DAVID MARCUS: Why I'll take my clunker over any new car with a government kill switch

Back successful January, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., projected authorities to repeal a Biden-era regularisation that volition necessitate each autoauto manufacturers to enactment termination switches successful their caller cars, arsenic good arsenic bundle to find if a operator is impaired. It failed, with 57 Republicans opposing it.

Today, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is starring a conflict to termination the termination power arsenic portion of the caller FISA legislation, but his effort isn’t looking good, either.

My archetypal absorption to this atrocious quality is to get my beat-up 2011 Mitsubishi Lancer to the shop, due to the fact that I mightiness present person to thrust it for the remainder of my life.

An undated record photograph of unreserved hr postulation successful Manhattan, New York City, New York. (iStock)

Obviously, I person nary plans to thrust impaired successful immoderate way, but the thought of owning a car, connected to the net that the authorities tin conscionable unopen disconnected astatine a whim is an Orwellian measurement excessively acold for me, and I fishy galore Americans.

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Sure, it starts with not letting you commencement your ain car if you look drunk, but soon it volition hap if you miss a payment, oregon neglect to screen your EZ-Pass bill, oregon accidental thing arguable connected a website.

I whitethorn beryllium old-fashioned, but each I privation retired of a car is an motor and wheels. I don’t privation it to speech to me, and I definite arsenic hellhole don’t privation it to perceive to me. It's a car, not my brag oregon my therapist.

I could thrust from West Virginia to Utah without my seatbelt connected successful my Lancer and it wouldn’t dependable similar the dinging and buzzing wrong of a Vegas casino.

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Never does my vehicle, successful a brushed and dulcet voice, with a blinking reddish airy say, "Dave, you’re driving a spot rapidly, aren't you?"

It’s atrocious capable that cars are self-driving today, truthful not lone could the authorities perchance fastener your ignition, it could usage your ain car to instrumentality you to jail, which I accidental is astatine slightest efficient.

Thomas Massie Emoji for Super 6 quiz. (REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon)

The statement from Democrats and the 57 Republicans who privation to power you much is what it astir ever is; an entreaty to safety, a ballpark fig of however galore lives volition beryllium saved that volition beryllium treated arsenic irrefutable, arsenic if we don’t marque beingness and decease tradeoffs everyday.

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To get a operation from the atrocious aged days of COVID, "If it saves conscionable 1 beingness …"

But if that truly is the bottommost line, past wherefore not mandate that each vehicles person governors that max their velocity retired astatine 75 miles an hour? That would prevention an tremendous fig of lives and marque policing postulation vastly easier.

If the contented is drunk driving, past instal breathalyzers needed to commencement the engine. Problem solved.

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The crushed we don’t instrumentality these invasive measures to forestall car deaths is that neither tin beryllium utilized arsenic a cudgel, neither of those options makes our idiosyncratic automobiles much similar authorities controlled nationalist transportation.

What’s next? The authorities rationing by distant power however often you tin thrust your ain car? Where you tin and can’t spell successful it? 

Does that truly dependable truthful far-fetched?

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At the constituent astatine which we tin nary longer simply crook connected our cars and thrust them, without immoderate spell up from the national government, our cars halt being our own. We conscionable rent them from the state.

Sadly, it seems arsenic though that constituent is astir to arrive, arsenic erstwhile again, excessively galore Congressional Republicans rotation implicit similar a cute seal astatine the zoo and ticker our rights get trampled.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, speaks during a quality league connected Capitol Hill connected Oct. 20, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

To marque matters worse, we are present reaping the foul rewards of President Barack Obama’s "Cash for Clunkers" program, which mindlessly took hundreds of thousands of usable utilized cars disconnected of the market.

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Not lone bash the Democrats privation to power your caller car, they privation to destruct the aged cars they can’t control.

I saw the interaction of this myself successful North Carolina aft the ravages of Hurricane Helene, wherever families were going from 2 cars to 1 car due to the fact that determination conscionable wasn’t immoderate banal of inexpensive utilized cars available.

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Having a car is simply a cardinal facet of the American dream, the conquest of distance, the state of travel, but that imagination tin rapidly crook into a nightmare if we manus the keys implicit to the government.

All of this is wherefore my mindset is present that I’m keeping my Lancer until the authorities pries it retired of my cold, dormant driveway. If you are thing similar me, well, past I’ll spot you soon at the mechanic.

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