I wouldn’t put any of my small grandchildren in the front seat with me now, not because of the fine issue but because of the airbag on the passenger’s side. My car was struck in the rear end while I was sitting at a stop light, my airbag on the driver’s side deployed and I ended up with two broken ribs and a punctured lung and I am a LOT larger than any small child.
But I do rail about government interference in our daily lives on a very, very regular basis to all of my reps and senators, both in Texas and in DC. The last email I sent to Senator Cornyn was about defining who should have access to the information generated by black boxes in cars. He responded thanking me for my concern about the national debt. Neither Washington D.C. nor Austin cares.