What do you think about the new law mandating kill switches on all cars made after 2026? This is insane!
It's not really a kill switch, but the car monitoring the driver has a really Orwellian ring to it.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-402773429497
Interesting!
"advanced drunk and impaired driving technology to become standard equipment in new cars"
sounds already like the DAW system (Driver Attention Warning) installed in my cars and most new cars anyway.
https://youtu.be/25yeFv83lhI
Some newer cars even can autonomously stop the car if they deem the driver has become incapacitated.
https://youtu.be/wmw-7R_GIzI?si=_UswxnGGVlSgiNoQ
link is broken
@imperator, Drat, it was working when I posted it. Here's a similar one:
kill switches on all cars made after 2026
This was included in the last infrastructure bill. The provision allows government access to a cars electronics. I doubt very much thought, if any, was given by lawmakers to the possible unintended consequences. Just another example of too much government regulation.
that's fake news apparently
"the bill does not direct a kill switch to be implemented in cars, nor does it give any third parties, including law enforcement or government officials, access to the in-vehicle technology."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/01/19/fact-check-false-claim-bill-mandates-kill-switch-cars-police-drunk-driving/11066287002/
Yeah, it's misleading at the least. Stopping & reducing impaired driving was the goal of the law, not the 'kill switches' bs. My comment is targeted towards a statement which is true: "The law gives the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an agency under the Department of Transportation, three years to define which specific technologies cars should begin using. Once defined, automakers have between two and three years to comply." Obviously a government agency, the DOT decides what technologies will, or will not be used to limit impaired driving.
Yet another electronic system that's going to break and malfunction. Parts will be unavailable or expensive to fix. Except this time it won't be something benign like power mirrors or something. It's going to render you immobile.
What they need is more patrols, but people decided police needed to be "defunded"
What an absolute nightmare and travesty.
Well, cars already have all kinds of computer antitheft systems
