“The Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission announced Monday morning that the driver was placed on administrative leave and will submit to mandatory drug and alcohol testing as it investigated the incident.”

I’m going straight for the Jugular. Speed Limits...More specifically, the word “Limit” being used in any area that is not a School Zone or Work Zone.

California Engine Legislation.

“Louder than stock” is stupid precisely because it means there’s no standard to judge against and is meaningless. A sports car with a stock exhaust can be louder at idle than some cars at WOT, but a car with an aftermarket exhaust that’s louder than stock but still quieter than the sports car is worth of a $1000 fine?…

Yup. It’s funny how frequently CAFE gets attacked, yet the details of CAFE is what’s created so many brodozers and “crossovers.”

Jaywalking laws.
Invented by the auto industry to make it seem like pedestrians were at fault for inattentive drivers driving too fast for the conditions, they’ve set the tone for essentially making death by car an unpunishable crime.

The one that says that there must be x inches between the top of the engine and the hood (becuase it destroys the lines of a car imo) for pedestrian safety while kill dozer steel bumpers are legal within 500 feet of a public road.

It might not be the worst, but the recent law gone into effect in NY that makes it so if you have an aftermarket exhaust of any kind that’s louder than stock, you can be fined $1000. Just louder than stock. Doesn’t matter that some cars are louder than others and that they all had to meet DOT regulations in regards to…

To me, the worst regulation is the CAFE ‘footprint rule’... that gives more lax MPG standards for large vehicles and are harder on small vehicles.

If I had to pick one and only one it would be CAFE. CAFE destroys market choice like no other regulation does. CAFE and its related regulation is now being used to shove battery electric vehicles down our throats regardless if they work for any particular person’s needs or not.

I’m with you on that. Apply emission standards to all vehicles under, say 10,000 pounds.

Separate fuel consumption and emissions rules and exemptions for light trucks v.s. cars. What’s the point of regulations for cars, if nobody buys them anymore anyway? The trucks people are buying instead should be held to the same standards.

THESE GODDAMN THINGS RIGHT HERE.

Or switch to flashing red arrows, which at least some places are wising up to

A bit local and specific, but how about the crap that states like Maine and Rhode Island are pulling totally screwing over current owners of some JDM cars/vans that were legally imported in to said states?

Rollover standards leading to thicker A and B pillars that don’t include some check for blind spots. Outward visibility in general, actually.

That it was allowed that daylight runners are front only and not rear.

I would argue that the crossover did more to kill hatchbacks and wagons than anything else. For some reason, the people buying vehicles are shouting back and forth that either Trucks or Crossovers are LIFE! and completely forgot about how awesome hatchbacks and wagons can be, and how much better they look than their…

We all know it. CAFE Standards. Not because the concept is bad (more economical and powerful engines are a pluys), but it has never followed through and has basically killed off station wagons, hatchhacks and sedans.

the fact that red turn signals are still allowed and the stupid US standards designed to be different, not better. And of course, the male-ass 25-year rule, but that would be moot if we signed on to the UNECE standards