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Trump & Musk Will Quash NHTSA Investigation Of Tesla Full Self Driving System
(cleantechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2024
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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:
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).
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