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> SUVs that conveniently skirted emissions regulations which smaller cars were required to fulfill. How would you expect a larger car to adhere to the same emi
by fooker 4y ago
> SUVs that conveniently skirted emissions regulations which smaller cars were required to fulfill.
How would you expect a larger car to adhere to the same emissions regulation as a smaller car?
>Interesting how your definition of dystopian is exactly what marketing/PR has been invented to do, to change the minds of people about what are their "needs".
When the government does it, it's definitely a problem because there is not much mechanism to check this power.
When it's a company doing it to sell a product, it's a problem if there are no competitors. That's sort of why we have fairly stringent anti trust regulation.
- piva00 4y ago> How would you expect a larger car to adhere to the same emissions regulation as a smaller car? I don't, never said that, don't create a strawman. SUVs are classified under small trucks instead of passenger vehicles for emissions regulations in the USA, that's the issue. > When it's a company doing it to sell a product, it's a problem if there are no competitors. That's sort of why we have fairly stringent anti trust regulation. No, it's a problem when a whole industry decides to skirt some inconvenient laws by using marketing tactics to slowly change consumers' perception of their product. That's what automakers in the USA did, sold an idea that SUVs are safer, that they are needed for families and so on because it was more convenient to not have to abide by stricter emissions regulations in their smaller cars. There's competition, and the competition is doing the same because it benefits the whole industry's profits. This form of collusion is impossible to prosecute, USA's laws infamously end up having lots of these holes for loopholes to poke through... How much of that is on purpose or just simple incompetence is left as an exercise to the reader.