If they want to play at being 1st World. If not, fine too. I'd think it would only help their car exporting ambitions. Why should US/Canada and the EU and the rest of the real 1st World not adopt
unified standards? The inefficiencies inherent in all the unnecessary redundancies must be enormous.

Ya, but endless goat-rope pissing matches can be fun, too. It's all political maneuvering. It didn't start with cars and it's not ending their either.