In Germany by law every car needs to inspected every two years by the TÜV. Cars are highly regulated in terms of what modifications you may perform on them and anything even slightly significant requires approval.
If you want to sell a car at decent value or you're leasing it, you're practically required to also perform the inspections offered by manufacturers.
When well-maintained and regularly serviced is the norm, it's inevitably going to influence your design.
That's part of it, but it doesn't quite explain the front suspension on a BMW bike. No one else makes a suspension so complicated, however, no one else has a bike that doesn't dive under braking. The engineers knew it was possible and pulled out every stop to deliver it.
It's a cultural thing, when we see a problem it must be fixed no matter how much complexity.
It's like when I'm making an app and there's a 5 fps drop when the a new table view cell is rendered, everyone I show can barely notice it, but I see it, and it bothers me until it's fixed. 60 FPS or GTFO.
> In Germany by law every car needs to inspected every two years by the TÜV. Cars are highly regulated in terms of what modifications you may perform on them and anything even slightly significant requires approval.
Is this a German thing or an EU thing?
Because in Spain you have to pass the ITV every to years until the car has 10 years and then, every year.
And almost any modification has to pass that inspection
The German regulation has existed for a long time, I doubt that's due to the EU. However you want to be able to sell and drive a everywhere in the EU. It only makes sense to deal with this on a EU level to harmonize existing regulation and force members lacking such regulations to implement it. If that hasn't happened already (which I find hard to believe), it will.
Every(?) European country has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection of some kind. Turkey adopted the German system last year. I wouldn't be surprised if the EU standardises the regulations at some point in the future.
If you want to sell a car at decent value or you're leasing it, you're practically required to also perform the inspections offered by manufacturers.
When well-maintained and regularly serviced is the norm, it's inevitably going to influence your design.