Toddsterpatriot
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Toddsterpatriot, I’m an old man and no longer crawl under cars. There were many cars built to comply with the more stringent California emissions regulations, but living on the East coast and not being a professional mechanic, I’m not surprised that I was never aware if I encountered one of those California vehicles.Why do you feel California regulations induce an improvement?… Thus in the USA, California’s higher standards for some products effectively became the national standard. That’s an example of California’s government’s regulations inducing an improvement of goods and service products. ...
Be as specific as you can.
I do logically speculate that if an emission component was required to be redesigned for California compliance, it would often be found less expensive to manufacture a single design for all the engines, rather than manufacturing and stocking two different designs of the same part. Because of this, vehicle manufactures would have been, (for their own benefit) induced to somewhat upgrade all their vehicles to more closely approach the California emissions standards.
I similarly speculate that if any state has more stringent standards for any product, manufactures will determine if it was more to their advantage to: (A) manufacture and stock two similar models of product. (B) Not compete within the state requiring the model more expensive to produce. (c) Produce a single model because particularly in mass production assembly lines, the economies of increased numbers produced and sold justify a comparatively small additional manufacturing cost per unit.
For many products, I speculate that the choice would be (C). Respectfully, Supposn
Yes, it does make more sense to build one model rather than a different one for every state.
But why is a model based on the California standard an improvement over one based on the national standard?