Re:Somerset cattle grid mistaken for wall by car sensors
by colechristensen on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:20PM
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A way to do this would be to create a class of forced manufacturer recalls to disable the broken feature which if not completed would block yearly registration renewal, like the emissions checks some places require.
Indeed recently while going through the California smog check and registration process, the dealership told me I had open recalls which might block my registration. They didn’t, but clearly something like that mechanism exists.
This doesn’t unfairly harm people who already own vehicles.
At least in the US we try to grandfather in old tech because the poors have enough problems without the government telling them they can no longer use their junk.
If a box was checked, a standard was met or a capacity was stated when the vehicle shipped the box remains checked more or less in perpetuity. This makes for some great internet arguments when the pearl clutching crowd tries to appeal to the authority of manufacturer statements with regard to older vehicles.