[c0pium]

Fatalities and collisions are both down significantly in places with those kinds of laws, and there are some interesting natural experiments created by exceptions which strongly indicate those links are causal.

Just because a law has a side effect you don’t like doesn’t mean the Illuminati are out to get you.

[_zamorano_]

For many people is either I buy something I can afford, or I don't buy anything.

What is safest. Regulating new cars to expensive safety standards, and make them unaffordable for the masses or being more conservative about such standards and allow affordable cars to exist?

European govermentes have chosen the first option. In the meantime, the car average age keep increasing. Much safer, indeed.

The end goal is to have much less cars on the road, not conspiracy, but an actual statement. And of course, the cars to get rid of are not those of the wealthy.