Should your car decide whether you’re able to drive?
That’s not some hypothetical question. In the 2,700-plus pages of the 2021 infrastructure law—a clever misnomer for a trillion-dollar package which added leftist priorities to building bridges—a provision placed a surprising requirement on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The agency was tasked with developing a standard that “requires passenger motor vehicles, manufactured after the effective date of that standard, to be equipped with advanced drunk- and impaired-driving prevention technology,” according to the agency’s website. The traffic safety agency was supposed to either have the rule set within three years (Hi, 2024!) after the bill’s passage or provide an explanation as to why such a standard hadn’t been created.
So, in late December, the agency moved forward, publishing a…
