The Nanny State

Ezra Klein muses about how to control yet another part of your daily life:

It’s not legal anywhere in America to drive over 100 miles an hour. Hell, it’s not legal to go over 80. But most all cars can do that, and much more. Kent Sepkowitz has an easy fix: Build cars that cannot. Top them out at 75. Prevent 13,000 or so deaths. And it makes sense: We all agree — well, most of us — that there should be speeding limits, so why shouldn’t cars conform to them? In some ways, it would make it easier: You would no longer zone out on a long drive and find you’d pressed up to 85 and the cops were now behind you.

I double dog dare Democrats to run on a platform that includes making the nation’s cars slower a prominent part of the plan. Please, do it! It’s for the good of the country! I can’t control myself when I drive…you need to make the decisions for me, guvmint!