[torginus]

I distinctly remember that there was an article years ago about this. Automotive bodies have been mandating features for decades, and were doing followup studies.

The introduction of seatbelts, ABS, ESP all came with noticeable drops in accident rates.

However it was noticed, that these new driver assist features didn't reduce the number of accidents accordingly. These systems are not new. We know they don't really help.

Why do this?

[bzzzt]

It's a moat. If you're afraid of losing market share you want your competitors to be busy finding out ways of passing these kind of rules you already figured out how to implement. That's why quality doesn't matter, only compliance does.