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Why EU law makers should be careful what they wish for

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In-car safety systems are getting more intrusive, and firms are vilified if they don't fit them - does the public care?

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I wonder if anyone outside of the world of printer sales is sad that we’re buying fewer of them. In its annual ‘How We Shop, Live and Look’ report in October, the department store John Lewis said that its sales of home printers had fallen by 26% during the past year. It even conceded that the printer is “resented… a destroyer of homework, voracious devourer of ink” – and it usually tries to be nice enough about things it sells that you will buy one.

As our correspondent John Evans recently reported, drivers are finding some of the latest safety features annoying, to the apparent surprise of those who helped to mandate them. They’ve come from good intentions – printer accidents don’t kill more than 1500 people in the UK each year – but they don’t work well enough, mostly by pinging too many false positives.

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