Companies break the law all the time. You'll recall VW got nailed recently for lying about their emissions, and whole industries (AirBnb, Uber, and all derivatives) have been built on flagrantly ignoring the law.

Between the endless examples of corporate crimes and the obvious financial incentives to keep doing them, the presumption should be that every company is breaking the law.

You never know, Musk might have ordered his engineers to "replace the airbags with fart noises 😂🤣" despite every single one of his engineers telling him it's a bad idea.

Because nothing is ever done that ignores or defies regulations.

Because the fines are always so steep and crushing that corporations never continue doing the bad thing while just paying the tiny fines.

If it doesn't, there's an extremely funny scenario where Tesla tries to sell it as an off-road vehicle, which don't have the safety requirements, but can't be issued a plate in thr majority of US states.

They could deploy uselessly from the ceiling or something and still meet the regulation of "being installed"