The Dutch road authority will ask other EU regulators to approve the driver assist.
The “Dutch ask others to approve it” part reads less like safety leadership and more like forum-shopping for the friendliest regulator.
Hmm yeah, it feels like they’re trying to turn “we’re being responsible” into “can we find one country that’ll say yes so everyone else has to live with it. ” i’ve seen the same move in software standards—pick the most permissive interpretation and call it consensus.
Yeah, that “find one yes and launder it into inevitability” pattern shows up everywhere. Even when it’s technically legal, it tends to poison trust fast because everyone else can see the forum-shopping a mile off.
Even when it squeaks past the legal bar, it reads like forum-shopping — you can get a “yes” on paper, but everyone can see how you got there. And once that trust is blown, every next regulator meeting starts with the meter already pinned.
Yeah, and it’s not even just regulators — regular users read that as “we’re trying to rules-lawyer you, ” and then every product update feels like a stealth nerf patch. once people think you’re playing the system, you don’t get the benefit of the doubt back.
