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Carmakers are equipping their latest models with fancy touchscreens, but that could cause problems with Europe’s largest car safety authority.

The European New Car Assessment Programme (NCAP) is revamping its rating system starting Jan. 1, 2026 to mandate that five of a car's primary controls — its horn, windshield wipers, turn signals, hazard warning lights and SOS features — will need physical buttons or switches.

Car models will have to comply to get NCAP's coveted five-star rating. The scheme is voluntary but is heeded by most automakers because it's closely monitored by consumers.

Belgium-based NCAP says that purely digital controls are a potential safety issue.

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[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 78 points 8 months ago

Nice to see EU policy finally flourishing now that they're no longer getting nerfed by the UK's membership.

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 38 points 8 months ago

This is the truth. The EU is much more efficient without the UK.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

What made the UK such a hindrance for the EU?

[-] lightstream@lemmy.ml 54 points 8 months ago

They had a veto and they also had the Tories

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 28 points 8 months ago

Modern England is a blight apon civilization, though half joking aside. As I understand it the UKs conservative bullshit maid it so they functioned like Kentucky here in the US, basically drawing shit out till it died. Which is makes sense when you consider that England without London is about as wealthy as Mississippi.

[-] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Cgp Grey had a good video on the problems with the UK voting system.

[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

People have finally noticed. The Conservative party is on track to get utterly pulverised at this years general election. And if Labour don't have serious ideas about fixing things the same will happen to them at the next one.

I don't even need to vote tactically at this election to keep the Conservatives out. But I will because I want to see them and everything they stand for wiped off the face of British politics. They need to be punished as badly as possible and made an example of for destroying everything that our forebears sacrificed to give us.

[-] aidan@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

Kentucky 💪💪💪

yes I'm a Kentucky nationalist how could you tell?

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social -2 points 8 months ago

Probably because they wanted to be like us in the US.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago

Ineffective and authoritarian, ready to jump into any new war, a populace that votes against their own best interest because of what their leader with a bad haircut tells them, staunch opponents to anything that could be labeled progress?

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I can't answer your question because I don't know. But I take it maybe you mean that as a rhetorical question?

Sounds very bad if true, which I have no doubt it is.

[-] vanderbilt@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

True that. There have been so many wins in just a few years.

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Also trying to regulate encryption... but the UK tried to do that itself too.

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