Coal rolling is the stupidest shit ever in terms of car modifications. You’re spending money to modify a vehicle so it will make less power, pollute more, and have reduced longevity.
There is no upside unless you’re a massive asshole who likes to smoke screen bystanders, at which point you should be charged for assault with a deadly weapon.
Not only should eBay work harder to stop these mods being sold on their platform, people that roll coal should have their licenses suspended. And yes, they ought to be charged if they ever pull a stunt next to other road users.
These are the guys that have fuck Greta stickers. I like my environment clean, fuck me right?
Are there really no emission regulations in the USA? Can anyone turn their car into a rolling has chamber, producing as much toxic exhaust as they want?
There are national emissions standards for manufacturers, and some states have additional, more restrictive measures. California basically sets the national standard by being more restrictive. If a manufacturer meets California’s requirements they will be able to sell everywhere else in the US as well (this is a broad generalization with caveats but this is a Lemmy post not a thesis)
For vehicle owners vehicle registration requirements vary greatly from state to state. Some states include annual emissions checks with random testing as well. Failing these tests means your vehicle cannot be legally driven on the road. Other states only inspect when the vehicle is initially registered, and only check for the minimum items, such as working lights and a clean title (vehicle titles can be declared “salvage” if they are involved in an accident, and the vehicle goes through a more rigorous inspection to have the title cleared).
The US has been in regulatory capture for… probably longer than I’ve been alive. States like California are doing the heavy lifting when it comes to regulation. The national government is so beholden to corporate interests that the only reason there are still national regulatory agencies with enforcement authority at all is because the national government is too dysfunctional to change anything. This is life in a burgeoning oligarchy.
Holy crap. Thank you for the update.
Just remember, the US is more like 50 countries wearing a trench coat than a single functioning country.
Completely against the “rolling coal” idiots, but how is eBay on the hook for what sellers put on their platform if they already remove 99% of it (as claimed) through automation and manual means?
They aren’t the seller, but the marketplace. Its basically section 280. They’ve defended against these kinds of cases before.
Go after the sellers or manufacturers, or put in place a system with fewer loopholes. For instance, in my home state of Maine, emissions aren’t even considered, and even a check engine light and gas cap check, the most basic verification, is only required in one county. Elsewhere, their eight-inch lifted truck with off road light bars, tires sticking out ten inches past the wheel arches and a single eight inch exhaust in the flatbed breeze right through the yearly “inspection.”
Plus, the cops don’t care, and likely do it themselves on their drunk way home to beat the wife.
So with that logic, The Silk Road shouldn’t have been shut down because they weren’t even manufacturing it.
You’re right about that. The market place is not at fault. The people who sold/purchased the goods should be the ones in trouble. I guess it’s easier for them to go after a single entity rather than everyone who broke the law.
In my opinion, if a marketplace allows something to be bought or sold on their platform, then they are inherently supporting and responsible for it.
