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Remember on the older The Price Is Right game shows with Bob Barker, when the announcer would describe to the contestant they could win “a brand-new car!” and then proceed to describe the car? Part of the description was always that the car had “and California emissions.” Why was that? What was so special about California? Turns out the state of California had different, more restrictive, pollution rules from the rest of the country; and if you wanted to sell cars in California you had to meet the California standards. It was difficult for car manufacturers to produce cars separate just for California, so eventually the country normalized on one standard, which looked a lot like the original California emissions standard.