Until then, EU regulation will be just a demonstration that money and power still talks just like in the US, the only difference is that Europeans are better at fooling themselves about their moral superiority.
Anything less than that and all you are getting is an incentive for the make a risk calculation between profit and losses of being caught.
> Also there is a high probability of defeat devices in Citroen, Dacia, Fiat, Ford and Honda cars as well.
Which would be a sign that the regulations are not really working and consumers are just getting fooled into believing that their beloved EU is oh-so-awesome.
We could spend the whole day in this pointless display of "my dad is better than your dad", but can we just skip it please?
Having lived in the US and now living in Germany for over 9 years, I have no intention to leave. But this idea that "regulations" could fix the consumer hostility of Big tech is naive at best and damaging at worst. To assume that the differences between US and Europe are due to lack of regulations is a terrible mistake of reversing cause-and-effect. Cultural differences between and Europe can explain a lot better why things work different, while "regulations" assume that people are just automatons who can do nothing but follow orders established by some higher authority.
Regulation has its costs. Predictable.
> Cultural differences between and Europe can explain a lot better why things work different
Yep, the cultural differences that lead to even a "left" US government to be a lot more hands off than any EU government :)
But that logic applies to anything that any company does. You want to effectively kill any company for any infraction?
That sounds a little too severe.
My memory may be hazy[1], but I don't think Dieselgate was ever proven intentional; your proposed policy wouldn't have kicked into effect anyway.
[1] So feel free to post links to the findings if you have them handy
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
Dieselgate is a case of corruption in Germany, a particularly horrific and embarrassing one sure. But the existence of corruption in a single member state is not sufficient to disregard EU-wide regulatory efforts in a broad swath of consumer-facing industries.
"Strict emission laws" did not stop EU car makers to focus on ICE cars, it worked only to give consumers a false belief that their cars were not as clean as they believed. It's not regulation that is changing the industry, it is Tesla.
GDPR did not (and will not) stop big companies to collect and exploit user data.
"Right to repair" did not get the big manufacturers to stop producing devices that are consumer friendly and don't stop planned obsolescence.
Europeans have this stupid sense of moral superiority, but the people still buy from China, still look at cost above ethics and just use the "but our govt is strong" as an excuse to redeem themselves of personal responsibility.