Thats not quite right. Sure Cali sets the emissions standards in the US for cars because they are the strictest, but it’s not because cali is big. Manufacturers don’t want to have to build and track multiple versions of vehicles for different states. Thats a huge pain. So they pick the strictest one and go with it because then it works everywhere.
Similarly they added day time running lights for all their North American cars because Canada wanted it. There was no law against it, so they again made one version of the car for the entire NA market and don’t have to care where the car ends up.
In this case, if some other state decides to enact more stringent regulations about age verification, they will meet that one, no matter the size, because it will mean they only have to follow one standard for the whole area. Dealing with a specific state’s laws over another is a pain so if one standard can take care of all of them it saves lots of time and money to just support the most restrictive one.
Thats not quite right. Sure Cali sets the emissions standards in the US for cars because they are the strictest, but it’s not because cali is big. Manufacturers don’t want to have to build and track multiple versions of vehicles for different states. Thats a huge pain. So they pick the strictest one and go with it because then it works everywhere.
Similarly they added day time running lights for all their North American cars because Canada wanted it. There was no law against it, so they again made one version of the car for the entire NA market and don’t have to care where the car ends up.
In this case, if some other state decides to enact more stringent regulations about age verification, they will meet that one, no matter the size, because it will mean they only have to follow one standard for the whole area. Dealing with a specific state’s laws over another is a pain so if one standard can take care of all of them it saves lots of time and money to just support the most restrictive one.