Elio Motors Inc. (ELIO)

[JohnPainter]

Are you familiar with Elio Motors structural design and materials use? The vehicle me has a full Martinsitic steel roll cage, front and rear crumple zones, three airbags, etc. As a reservation holder following the company for some time I was and remain very impressed with their maximum utilization of existing technology and avoidance of "new technology" hype. I'm a motorcyclist too, though ADV I'm not into street riding other than getting me to off road trails. But the Elio will be significantly safer than any motorcycle, and because of smart engineering safer than most people assume. Take a look at the following now somewhat dated paper from Oak Ridge National Lab (this is the grand daddy of federal labs, on safety factors for light vehicles. There is considerably more written but this is a great place to start http://web.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/v41_3_08/article14.shtml