even a lightswitch on a closed circuit as your throttle would still be fly by wire.

No, we never established that as the case and you won't find a single car sold in america in the last 30 years that doesn't utilize an electronically controlled throttle.

OK cool, I'm not talking about that concept

Has already proven to be effective you mean. Look at the covid lockdowns, the only people who were able to refuse were those on welfare and they could have easily been targetted as well, you overestimate your freedom. we're already effectively slaves.

Or just an attempt at market manipulation. I'm really not seeing much difference in the level of control offered.

I agree with him, gun rights are effectively a security blanket used to pacify the population and nothing more otherwise arms would have been confiscated long ago and by keeping them as a prominent political talking point it keeps the focus off of other important issues such as white genocide and women's mating habits.

Given your perspective this is a pointless discussion

You're really overestimating the difficulty involved. it wouldn't be hard to implement a low power and an unlocked mode, most modern cars already have a limp mode.

Limp mode and valet mode are horrible for your car long term, but no one would think of even driving them short term anyway.

that was still just one hypothetical option to deal with a possible edge case, doesn't really disprove my point about how all the same levels of control can be implemented on ICE vehicles.

It costs more to set multiple tunes for ICE vehicles and you're not guaranteed to make up that cost. That's the point.