Well. It's same story just the excuse is safety not ecology.

Again state is making many things in car mandatory. It started with things like ABS, which sounds reasonable, but it is classical road to hell paved with good intentions slippery slope.

Nowadays "for safety" even the cheapest car has to have many mandatory systems and equipment which are not demanded by customer but by state (EU, whatever).

Things like automatic braking, speed warning systems (which needs to read the signs to be able to work) etc.

In reality those systems are often annoying or even dangerous but as a customer you have no saying in that.

And that's secondary reason why many people here are not so hot into buying new cars.