Comment by hollow-moe
17 hours ago
Can't do that in Fr*nce and likely other European countries, all vehicles must have eCall and your vechicle might not pass the mandatory routine check you need to do once in a while to be allowed on the road. Hope you like biking a lot.
TIL:
> eCall was made mandatory in all new cars approved for manufacture within the European Union as of April 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall
It's one thing for something to be mandatory original equipment, it's another for them to be necessary for passing an inspection (MOT / roadworthiness certificates). It's not mandatory in many countries, AFAIK.
There's going to be a lot of value in keeping cars from 5-10+ years ago around indefinitely.
Until they're outlawed for the poor because "they pollute way too much"
> Fr*nce
What's this?
France.
Why not write France? I doubt HN has any censoring going on.
Just use public transit.. oh, wait, (https://reclaimthenet.org/the-eurail-breach-and-the-digital-...)