One of the classic issues facing innovators is that because their ideas are new, their products aren’t always ‘legal,’ because they don’t fit any of the traditional definitions of a product under existing rules.So the engineers at Terrafugia, the company making the Transition, the ‘flying car,’ must have been happy when they recently found out that the U.S. Department of Transportation had temporarily exempted their vehicle from certain provisions of the federal motor vehicle safety standards.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=109886