The EU has squeezed telcoms on roaming charges which created a lot of howling. The EU also has rather strict regulation concerning gas use of cars, ICE emissions and so on, probably second only to California. The EU approach to food and pharma security is fundamentally different to that of the USA, and it impacts EU companies. Regulations around green GMOs are so strict they basically killed the European market for GMOs.
In both cases, Germany had to accept rules they would have never accepted if they were outside of the EU - even if they sadly were able to soften them up.
Like yeah, Germany likes to keep the EU as a consumer of their shit, basically.
France likes to play along 2nd I guess
Last month: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/business/france-bank-raid...
A year ago: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/29/deutsche-ba...
A few years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/17/deutsche-ba...
Panama papers: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/29/deutsche-ba...
This was Germany the government, not the car companies. We're not perfect here in the EU either. But indeed the interests do seem more balanced than in the US in general.
The ability of computers to control the vehicle should be proportional to their perceptive abilities. No output without input.
But even strict limiters without intelligence are commonplace, here in the EU most trucks are fitted with them. Which can be annoying because it causes trucks to overtake each other ridiculously slowly sometimes. It's not something that causes major safety issues though.
Before we can mandate software to observe the limits, we need proper software-readable signage.
Sometimes signs are placed between two roads running in parallel, and apply to the other one. Humans understand that subtlety in sign position, but computer vision doesn't. Signs can also be obscured by trees, etc.
My car's GPS-based speed detection doesn't understand height, so on crossings with bridges/overpasses it picks one at random. When I drive on a highway it can briefly flip to a speed limit of some ramp, and I wouldn't want this to cause phantom breaking.
That we can pass e-bike speed limit in short time without even asking people if they want it while we can't limit cars, which actually cause hundred of thousands of deaths and injuries per year tells you all you need to know about the state of things.
It's either "let's make everyone look at me by making a lot of noise" or "nobody's looking, I'll ignore the speed limit"
Not arguing particulary in favor of AI here. I just happen to hate the perception of private vehicles as extension of one's individual freedom. The restrictions imposed on e.g. pedestrians caused by this thinking tend to be ignored.
Public transit for everyone, cars for goods, services and emergencies, that would be my utopia.
I know this is a fringe position.
The smallest party (FDP) in the coalition went on a solo power trip against their partners. The partners relented because they need the FDP to fall in line with more important stuff.
Also worth noting that the FDP is currently getting voted out of more and more state parliaments because people are not happy with their work.
The thing is most regulation is happening where people actually get hurt. Hey, I am not super pro regulation person, but in comment above, I just tried to disprove something that seemed false. I am not going steelman pro-regulation arguments any more :)