Today’s cars feature innovations that even the Jetsons could not have imagined—backup cameras, navigation devices, air bags, collision avoidance systems, TVs, and much more. Anything people desire, it’s safe to say, automakers are either providing or figuring out how to provide.
But as Steve Chapman observes, it appears drivers are about to be banished from this asphalt Eden. The Trump administration has begun an investigation to determine whether imported passenger vehicles undermine national security. It argues that when Toyota or Volkswagen sells you a car that was built abroad, it puts Americans at risk.
Wrong. In the first place, writes Chapman, we don’t require a domestic supply of RAV4s to fight the next wars. In the second, we don’t go begging our enemies for shipments of passenger sedans and crossovers. We buy them from our allies, who have a stake in our well-being.
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