Re: hacking your car
+++ John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [2014-02-12 01:36 +0100]:
> On 02/12/2014 01:26 AM, Wookey wrote:
> > Anyone trying to win an argument by suggesting that changing bits of my
> > car is a _bad_ thing has a very cock-eyed view of the world.
>
> Ever heard of the German TUEV?
>
> Driving a car with arbitrary modifications is illegal in most
> countries.
Actually Germany has unusually strict requirements in this area. In
germany you are quite right that I can only build my campervan out of a
whitelist of TUEV-approved parts. In the UK I can build it out of
anything I damn well please (to a first approximation - there are
stricter requirements for the gas piping, for example). The testing
requirement is functionality-based, not on approved parts, which is a
very important distinction. Having built a campervan I am very happy
that I was doing it under the UK system. Apart from anything else it
made it a _lot_ cheaper.
I guess our views are coloured by cultural norms here. I was horrified
when I found out about the strictures German camper-builders have to put
up with. You apparently think they are reasonable.
I would be very surprised to find that 'most' countries follow the
German system, rather than the UK/US system, although there is a
worrying trend in that direction over time.
This is getting somewhat off-topic so to refer back to the context:
I don't object to systemd technically, but I am worried about the
world-view of some of its prominent proponents. By arguing the line you
have taken in this sub-thread I am afraid you are just re-inforcing that
bad impression.
Wookey
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