[PSUBS-MAILIST] Product liability?

Bill Akins wrote:

"Remember the "Needlefish" submarine for sale a while back?"

This brings to mind a question about product liability. In the homebuilt aviation industry, you are the manufacturer of an aircraft that you built and sold to a third party. Even if that person signs a liability waiver, successive owners and thier survivors are not so bound. You may be liable if the thing comes apart and it can be proven to be a manufacturing defect.

How does this apply to homebuilt boats? I say boats, because in most states your K-350 has to be registered as a boat and therefore...legally, that is what it is.

This may have been covered in years past but, I have not been a party to it and the archives are tedious. It's a bit important to anyone selling.

Joe

From: "Akins" <lakins1@tampabay.rr.com>
Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Flying car
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:00:34 -0500

Hi Mike.

Thanks for sharing those links. If the skycar is susposed to be a viable project, then it makes me suspicious that they are selling the prototype.

It might work just barely good enough to hover, but if it is so wonderful, why are they selling the prototype? I hope this concept is pursued further,

but I have my suspicions about this. It could be a white elephant they want to unload that doesn't work that great or isn't very stable even if it does

hover. Rember the "Needlefish" submarine for sale a while back? Another white elephant that was trying to be pawned off on the unsuspecting.

Bill Akins.

----- Original Message -----

From: Michael Holt

To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org

Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 6:22 AM

Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Flying car

Akins wrote:

> These are the first photos I have seen of it hovering. I wonder how
> stable it is? I notice a tether line attached to it. Thanks for
> sharing them.

This is from a google group:

Neiman Marcus has just unveiled its 2005 Christmas Catalog of Fantasy
Gifts last Tuesday, and one of the items up for purchase is the
prototype M400 Skycar from Moller International (for only $3.5 million
US). If you've ever dreamed of owning a Skycar, this may be your only
chance." From the Skycar site: "Can any automobile give you this
scenario? From your garage to your destination, the M400 Skycar can
cruise comfortably at 350+ MPH and achieve up to 28 miles per gallon. No
traffic, no red lights, no speeding tickets. Just quiet direct
transportation from point A to point B in a fraction of the time. Three
dimensional mobility in place of two dimensional immobility. No matter
how you look at it the automobile is only an interim step on our
evolutionary path to independence from gravity. That's all it will ever be.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/27/news/midcaps/neimanmarcus_christmas/
http://www.moller.com/skycar/ <http://www.moller.com/skycar/>