Quote Originally Posted by 33fromSD View Post
Great job on the first drive. Really REALLY cool!!

One question, and I'm not sure how anal inspection is by you but my wife's 2022 Mach-e, Ford had to include a pedestrian warning system, basically just piping a humming/growling sound through a pair of external speakers so blind or low-sight pedestrians know there is a vehicle by or around them.

Tesla I heard will implement something like this in an HW/SW update later this year for cars coming off the assembly line as well as cars in the field. Do you need to do anything similar for your state to pass inspection?

Jim
I thought that was a federal requirement already. Maybe it's just a CA thing. Not certain.. My 2021 F150 hybrid had that but it was a terrible implementation - horribly annoying sound so I disabled it. I don't drive without paying attention to my surroundings so the math was easy. 100% annoying vs. 0.01% chance of causing an accident without it.

As for this car, it's not required as far as I know. CA has a process called SB100 that allows for 500 kit/custom cars per year to be registered and exempt from a lot of requirements like emissions. Needs the basics like seat belts, lights, signals, etc. though. I'll find out when I go to register it but in all my research for this car I haven't heard of that being needed.