this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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You're overthinking this - perfect is the enemy of good and all that. The automobile manufacturer would bear this responsibility. The scale of the problem is very different when the object is the size of a car and has to go through a huge regulatory process in order to be sold in the country in the first place.
Just because it's hard to enforce laws for a small instance in a grey market doesn't mean it's still not useful.
That's what you're not getting. The manufacturer wouldn't bear shit because they can point fingers at a supplier, claim they've replaced the supplier while nothing changes (or the spying moves onto a different component). And if they do get the short end of the stick, the people behind the manufacturer just spin up another company and sell slightly different cars with the same spying crap, without anyone really knowing because to the public it's a brand new company...
Someone might weasel out of ticket/fine/jail whatever so we shouldn't bother?
That is the most shit excuse to not make laws.
I was passed by a pickup in a 100 zone... that guy had to be doing 120 at least. I guess since he wasn't caught we should just cancel all speed limit laws?
Come on... try not to be so pessimistic. It's not about saving every single person, it's about trying to statistically get things better for more people overall.
That's literally the opposite of what I said...
Again I'm not saying we don't need laws, but what we need is true transparency ALONGSIDE those laws from any entity wanting to enter the market. Chinese manufacturers want to sell to European markets? Awesome, they can, if they can provide full transparency of their hardware and software stack. Period.