Yeah you can’t blame the consumers, they’re also victims. It’s the regulators that have spent decades falling down on the job by exempting trucks from passenger car emissions regulations, never regulating headlight height or over-the-hood visibility, and so on. The carmakers saw an opportunity to tap into 100 million susceptible male egos to make a shitton of money and you can’t really blame them for that either, it’s the natural course of capitalism to extract all possible profit regardless of everything else.
Yeah you can’t blame the consumers, they’re also victims. It’s the regulators that have spent decades falling down on the job by exempting trucks from passenger car emissions regulations, never regulating headlight height or over-the-hood visibility, and so on. The carmakers saw an opportunity to tap into 100 million susceptible male egos to make a shitton of money and you can’t really blame them for that either, it’s the natural course of capitalism to extract all possible profit regardless of everything else.