Time to make a billion dollars on something else, then start up a car company designed to fail. No investors, design a car for a 60-70k buying price, few bells and whistles, but built to last indefinitely with basic maintenance. Start the company planning to practically close it down just after the last preorder customer has their car delivered and become a maintenance company with a few employees to make replacement parts and install them. If demand rises, redesign for the new times, ramp up and do it all again.
I’m out here trying to save enough money to get by, it’s annoying to keep seeing all the things I can’t afford paraded in front of me constantly. Some of them I wish I could afford, some of them I’d never buy if I had the chance.
It strikes me as companies with too much access and too much money looking to drain my accounts to add it like a drop of water to their swimming pool they already have.
I was hoping they’d start adding a sort of rounded plastic shell to make it more aerodynamic and cover over the sharp edges, but if customers still like them after an injury there’s no incentive to dull the edges.
If enough non-customers are killed, they may have to do something, but idk what.
If you’re relying on the breezes to let air in, then a furnace filter that is the same size or a little bigger than the opening of the window should work. You’ll get a little less air, but a HEPA filter will let only clean air in if it’s wedged into the window opening or taped to the outside.
If you’re doing a box fan with furnace filters, do at least 3 filters and some cardboard to make a cube, put the cube outside and the fan in the window opening, and block any gaps around the fan.
A matching pair of show cars, custom built from the ground up to cruise in and turn heads.
Also, build the modern equivalent of the Model T, the Volkswagen Beetle, something like that. The super practical, oddly attractive, easily repairable, energy sipping cheap-mobile. It would be hard to meet all these goals plus modern safety requirements, but that’s where the endless money comes in for R&D.