EU Regulations Turning Cars into Luxury Items: Impact on Young Drivers
373 sats \ 6 comments \ @TomK 7 Jul news
The European Union's extensive regulations, aimed at increasing safety, are turning cars into luxury items, particularly impacting young drivers.
Starting July 7, all new vehicles must include advanced driver assistance systems. The EU claims these systems will save 25,000 lives by 2038, but the increased costs could price out many aspiring young drivers.
Young people’s dream of owning a car is becoming increasingly costly. With the average driving lesson now costing around €50, obtaining a license can exceed €4,000. Once the license is secured, buying a car becomes the next financial hurdle.
Entry-level models like the Dacia Sandero (€11,500) and Fiat Panda (€16,000) will now also require these expensive safety systems. These added costs are more significant for affordable models than for luxury vehicles.
The necessity of such systems, like lane-keeping assistance and speed limiters, is debated. Critics argue these measures are overregulation, limiting the driving freedom and making cars less affordable for young people.
While aiming for safer roads, the EU’s regulations restricts individual mobility and makes car ownership a luxury for the younger generation. Less freedom, more control... welcome to Brussels.
write
preview
this territory is moderated
related posts
46 sats \ 0 replies \ @wingalt 7 Jul
Not to mention the push to EVs to control even further mobility, much easier to control the electrical grid than bottles of gasoline in people's garage. Cars are also the worse spying devices, after making you pay so much for a car auto-makers will collect an endless amount of data and make more money on your back
reply
45 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 7 Jul
Is car driving as big of a thing in the EU as it is in the US? I always imagined that there was a greater percentage of EU residents that didn't need a car in daily life compared to the US, but that is not founded on anything solid. In any case, I'm wondering how impactful something like this actually is in practice.
reply
100 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 7 Jul
the car is as important here as in the united states. without individual mobility there is no connection of the country to the centers. what is happening here is a demobilization of the individual. a catastrophe that is being driven by the Davos policy
reply
45 sats \ 1 reply \ @SatsMate 7 Jul
I would just move to a country with more freedoms if this were to happen. I was in Albania for a while, and they don't make a lot of money a year 40-60K Euros, but many drive with full freedoms and none of this nanny state crap. I know Albania has other problems, but this is just some perspective of another European country managing more freely.
reply
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 7 Jul
Where I stay 3-4 months a year on Crete/Greece they don't give a sh.t on the Brussels parasites. But of course they are victims of the distruction of their economy
reply
45 sats \ 0 replies \ @Akg10s33 7 Jul
From one point of view it is quite true that so much regulation and control is tedious... and in addition to the fact that although we seek safety on the roads we must also take into account that young people are young and thus measures and punishments are imposed for driving improperly. incorrectly... it is an issue that is going to be difficult and well, the costs are also considerable because the purchasing power of the majority of the young population is low and it is going to cost them more to obtain a car...
reply