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Yeah! Let's get rid of requirements for headlights and seatbelts, and brake lights, too. Why do we need all that? /s
by Schiendelman 1y ago
Yeah! Let's get rid of requirements for headlights and seatbelts, and brake lights, too. Why do we need all that? /s
- dagw 1y agoIf those things are so important to people, they'll happily pay extra for them. Let the market decide! /s
- kbelder 1y agoYes, but without the sarcasm.
- bumby 1y agoBut what do we do about externalities, like when the value is for other people? I don’t get much value out of my turn signals, but I assume other drivers do… Oh, wait. That’s what regulators are for :-)
- ekianjo 1y ago> Oh, wait. That’s what regulators are for :-) Do you blindly assume that regulators are right 100% of the time? If they aren't , then by virtue of regulation being never removed in the long run, you will end up with inflated regulation for which some of it is done for no good reason.
- Schiendelman 1y agoThis is absolutely true. This is how housing prices have gotten so bad in the United States, through incredibly insane zoning and all the other land use regulation around it. Is there a particular regulation you would prefer to remove? If you list something specific, let's talk about other alternatives to removing the regulation that could cause better outcomes without reducing supply in that market.
- LastTrain 1y agoLet’s use regulation for actual safety issues, and not to increase the barrier of entry for foreign vehicles. It drives up the cost of all vehicles.
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- bumby 1y agoThe point of my post was to understand why those sensors exist ubiquitously to point to why removing them isn’t necessarily easy or smart. You seemed to have interpreted it completely wrong.
- geodel 1y agoAgree. Far too much paraphernalia in cars. My garden cart runs fine with 2 wheels why car need 4. It is just inflate cost.
- potato3732842 1y agoSure, why not. Those are features people consider valuable and we'd continue to have them. Save perhaps rarely if ever used seating positions (middle rear of the super stripped down V6 Mustang they make like 10 of so they can advertise a starting MSRP or some other comparable niche) I don't think seatbelts are going away anywhere they matter. Ditto with headlights and tail lights, drivers find them useful. Perhaps we'd see a delete option used by fleet buyers who intend to equip the vehicles with alternative lighting.
- ekianjo 1y agoGotta love a strawman once in a while