Buried deep within the massive infrastructure legislation recently signed by President Joe Biden is a little-noticed “safety” measure that will take effect in five years. Marketed to Congress as a benign tool to help prevent drunk driving, the measure will mandate that automobile manufacturers build into every car what amounts to a “vehicle kill switch.”...
The lack of ultimate control over one’s vehicle presents numerous and extremely serious safety issues; issues that should have been obvious to Members of Congress before they voted on the measure...
Adding what amounts to a mandatory, backdoor government “kill switch” to cars is not only a violation of our constitutional rights, but an affront to what is — or used to be — an essential element of our national character. Unless this regulatory mandate is not quickly removed or defanged by way of an appropriations rider preventing its implementation, the freedom of the open road that individual car ownership brought to the American Dream, will be but another vague memory of an era no longer to be enjoyed by future generations.
Originally Posted by NinerDoug:
Should law enforcement be able to force you to pull over by turning on their emergency lights?
What if you refuse to pull over? Should they be able to physically force you to stop?
What is the difference between a physical maneuver or a spike strip and a kill switch, other than it would appear to be a safer option?
Wow. I always thought that NJ was the dumbest person on this forum. But this post makes a serious running at number one. Hard for me to believe that there are people this stupid. All the stuff that I have always considered common sense Americanism simply doesn't exist in so many people. The Communists have truly won in America. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Taco John:
Wow. I always thought that NJ was the dumbest person on this forum. But this post makes a serious running at number one. Hard for me to believe that there are people this stupid. All the stuff that I have always considered common sense Americanism simply doesn't exist in so many people. The Communists have truly won in America.
Notice how he goes full bore Donger. He's the Donger of the left and he thinks he's being smart like that. [Reply]
The maximum allotted timeline for this intoxication-detecting tech's installation in cars is effectively nine years; however, it's possible it could stretch on for longer. The text later on in this section of the bill alludes to this possibility, stating that if 10 years have passed and this mandate hasn't been implemented, the Secretary of Transportation is gonna have to explain why and provide some possible steps forward.
Slimy car manufacturer lawyers are going to tear this to shreds. It's a price increase the manufacturers don't want. The existing state-funded industries that install and regulate DUI-required appliances for convicted people are going to have a great deal of arguments for this, with a lot of money behind them. The tech for everything they're wanting to do doesn't even realistically exist yet for mass manufacture. They've already said it's not going to be a breathalyzer style blow system. Again, there are countless more reasons why this is realistically unfeasible. [Reply]
The proposal is still dependent on the DOT's recommendation on how to actually implement it. Which is going to be very different than BEP's dailycaller fear mongering claims.
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Following an assessment by the Transportation Department on how to best introduce the proposed technology, automakers will be allowed the time necessary to meet compliance.
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
They don't want you driving cars. They want you taking the fucking bus.
This is where we're headed.
Originally Posted by Fish: Slimy car manufacturer lawyers are going to tear this to shreds. It's a price increase the manufacturers don't want. The existing state-funded industries that install and regulate DUI-required appliances for convicted people are going to have a great deal of arguments for this, with a lot of money behind them. The tech for everything they're wanting to do doesn't even realistically exist yet for mass manufacture. They've already said it's not going to be a breathalyzer style blow system. Again, there are countless more reasons why this is realistically unfeasible.
The major traditional manufacturers are heading towards bankruptcy and will be begging for bailouts again. They're not going to be in a position to fight. [Reply]
