enough.
* the President can no longer drive a car, even after leaving elected office!
* Radar detectors, even if obsolete, will always be illegal in Virginia, where the govt was upset about speeders, and more upset that they could evade police speed traps. Now? They simply use WAZE or some other app to find where the cops are sitting using laser speed detectors
* trucks/suvs are rumored to be excluded from passenger car window tint regulations. That law was made in the 80s, before the majority of vehicles sold and driven, turned out to be trucks and SUVs
* Probably the stupidest, to me, is the requirement that car doors have interior locks... when Vipers didn't have roofs or windows when it was first introduced
Car and Driver pointed out that it was required by federal law to have door locks despite not having outside door handles, roll up windows, or even anything that could reasonably be called a roof.
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