Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gacGuWjqKco&t=579s
You could still argue they are not doing enough, but at least some credit is due.
Let me tell you some stories about illegal stuff.
A few days ago you could smell chemicals in the air every morning. In the middle of the city. There was a big scandal and they said UK exported their shit here. European style. Nothing really came off of it.
Money talks.
Crossing the street in the morning is an exercise of how long can you hold your breath.
I think the average age of a registered vehicle here is around 10 years; it's not uncommon at all to see >20yo cars in local traffic and parking lots.
Taxes are higher depending on emissions, but it's rarely enough to offset the purchase price. For example, if you buy a stinky 90s car that emits 200gCO2/100km, tax would be around 300 eur/year today. A new car that emits 120g/100km is going to be somewhere around 150 eur.
https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/greenhous... [see fig 4 about targets for 2020 and actual changes in emissions for 2017 and 2018]
Personally I prefer used imported cars, as well haha. It's just, if it passes technical inspection and emission tests, why not? An 8 year old VW or Toyota with all the options that's been well kept for 7000 Euros seems better to me than a 16,000 Euro new base model.
For getting around a city, public transport is good enough, though.
Another problem is just the number of cars - many cities have more cars than they can handle. Hopefully more cities will ban diesel cars or all cars in some parts...
Things are changing, slowly.
Europe probably has the strictest car emissions laws (so strict manufacturers have to cheat to comply with it), and many of its country banned single use plastic bags, straws, &c.
The only thing you might get away with is bribing a cop for a speeding ticket in some rural part of an eastern EU country. Anything else will eventually be discovered and you'll be fined accordingly.
I could understand your personal point of view if you live east of Poland though.
However, as I said, with a small bribe you can take out any particle filter here. It's common knowledge.
Besides that, did those VW cars got banned from the streets? No! Does VW pay for my health issues? No! Those money are normal taxes to conduct business in Europe.
It's known for being a bit less strict and a bit more corrupt than the west. At least from what I gathered from my bulgarian, polish and greek friends and from my own experience over there.
Idk where you live but in France we have mandatory vehicle inspections every 2 years and you definitely can't bribe these guys. You'll get fined if you get caught, like everything else. How else would it work, we can't have daily inspections on every single thing that could potentially be made illegal.
I agree with your last point though, but that's the german auto mafia, these guys get away with a lot.
Like the most important industries in most countries of the world, sadly.
About glass, some people say that sicne glass is heavy you will use more fuel to move it around(I have no idea if this is true).
Besides that, most Apple phones since 2016 or so are water resistant.
Does depend on chips being available and some knowledge on how to diagnose the damages (e.g.: board schematics).
Here's an example of new age Macbook pro's dying from little water ingress (design oversight). And a combination of knowledge and a simple chip can fix your nearly write off Macbook. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jahtu1_idVU
For most manufactures the incentives now is to minimize repairability. Increasing the repair cost.
Having some regulation in place to limit repairability prevention may tip the scale a bit towards repairing.
Apple loves to say that their products are so expensive and complicated that manual repairs just aren't worth doing. But observably, in the real world, even with all of the crap Apple puts in front of repair shops to slow them down, that isn't true. Third-party repairpeople still manage to regularly beat Apple's prices.
Apple also threatens you with lawyers if you host or share schematics for repairing products. The new repair partner program from Apple is also a joke and created to appear they are trying to fix the problem.
Any merchant of quality products would suffer greatly if everyone is allowed to sell stuff in its name.
And nobody curses Ford's name when they go to a crappy shop and spend $2 on a new headlight that fails in a week. That's the shop's fault.
Nobody is saying anyone can call their junk an "official apple product". Why would this not be the same as the car scenario? If you don't want to risk issues, don't go to sketchy repair shops.
So what? Apple's interests don't matter, unlike its customers'.
It's always better to avoid throwing something away by repairing it that trying to recycle it.
And it's completely renewable