[BitWielder1]

When the government mandates a solution, it's them poking us in the eye and saying "We Know Better Than You", even when they clearly don't.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Bureaucrats prefer to regulate design rather than performance. Opportunities for graft are better that way.

In the 1960s it was headlights. The European manufacturer Cibie had a FAR superior headlight in every way, but they were illegal under DOT regs because they didn’t use the (markedly inferior) mandated lens design and they weren’t a “sealed beam”. We used them anyway.