true enough but their isnt one consumer with one opinion.
police are constantly taking home made vehicles off the road, powered by electric motors or small motor bike engines, young machinists and whatnot are creative creatures.
on one hand we have all these middle class folks demanding smaller, more efficient city vehicles, on the other hand, they must look pretty and not make the place look 3rd world, so all this hand waved nonsense about danger on stuff that bareley hits 20mph gets plucked out of the back orifice.
what do "they" really think, is it government and industry telling us "they" want all these things banned, is it the usual whining suspects in the community ? would some communities not care about such things ?
if the horse industry had of protected itself like the modern motor industry, we wouldnt have had cars - unlicensed lumps of noisy steel doing 50mph through pedestrians on cobble stone roads, apparently the middle class would be screaming to get them off the road.
In the same vein ,super cheap electric carts that can sneak to work and back are illegal until such time as a large corporate makes one and does all the licensing work... nothing dangerous about these at all.
when it comes to boeing competitors, the engineering problems are a lot higher, and it seems absurd for home hackers to compete.
yet simultaneously we have the rise of sensor feedback flight control boards for all these cheap drones, flight systems that used to be only available on million dollar millitary jets are now $20 shipped from china and the algorithms and techniques are common knowledge.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=home+made+man ... &iax=image
all these fun, new startups are most like to happen in Asia or even Africa, places that allow a new Henry Ford to run amok in public at a risk.
America is probably a lot more likely than any other western country, my country they would be in jail for constantly breaking the law.