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Cars are bigger now because emissions rules are stricter for sedans and other reasonably sized vehicles, it's a yet another cautionary tale about the unintended
by duringmath 3y ago
Cars are bigger now because emissions rules are stricter for sedans and other reasonably sized vehicles, it's a yet another cautionary tale about the unintended consequences of government regulations.
- tlb 3y agoIt was intended by the car companies. As usual, the regulatees understood their business much better than the regulators.
- tgv 3y agoThey bribe them.
- tlb 3y agoThey don't usually have to. They just lobby for something that sounds like it will be good for the public, but is actually good for them in the long run. They can bamboozle well-intentioned regulators because they understand their customers, their operation, and the future of the market much better than the regulators.
- draw_down 3y ago[dead]
- jeroenhd 3y ago> unintended consequences of government regulations Sounds more like a(n intentional) lack of government regulations to me