[wallace_f]

Oh come on. Not all heavy-handed regulation would pass a cost-benefit analysis. Nor does it cost 80 million to run some POCs and QA on a project like this.

At nearly 400,000 AUD per vehicle, the question should be what better opportunities to help people did the Australian Govt pass up in order to engage this project?

[alexbeloi]

I think the point was that the costs are justified by the burden of meeting regulatory requirements, not the benefit of the regulation.

[wallace_f]

That is understood. My point was that this kind of spending on a project like this should beg the question, "what better opportunities did govt pass up to engage this project," rather than responding w/ complacency; i.e. 'that's just the cost once you factor in compliance.'

[callmeal]

Once you start taking into account audit and recordkeeping requirements, you will quickly run into that figure.