It’s called one-size-fits-all. It’s the same reason why we often get multilingual labeling on retail products even though there is no reason to do so in most states. Why make different variants for different regions when it’s cheaper and more efficient to make one version for everyone?

I’d prefer having charging outlets and then having the IFE thrown out to save weight. I know airlines wouldn’t pass down the fuel savings, but they might at least delay the inevitable fare hike a little longer.

Even if California scraps its own standards, there’s still our neighbor to the north - Canada. It’s likely that manufacturers will want to keep up the one-size-fits-all strategy and make all their US cars compliant with Canadian standards anyway.

I’m also curious about how Canada - whose standards are as strict as California’s - will affect automakers’ decisions. A huge chunk of US-made vehicles are exported there tariff-free thanks to NAFTA. Even gas-guzzling behemoths like the F-150 sell pretty well up north despite high fuel taxes.

Some restaurants in immigrant communities are cash-only. It’s easy to suspect that there are tax evading shenanigans at play, but I actually suspect that honest cash-strapped immigrants just want to avoid paying the credit card processing fees since running a restaurant is difficult enough.

My ATM card is locked such that it’s only useful for cash withdrawals and can’t be used to directly pay for anything.

Canada uses the same system. Baffling that the US doesn’t, even in places where you’re required to stick the card into a reader that has a keypad. I later learned that the keypad is for debit purchases.

In Canada, most retail credit card purchases require you to enter a 4-digit PIN, similar to that of a debit card. In a restaurant, that means the server will carry a portable machine out so each customer can key in the code. Obviously this doesn’t help if someone photographed both sides of the card and went on an…

Anyone else notice that this Prius had a rearview camera? Made this mishap even more unexcusable...

He didn’t ask for a trade war. He wanted someone to negotiate with China to drop that duty, because he hates tariffs in general.

I think it’s unfair too, but isn’t it better to hold a civilized negotiation and work towards reducing or eliminating that tariff?

You do realize Chinese steel imports are a drop in the bucket compared to imports of high-quality steel from allies like Canada?

Problem is that many of the targeted products aren’t made locally to begin with. Pushing these tariffs without first giving companies time to establish domestic production infrastructure will only disrupt prices. Factories take years to build - often longer than a presidential term - and companies are not going to…

To be fair, there is a serious oversupply of crude oil that keeps pre-tax gas prices low. Gas is expensive in many nations outside the US because of taxes, not oil prices.

Hopefully by the next generation, TV news will have died out and Sinclair will be consigned to the dustbin of history.

One thing to note - Many cars made in US factories are exported to Canada and other nations whose emissions standards are stricter - at least at California levels if not higher.

The Tacoma and Ridgeline aren’t imports - they’re made in the USA

In many countries, annual car taxes are based on engine displacement (rather outdated way to do it IMO), so consumers there will appreciate having turbocharged low-displacement engines. Since automakers want to do “one size fits all” for the world, that means we get a lot of turbocharged low-displacement 4-cyls in…

Technically BMW’s flagship is the Rolls Royce Phantom :)

“Lack of access to global markets?”