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Originally Posted by Big Damo
Since we no longer have our own manufacturing industry, I put forward why do we still need to comply with ADR? We already use Euro emissions standards, so why not Euro/Jap/USA design regulations (with minor modifications - headlights for example).
Then cars would be cheaper again  |
Stupendously good point...
Car safety measures are, in my opinion, the same as medicine. How many times have we seen a long-used and well proven medicine from reliable and trusted countries like the USA or England or Germany held up for years, up toa decade, while Australian authorities dawdle along testing it all over
again before even allowing it onto our market? Humans are humans...if it's approved by a respected and independent authority overseas, then it should automatically be available everywhere.
Same with car safety rankings...if it meets extremely strict regs overseas, then why do we need to have a special set of rules for our tiny country that stop a lot of cars getting here without being hamstrung by ridiculous extra levels of testing?