Another head-scratcher from the article:
Additionally, the author somehow equates implementing car registration and reduced vehicles deaths to gun registration.
“In 1920 you could buy and drive a car without a driver’s license in most states. We figured out the downsides of such a libertarian policy, and regulated cars; the result was a rapid reduction in deaths and morbidity.â€
Except that wasn't true.
Deaths and morbidity actually went UP over the course of the first half of the 20th century. Why? Because cars got faster, and there were more of them. A handful of those old Tin Lizzies puttering down roads that today would never be considered drivable posed a much lower hazard than the countless hot rods driving down the built-for-speed expressways. There's an old film out there called
Last Clear Chance that talks about this phenomenon very clearly. Any decline in per-capita death/morbidity was more due to improvement in the road system than any insurance mandates.