there are lots of preventable faults with vehicles manufacturers won't fix unless the government force them to like in the pictured example. they had to be forced to rustproof cars better.
>>28217745Because most SAFETY AND EMISSIONS standards just gimp the driving experience. SAFETY AND EMISSIONS garbage reached its peak in the 90s and 2000s and anything added after that time period is just tacky useless garbage
sometimes like requiring rustproofing or vinyl dashboards instead of razor-sharp metal ones like in pre-70s cars it's useful. other times it's just unnecessary. and fwiw the industry didn't mind the switch to vinyl dashes in the late 60s since they weighed less and were also cheaper to mfgr.
>>28217745Safety standards brought us airbag recalls and ugly body lines along with thousands of dollars of further repair costs and higher vehicle price tags.Emissions standards ruined sunsets and added thousands of dollars of further repair costs along with less gas mileage and higher new vehicle price tags.Think about it, if you remove the government required standard tire pressure monitor system and back up systems you could drop the price of every car $2000 or more.All you'd have to do is learn to drive and check your tires every now and then like everyone did for the 70 years prior.
>>28217768>>28217745The issue is when's too much? The problem with regulatory bodies is that they have to constantly make new rules or revise existing ones or they're out of business.
>>28217745Yeh GM only bothered commissioning that study when rust warranties started to appear. They could have done it years before but had no real motivation to.
I'm all for it if it makes sense. Once they switched to catalytic converters and unleaded gas the smog around large cities cleared and you can see the skyline every day now (well, most days, looking at you, LA). A lot of the "safety" shit is usually just a band-aid for how huge modern cars are and just adds weight and distracts the driver. It has also led to mass surveillance in the same of "safety." >>28217796>The problem with regulatory bodies is that they have to constantly make new rules or revise existing ones or they're out of business.This is a very important point.
>>28217781>if you remove the government required standard tire pressure monitor system and back up systems you could drop the price of every car $2000 or more.brother you are retarded as fuck. a new mitsubishi mirage is like 15k, you really think 15% of the value of the car comes from a $50 set of sensors and a $200 camera? and furthermore those things didn't magically pop into existence because the government said so. they started being implemented into cars because that's what consumers wanted. they were already common options on cars for years and years before govt mandates. but most importantly, removing regulations won't make them go away. no car maker in the world would start selling a new car, at least in the western world, without those things even if they had the choice. no one would want it. people get accustomed to convenience.
What I meant is the NHTSA began requiring vinyl dashes on USDM cars starting in 1968. The manufacturers had no problem with this because the vinyl dashes weighed less and cost less than the old metal ones. The transition to FWD during the '80s also reduced costs and provided many other useful advantages.
>>28217823Supposing you got rid of all government regulations tomorrow, stuff like airbags and cats would likely still stay due to consumer demand since nobody necessarily wants to go back to 1950s cars with razor sharp metal dashboards that spit leaded exhaust fumes.
most /o/tists forget that 90% of market share is people who only use the car to go to work or whatever, getting rid of safety and emissions standards will only make normies kill themselves and insurance rates to skyrocket but le heckin' driving experience right fellasi would eat this up if >we invested in public transit for people who dont really care about owning a car, so emissions shit could be more flexible and cars would be treated as hobby
Say you got rid of all government regulations tomorrow, big corpo would totally have my best interest at heart and the only reason they don’t now is because government or something.
>>28217871>>28217856>>28217850Is this an AI generated post?
>>28217745>Safety standards,Diminishing returns, consult the chart. The joy of driving and aesthetics have every right to be weighed against human life. I have zero qualms about obvious things like collapsing steering columns and padded dashboards, they barely impact the cost of manufacturing and have obvious safety benefits. A lot of newer safety regs greatly increase cost, weight, and ruin aesthetics for barely any returns. Look at the ban on popup headlights - how many deaths/injuries were caused by people specifically getting impaled by Miatas? Like five? There's also a point where things get counter productive, i.e. "self driving" features encouraging drivers to pay less attention to the road, or rollover standards making new cars have garbage visibility. These are all bandaids for the real source of problems, namely geriatrics and third worlder drivers shitting up the road. >Emissions Same. I don't like smog or lead poisoning, but emissions/CAFE standards become retarded when they impact things like longevity and the ability to wrench your own car. I'd wager that shortened lifespan due to overtaxed turbofucked baby engines results in more pollution overall. EVs are gay, retarded, and worse for the planet even without all the spyware, give me hydrogen combustion or some sort of biogasoline and I'm fine being carbon neutral lmao. >>28217856There's a reason why public transport in the US sucks, you can't say it in polite society, and until said reason is taken care of, which it won't any time soon, unfucking public transit is a non-starter. >Muh insurance ratesI'm in favor of bitchslapping the corpos though. Insurance rates should be forcibly lowered so as to make driving a performance car more feasible. More normies dying in car crashes isn't a bad thing at all. >B-but muh profits Kiss my ass, schlomo. >Muh safetyAgain, kiss my ass, schlomo. >>28217871Who are you even argung with?>>28217911A redditor, so something equally soulless.
>>28217823>those things didn't magically pop into existence because the government said so.They were literally mandated for all vehicles sold in the USA in 2007.
>>28217926>Diminishing returns,really this. at significant cost to the product, manufacturer, and consumer.Its also a back door way of pulling the ladder up behind the big auto makers.Making it nearly impossible for a new car company to be started.
