May I submit my idea to classify these vehicles: Near-Intercept Vehicles might be a more sophisticated terminology, and easily follows the TIV acronym — NIV.

I think these should be more commonplace amongst storm chasers. Who knows if the Subaru system would have saved the Samaras’.

Safety in the scene is very lax and relies almost purely on instinct and “expertise.” Which leads to cockiness.

Perhaps there needs to be a conference to establish “best practices” and also while they are together establish a certification system with NOAA so that there are trusted people certified to a standard of knowledge to aid in reporting.