Over here, conservatives seize on government inefficiencies/inequities like that as evidence that government doesn't work, period. Of course when they actually use this rhetoric as a means of getting elected, they never actually shrink the size of government, but that's another story.

Also, state and local governments occasionally have similar weird and nonsensical laws on their books, some of which are enforced, some which are not. In most cases, people don't pay attention to state/local politics until it affects them in some major way, and often entrenched political machines at the state and local levels are even stronger than their national counterparts.

I know I would gladly limit myself to one car per household in exchange for a single-payer public healthcare option. Throw in a sensible foreign policy and I'd get rid of my car entirely.