Sure, why not. Those are features people consider valuable and we'd continue to have them.

Save perhaps rarely if ever used seating positions (middle rear of the super stripped down V6 Mustang they make like 10 of so they can advertise a starting MSRP or some other comparable niche) I don't think seatbelts are going away anywhere they matter.

Ditto with headlights and tail lights, drivers find them useful. Perhaps we'd see a delete option used by fleet buyers who intend to equip the vehicles with alternative lighting.

Agree. Far too much paraphernalia in cars. My garden cart runs fine with 2 wheels why car need 4. It is just inflate cost.

The point of my post was to understand why those sensors exist ubiquitously to point to why removing them isn’t necessarily easy or smart. You seemed to have interpreted it completely wrong.

Let’s use regulation for actual safety issues, and not to increase the barrier of entry for foreign vehicles. It drives up the cost of all vehicles.

If those things are so important to people, they'll happily pay extra for them. Let the market decide! /s

Yes, but without the sarcasm.

But what do we do about externalities, like when the value is for other people? I don’t get much value out of my turn signals, but I assume other drivers do…

Oh, wait. That’s what regulators are for :-)

> Oh, wait. That’s what regulators are for :-)

Do you blindly assume that regulators are right 100% of the time? If they aren't , then by virtue of regulation being never removed in the long run, you will end up with inflated regulation for which some of it is done for no good reason.

This is absolutely true. This is how housing prices have gotten so bad in the United States, through incredibly insane zoning and all the other land use regulation around it.

Is there a particular regulation you would prefer to remove? If you list something specific, let's talk about other alternatives to removing the regulation that could cause better outcomes without reducing supply in that market.

Gotta love a strawman once in a while