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Because you need the government to decide what is safe for you or not? I've never understood safety standards for consumer goods. If you want to drive around i

by 1stop 12y ago

Because you need the government to decide what is safe for you or not? I've never understood safety standards for consumer goods. If you want to drive around in a horrible death trap of a car... why should the government stop you? (Admittedly I guess you don't want driving time bombs, but the majority of NCAP standards are related to occupancy safety).

hcho 12y ago
Because the governments in Europe pay for health care and social security too. The less wheelchair bound 19 year olds, the better.
richardwhiuk 12y ago
Largely because when you hit somebody, or they hit you, instead of a minor injuries claim, what you'll have is a death on the road. Realistically, you'd have thought the insurance on them ought to be huge due to the huge decrease in safety features.
- scarygliders 12y ago
  Can you cite what safety features aren't present on that Wagon R Limited?
gambiting 12y ago
Because as a EU citizen I want to know for certain that something that is on the market here is not dangerous to drive around. The same as you can trust that the carrots sold at a local supermarket do not contain arsenic - there are regulations against that. But according to your logic, it would be better if there were no regulations, surely a producer of arsenic-containing carrots will naturally go out of market after sufficient number of people die, because no one will buy their carrots anymore,right? I believe that a car with a cabin that folds like origami in a crash should not be allowed to be sold in the EU(or in fact, anywhere).
- 1stop 12y ago
  So I guess you can't buy a knife in europe? (by your own logic).
  - gambiting 12y ago
    You can't buy a knife that would be dangerous to use by being badly made, or which material would contaminate food. So for example,a knife containing phthalates would not be allowed to be sold in stores. This is my logic - I do not want equipment which is unsafe to use to be sold in the EU - a car that has a cabin which folds like origami in a crash[1] should NOT be allowed on the market. Guess what happens to the passengers of this car? I imagine their consistency is somewhere between peanut butter and freshly squeezed orange juice: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRU__x5UAo0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRU__x5UAo0

by 1stop 12y ago

hcho 12y ago

Because the governments in Europe pay for health care and social security too. The less wheelchair bound 19 year olds, the better.

richardwhiuk 12y ago

Largely because when you hit somebody, or they hit you, instead of a minor injuries claim, what you'll have is a death on the road. Realistically, you'd have thought the insurance on them ought to be huge due to the huge decrease in safety features.

scarygliders 12y ago
Can you cite what safety features aren't present on that Wagon R Limited?

gambiting 12y ago

Because as a EU citizen I want to know for certain that something that is on the market here is not dangerous to drive around. The same as you can trust that the carrots sold at a local supermarket do not contain arsenic - there are regulations against that. But according to your logic, it would be better if there were no regulations, surely a producer of arsenic-containing carrots will naturally go out of market after sufficient number of people die, because no one will buy their carrots anymore,right? I believe that a car with a cabin that folds like origami in a crash should not be allowed to be sold in the EU(or in fact, anywhere).

1stop 12y ago
So I guess you can't buy a knife in europe? (by your own logic).
- gambiting 12y ago
  You can't buy a knife that would be dangerous to use by being badly made, or which material would contaminate food. So for example,a knife containing phthalates would not be allowed to be sold in stores. This is my logic - I do not want equipment which is unsafe to use to be sold in the EU - a car that has a cabin which folds like origami in a crash[1] should NOT be allowed on the market. Guess what happens to the passengers of this car? I imagine their consistency is somewhere between peanut butter and freshly squeezed orange juice: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRU__x5UAo0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRU__x5UAo0