Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Properly" means that the automakers should pay a fine per vehicle sold that was producing more emissions than allowed, and that fine should be so high as to effectively get them into bankruptcy. It should also put in jail anyone that was aware of the violation and did not report to the authorities. Everyone , from the CEO to the test engineer who knew about the cheating devices. Anything less than that and all you a…
Meanwhile, in the EU the price displayed/set in the contract is the price you pay.
We could spend the whole day in this pointless display of "my dad is better than your dad", but can we just skip it please?
Having lived in the US and now living in Germany for over 9 years, I have no intention to leave. But this idea that "regulations" could fix the consumer hostility of Big tech is naive at best and damaging at worst. To assume that the differences between US and Europe are due to lack of regulations is a terrible mistake of reversing cause-and-effect. Cultural differences between and Europe can explain a lot better why things work different, while "regulations" assume that people are just automatons who can do nothing but follow orders established by some higher authority.