I bet that annoys insurers a little.<p>After a collision, the scene forensic agents will often check to see if the brake lights are burned out. If they aren't, it suggests the brakes weren't applied before impact, giving them a potential clue about the state of the driver at the time of impact. (note: it takes several bits of forensic evidence to cement the deal - this is just one artifact of many that when compiled, inform the insurers of what likely went down.)<p>Nowadays LEDs are a lot more common, so that one clue disappeared with their introduction.
I wonder if/when they will stop the various sizes of automotive bulbs(from headlight/tail/dash bulbs from being made/imported/sold? I know retrofits are common, I have my tail/park lights changed already and will probably change headlights when the next one fails - if the car remains?
I wonder if a fat tax will give the image of choice and achieve something similar?
The only people complaining about this are selfish parasitic money-fetishist capitalists who just can't fathom being told they can't waste absolutely everything and ruin life for everyone just for some marginal personal profit. Notice they could only muster one quote of someone complaining about it, from a <i>Republican Senator</i>. Yeah sure it's overreach to ban the most wasteful type of lightbulb, but it's not overreach to ban books?<p>Every action the state takes is overreach, a violation of people's consent, backed by the threat of violence or imprisonment for those who resist. I think if everyone's going to keep allowing the state and the ruling class to exist, they should just shut up when the state does something actually good for once.<p>The fundamental function of a capitalist is to waste for personal profit at everyone else's expense. The capitalist will still have electricity when the grid collapses; they bought generators and solar panels with all the profit their workers produced.<p>There is a downside to this, but nobody's complaining about the real downside. Everyone's complaining about the overreach department doing overreach, but the real problem is that we now have a bigger market for something produced primarily by cheap/slave labor.