Putting aside my “I am absolutely terrified for what will happen in the USA over the next 5 years” hat, I’m interested in seeing how the likely economic deregulation pans out over exports.
As a EU citizen, if I have a choice between:
- Unsafe and unregulated EVs from the US
- More trustworthy and regulated EVs from elsewhere
No way in hell would I purchase a USA backed EV. Similarly, if (big if here) countries ever get round to putting carbon taxes on goods, then the “drill baby drill” philosophy winds up putting huge tarriffs on american goods which are now made with extremely high emissions compared to elsewhere.
I guess we’ll see? Last time Trump was president, he started a full on trade war, but surprisingly the noticable impact in the EU was pretty minor, so I guess we’ll see?
likely economic deregulation
Friendly reminder that putting businesses in charge of regulation doesn’t result in deregulation, it results in different regulation - removing what hurts them and adding what helps them (protectionism, barriers to entry to hurt small fry, etc).
That’s such a good/interesting point!
I guess by deregulation, I’m thinking removal of the kind of consumer focused safety regulations that I’d be interested in if I was buying an EV.
Regulatory capture
People are going to die over this.
Some already have.
But other people will make a profit, so it all balances out
nothing to see here, folks. no conflicts of interest, no scamming share prices. no dangers to the public at all. nope. none of that. just business as usual. so move along now.
Regardless of who got elected, NHTSA was never going to do anything about this. Biden had 4 years to do something about Tesla FSD, and just “investigated” endlessly.
The Guardrails are off. I will have nothing to do with Tesla.
Brought to you by the same people who complain about seat belt laws. You know, the laws that were created to protect other people from the whiners becoming human projectiles in a crash.
Half the US won’t buy another Tesla anyway…I won’t.
Will that stop it crashing into you on the road when the other half drives their magggot mobile around?
It’s the republicans scammer vehicle poor build quality made with terrible working conditions.
“Full Self Driving (Supervised)” is not actually full self driving. “Supervised” means that the driver is responsible at all times.
So since there is a driver watching, I’d imagine the bar for getting it licensed would be quite low anyways.
It’s got that “100% Beef™” vibe. Like we’ve decided that the word “full” doesn’t mean anything anymore.
A people who will accept a bait-and-switch like rebranding something that’s not full self-driving as “Full Self-Driving” can be conditioned to accept other forms of bait-and-switch. Case in point: the recent election
It’s obviously not “full self driving” because I don’t have a driving license and cannot use a Tesla to drive me where I need to go. Same for people that can’t drive, like the blind.
If they were truly autonomous cars, people wouldn’t need a driving license to use FSD.
