No Faith in the Moral Standards of the Players as a Group

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

My point was that if you are trying to create incentives to get car makers to build these cars, it makes some sense to give the stickers to the first x such cars from a given manufacturer, rather than the first y such cars. That spurs product choice and development, rather than a huge first-mover advantage.

Living in a place where Prius sales are twice as high on the side of the river where they get an HOV exemption than on the side where they don't, I didn't realize California HOV exemption policy was so nuanced - I take it that any new model meeting certain criteria can get an HOV sticker up to some specified production volume? With the idea being that it gives an implicit subsidy (at the expense of all other drivers) to cover the fixed costs of a new car rollout? China could learn something from such carefully tailored industrial policies . . .