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Lol they do but there not cheep and another thing is sometimes it might be shallow which wouldn’t help or off a cliff into a river wouldn’t help cause of the impact so that’s why that features just for fun.

The DOT has certain criteria to meet for all car manufacturers. Because of the light weight material will not stand up to crash test.

I don’t know that they can create such a thing,or that they’d want to. The wieght of the vehicle itself would make such a device hard to make as far as I know. But the real reaosn is, if that device ever failed in a real world situation, they would get sued. They can’t get sued for not having it on the vehicle…which is sadly the terms they think in.

They already have cars that can turn into boats–they have been out in the market for years.
I think the cost of them is far too prohibitive for most people to purchase them.
Good luck and may God bless you.

You don’t know much about the cost to make a car float upright do you?

there has rarely been a car that has sold on safety. Look how manufacturers had to be made to put seat belts in and all the other safety.

In the end it is money – people will pay for alloy wheels, leather upholstery and the like but never safety. An illustration of this is the Volvo 240. It was in its day the safest, easiest drive most reliable car on the road – but much ridiculed for those very features. Look at the car adds now – how many mention safety at all

The message is – most cannot give a dam about safety

Well the likeliness of an accident happening involving a vehicle and water rarely will ever happen. Automakers wouldnt think that feature would hold up to consumers, thus it would raise the the price of the vehicle, something a consumer wouldnt want to happen. Todays safety features involve seat belts, airbags, and the way a car crushes when an accident happens. Extra features just of that are too far fetched and are costly. Although cars with all windows up are tightly sealed for a certain amount of time before water starts to emerge..

there actually is a car that can float on water. go to youtube and type water auto.

First of all, cars do float and there are perfectly good procedures for sober people to get out of a car that has gone in the water.
If they floated a lot in a river, they would be floating down stream.
Cars going into water are uncommon and often those going in would not be in the water with a little common sense (like not driving into low water crossings.)
About the only way to guarantee that a car would float would be to install rather bulky (tough) air bags above the front and rear bumpers where they would certainly interfere with styling and probably with access to the trunk and air flow to the engine.
If one went off and the other did not, or one tore, the car would end up hanging nose down (or up) in the water and maker would be sued for injuries or deaths.
You could certainly get in the business of selling after market kits, if you think there is such a demand. The kit would use existing technology because life rafts inflate automatically when they hit water, so you could make a tubular kit and figure out how to bolt it in place in two locations on car (or maybe to roof as long as it did not disturb the parachute already installed for people who fear driving off a cliff.)

Automakers make what people ask for AND what sells.

Once upon a time there were several brand names that floated, but now there is only one … the VW.

Once upon a time there were several brands where getting water into the engine did not cause it to stall.

These brands worked wonderfully as advertised, but very few people bought them. When an auto manufacturer makes some feature, it costs them $ . When no one buys into that feature, the auto maker loses big bucks.

Same thing other products.

There used to be home PCs that did not get malware, hackers, spyware, viruses, you name it, because they were built with operating system (other than Windows) and hardware (other than Intel) that was hightly resistant to this nonsense, but they could not compete … the mass public wants
(a) buy the cheapest stuff
(b) looks cool, goes fast
(c) could care less about safety security quality, or the notion that the stuff was made by slave labor in a non-free nation
(d) lots of things to go wrong so we can have fun complaining … life would be so dull if there was nothing to complain about

Given the choice of buying cheap, then paying thru the nose over the life of the product, many times the purchase price

and

buying a little better quality, with almost nothing to pay for maintenance, so that the total lifetime expense is maybe half of what the buy cheap has

the mass public buys cheap and damn the consequences