One rule halted was the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Department of Transportation's plan to mandate all new cars, vans, and SUVs install technology that would share their speed and brake status information with nearby vehicles.
For what purpose? To save drivers the effort of paying attention to traffic around them? Is introducing expensive technology to make people more inattentive and stupid really a good thing? I've seen ads for cars that automatically sense traffic situations ahead and suddenly brake; couldn't such unexpected braking cause injury to people who weren't expecting the car to suddenly stop? And what about situations where braking is not the best course, but swerving is? Would the brakes suddenly activate just as the driver is starting to swerve, potentially causing an accident?
A $5.7 billion rule stemming from Obamacare that includes addressing "discriminatory behavior by healthcare providers that may create real or perceived barriers to care" in rural hospitals is also likely subject to the freeze.
And that means what, exactly? It sounds like a scheme to require hospital employees to spend even more time on various "diversity" and other feelings-based training, which cuts down on their productivity. I doubt that the number of jobs created in the feelings-based training industry comes even close to the loss in productivity caused by the training. This regulation does not deserve to see the light of day.
"It’s unlikely the regulatory freeze lasts for longer than a few months, but it’s a certainty that the administration will scrutinize all pending major rules and determine those that adequately protect public health and safety and those that could harm economic growth," Batkins added.
That's a good first step. Ideally, every regulation on the books should be reviewed. In the days leading up to the inauguration, President Trump said that he would require two regulations be revoked for every new regulation--that may have been the most important item on his agenda. I'm certainly looking forward to it.
Trump needs to get ex-Sen George McGovern (onetime prez candidate) to comment on this.
BACKSTORY-—McG decided to buy a hotel in retirement to have a reliable income....but had to declare bankruptcy.
His hotel simply could not keep up w/ the regulations HE passed.....and still remain solvent.
McG said, at the time it seemed like a good idea for the Senate to regulate this and that.....but that he had no idea the burdens this placed on small businesses like his.
Yes, the most important thing is to keep the rule writers employed, and their agency empires funded. Note that many of these new rules are accompanied by dire predictions of death and disaster if the rules are not enacted, all meant to sway Congress in their direction at budget time.
“For what purpose? To save drivers the effort of paying attention to traffic around them?”
Most likely to make the use of autonomous vehicles easier and more efficient.
I expect it will happen though the market. The advantages of autonomous vehicles, the savings in accidents and time, will be enormous.