The mandatory safety features are required because the mandatory fuel economy features mean more aero dynamic cars with worse visibility. We have mandatory fuel economy on cars so dumb big ass trucks can just guzzle gas like there's no tomorrow. We can't have regular sized trucks that get decent fuel economy for some reason that has to do with chickens.

Qhy are cars more expensive?

I mean last I checked they fall under the category of "everything".

To be fair, Automatic Emergency Braking sounds like it has enormous potential for things to go wrong but I say that out of concern for safety, not expense.

I just want cars to stop spying on me, just because I sit in the passenger seat does not mean I give permission to track and sell data about me

Pay them enough bribe money and they will do just that (aka: lobbyist money), no joke. 😕

They just want their goons to be able to break their victims windows out easier