Yeah seriously, I got a 2015 truck right before the chip crisis and it was even outdated in 2015 when it was made, really glad for that now. I don't need a fancy console. My friend was out shopping for a van this month and some of them already have the killswitches installed, she passed on those but it's made shopping harder in an already tight market.

I wonder if this the reason for all those 'cash for clunkers' programs too, trying to make the used car market tighter. If you want to get even more into the rabbit hole, could this kill switch implementation be part of what is holding up new car sales? I know a guy that works with chip design and production and he says there is no reason why existing USA factories were not quickly be switched to create the needed chips since that's easy to do and we have a lot of facilities here too, existing factories could be switched to making car chips and less important stuff like toys could be short on chips instead.