Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars?
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because consumer protection and regulation seems to have stopped being a real thing after Reagan. Since then everything good has been legacy agencies patching at the edges where they had authority (all gone now thanks to the Supreme Court).
mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
its just so american to only think in a timeline of presidents :) always gets me
i guess adaptive headlights were also invented by reagan
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My apologies.
Deregulation happened completely randomly in a vacuum like a decaying lump of a radioactive element with no cause.
treesapx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Adaptive headlights only recently became legal in the US.
pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s because a significant amount of the regulatory agency leadership is appointed by the executive and follows their policy priorities?