Hey, they still let us drive

Frank J. points out that if cars were invented today, the government would not allow them on the road ... or us to drive them.

Imagine if cars hadn’t been around for a century, but instead were just invented today. Is there any way they’d be approved for individual use? It’s an era of bans on incandescent bulbs; if you suggested putting millions of internal-combustion engines out there, you’d get looks like you were Hitler proposing the Final Solution.