> We legally mandate airbags, abs, esr, and a host of other safety features in cars ... you simply don't have the option to turn off ... That's incorrect. New

> We legally mandate airbags, abs, esr, and a host of other safety features in cars ... you simply don't have the option to turn off ... That's incorrect. New cars can't be sold without some of these safety features, but as far as I'm aware, there's no law preventing a buyer from dismantling them. I think that's an important difference--it's one thing to regulate what a large industry can sell, but a completely different thing to regulate someone's activities with their own property.