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Food for thought for the anti-regulation crowd. Sometimes we need regulations to ensure basic safety standards.
How? As stated, the options are there, and can be bought. They are comparing bottom priced car to bottom priced car in each market, they should have compared to a Mexican car of the same price as the US market car to get a better idea, as the Mexican car is 30% cheaper than the US car.
What is better, the new reliable "zero star" car, or people being to poor picking up a used beater that has tie rods about to give out and an engine that is lucky to start, and crash ratings probably worse than these zero star cars. All regulation does is limit choice, nothing more.
Wrong, because you can get the exact same safe cars in those countries, as long as you *CHOOSE* to pay for it.
They have 0-star cars, but they also have plenty of 5-star cars, they simply have choices we don't.
You are arguing against consumer choice, because given the option, consumers are too stupid to choose to buy basic safety equipment.
Fact is, they aren't stupid, and they know the car isn't as safe, but its all some people can afford. The alternative for many such poor is to not buy that car, and instead to ride to work on a scooter or moped or commute sitting in the bed of an old pickup truck. How did the moped or passengers in the bed of a pickup truck fair in that crash test?
Pretty much this.