The 'kill switch' passes the house.

[JimKIII]

This topic was discussed several years ago when the idea was floated that monitoring and acting upon drunken erratic behavior was to be built into cars manufactured beginning 2026. It was both mocked and reasoned back then and soon forgot about.

Well, the beast raised it's ugly head again and morphed from trial balloon to law.

List of 57 House Republicans Who Voted with Democrats to Let the Government Disable Your Car

Fifty-seven House Republicans joined Democrats in defeating Rep. Thomas Massie's amendment to defund a federal mandate requiring vehicle-disabling technology in all new cars by 2026.

www.ibtimes.co.uk

This is the amendment that was voted down:

"An amendment numbered 1 printed in Part B of House Report 119-462 to prohibit the use of funds made available by this Act to implement section 24220 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, including any requirements enabling or supporting vehicle "kill switch" technology, and to block federal spending for the execution or enforcement of such authorities."

 

[Wanderlust073]

Tired of drunk/stoned drivers. They could embed a sawed off 12 gauge in the steering column for all I care.

 

[Bighoof]

Tired of drunk/stoned drivers. They could embed a sawed off 12 gauge in the steering column for all I care.

So the vehicle sees you as sleepy rightly or wrongly and turns it off. No way to turn it back on and you are in heavy traffic or the middle of no where with no cell service. Yeah, sounds like a great idea. Complete overreach. They already have interlocks available for the DUI clowns.

 

[JimKIII]

So the vehicle sees you as sleepy rightly or wrongly and turns it off. No way to turn it back on and you are in heavy traffic or the middle of no where with no cell service. Yeah, sounds like a great idea. Complete overreach. They already have interlocks available for the DUI clowns.

Or one swerves to miss a pedestrian, or slides on ice, or the injectors start clogging, or a flat tire causes brief erratic behavior, or 1,000 other 'or's. Keep the damn government outa my rig period! If one thinks every car should be monitored and disabled by some software that doesn't give a crap about circumstances, then maybe one should stay home and tend the garden.

 

[Wanderlust073]

You live in a country where people have made cars that can drive coast to coast on their own, rockets can launch and then land back on earth, brain implants allow paralyzed people to manipulate their world by thought, etc. Call me crazy, but given time and money they can probably come up with a solution to this too.

Lose a loved one, maybe your perspective changes.

In a better country, failing a field sobriety test while standing next to the bodies of your victims would result in an immediate trip to the morgue. But here we are.

 

[jerryw1000]

So the vehicle sees you as sleepy rightly or wrongly and turns it off.

Yep, they will eventually "safety" us until cars become unusable. This will be the next exploding air bags with people getting hit stopped in the middle of the road and stranded everywhere.