I know this is in the EU and I’m in the US but unfortunately to keep people honest you need to be able to record them in public. It’s a double edged sword yeah people will do perverted thing but there is no perfect solution.

Why stop at elected officials any company has to do this. If they can infringe our rights why not make sure everyone has their rights taken away.

Honestly we aren’t that far off from that. We don’t have many 15 year old EVs but you can get a 8 year old used EV for 8K. I think you got incredibly lucky to get a 15 year old car that doesn’t need it’s transmission or engine or some other significant part replaced. Like others said you doing it yourself is what made your repairs much cheaper and to be honest you would be able to do the same thing on EVs for everything other than the battery and motors but depending on the brand you could fix broken batteries as well.

There are cult followers that have had cult leaders predict the rapture on multiple events and their followers still think it’s gonna happen one of these times. Sometimes it’s easier to believe insanity than they could be wrong.