What's the emission control difference between EU and USA?

Ford Prefect said:
Well yeah. The point is, if you want to build a car that scores "really well" on the european "hey look at us, our cars are the safest in the universe" test, you won?t even pass the basic stuff in the states...
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The "look at us test" is the Euro-NCAP and it is much harder to score well in than the NHTSA testing. However as you say the legislated crash testing in the US is more stringent than the European Type Approval, and that's a political decision. Legislation is fixed and unflexible, only sets a minimum level and has a hard time to keep up with advances in safety. Euro-NCAP can bump up their standards whenever they want to without alot of faffing about in parliament, as can the IIHS.

Chinese car makers are free to sell their cars in Europe, they have, and all it demonstrated was that there are not enough idiots around to make it profitable.

Straying from the subject I know but it's easier to discuss crash tests than it is to try and make sense of the EPA regulations, tier 0, tier 1, tier 2, what the hell is that. Just alot of NTB.
 
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Again: What I?m trying to illustrate is how utterly pointless all these test procedures are, this applies to the mandatory as well as the voluntary ones. But the reality is that you have to set some kinds of boundaries, and no matter how you define them they will never truly reflect real world conditions. But the ones that are currently in place (in Europe at least) leave massive room for improvement. This applies to environmental stuff, safety stuff, and shitload of other stuff.
 
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