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World's Oldest Running Car Up For Sale
cylonlover writes "A very special car will cross the auctioneers block next month — it's the world's oldest running motor car, a historic 1884 de Dion Bouton et Trepardoux Dos-a-Dos Steam Runabout. The second prototype built by Count de Dion, the car participated in the world's first automobile race, which only attracted one competitor. It completed the course, and although it's arguably not possible to have a race without two competitors, this is the car that 'won' that race, achieving a claimed top speed of 37 mph on the straights."
You are a jerk. Stop behaving like the mere idea of regulation is inappropriate.
Regulations make our world better. Virtually all of them are good. Some of them are idiotic or generate more nuisance than benefit. If you are willing to engage with the government and view our social contract as a two way street, you, yes you, can influence laws and encourage better regulations to be written.
As other people have noted, government safety, environmental and fuel consumption regulations are for mass produced street legal vehicles. Exemptions exist for people who want to produce prototype cars or vehicles that don't meet these regulations. In most cases you simply have to pay an extra fee to make sure you are being responsible for your vehicle.
Really, do you know what you accomplish with your hatred of government? You are destroying the social contract of our society. The reason our country is great is because people work together to improve our lives. I'm really scared that people like you are somehow winning the argument, and that eventually you will infect everyone with the idea that other people are "opponents" rather than citizens to be treated equally. Every time you express disdain for the government, we get one step closer to being a wild-west, free for all Somalia-type country where anything goes provided you have a gun in your pocket to back it up.
Do you know who won in the wild west? The lawmen won. They had guns just like the bad guys; but when they came into a town with no law and no government they improved it. Your ancestors would be sick to hear that you are so upset over taxes and regulation that you're willing to throw away all civilization to be free of them.