You can't prove a model was distilled just from its outputs, so a trade-law ban wouldn't stop the practice. It'd mostly give incumbents a way to tie up any competitor whose model gets suspiciously good.
Your mileage may vary (lol) on whether they are fuel efficient, but Detroit's crossover models are very much cars, even if they have tall bodies and butch styling. If it has a unibody and an engine turned sideways driving the front wheels, it is not a truck.
You can't prove a model was distilled just from its outputs, so a trade-law ban wouldn't stop the practice. It'd mostly give incumbents a way to tie up any competitor whose model gets suspiciously good.
Regulator Capture is the key phrase.
Your mileage may vary (lol) on whether they are fuel efficient, but Detroit's crossover models are very much cars, even if they have tall bodies and butch styling. If it has a unibody and an engine turned sideways driving the front wheels, it is not a truck.
Literally the mileage varies. :)