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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?
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).
Tesla is already falling behind their competition. Eventually the problem will solve itself. The problem is that it'll get innocent people killed first. I mean it'll kill Tesla owners too, but if you're stupid enough to trust your Tesla then I can't help you and I only have so much empathy spread too thinly and it is.
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.
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.
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.