The Build Back Better bill has been cut back to $1.85T but the programs remain. It looks like there were cuts thanks to accounting tricks. One of the clauses still in it is a kill switch for all cars, not just for people convicted of drunk driving. We reported this in August when it was in the first trillion-dollar infrastructure bill.
Marketed to Congress as a benign tool to help prevent drunk driving, the so-called infrastructure measure has a kill switch for your car. It will mandate it for every car in five years, former Rep. Bob Barr reports.
The “safety” device must “passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired.”
Passively means it will always be on and monitoring the car. It connects to controls and can disable it at any time it deems the driver is impaired. It is an open system which means it has a backdoor allowing third parties to remotely access it at any time.
Forget privacy. People won’t have control over their own car which could end up going awry at any time.
Leaving drivers and passengers in the hands of an algorithm is very dangerous. This is tyranny.
How is this constitutional?
It is only one of many problems with this bill, and this is only one.
This is just more from the GESTOPO of the Socialist democrats !! CONTROL and OWN you is what the NAZI democrats are all about !!! Show these Socialist in 2022 at the polls ,,, that there is no place for them in OUR country !! They should all move to CHINA where they’d be happy .
Can someone please put a kill switch on Biden?
Do not buy any vehicle manufactured after 202
I hate to be the one to break the bad news, but if you have onstar or any other program like that you already have a kill switch on your vehicle. Now go find yourself and old clunker.
The Fascocrats can’t help themselves. Totalitarian control is natural to them. Fortunately, God reigns in heaven above and on the earth beneath, and the criminals will reap a harvest from the desperate evil they have planted.
Many of you will be too young to remember the seatbelt/starter fiasco of 1974, but here it is in a nutshell: Congress thought it would be a good thing to wire cars so that they would not start unless the driver was setting in the seat with the seatbelt fastened. They passed such a law. When the cars came out they were immediately unpopular. What if you wanted to adjust the carb or some other thing with the engine running? Well, they had a plug-in on the firewall so that mechanics could purchase a plug which would override the system. Car owners were not supposed to be allowed to purchase it. So forget about working on your own car. What if you only wanted to back up the car five feet to get your kid’s ball which rolled under the car? You had to be setting in the seat with the belt buckled to start the car. You could not just fasten the belt and leave it on the seat. No, you had to actually be setting in the seat with the belt fastened. It probably took someone all of five minutes to figure out how to cut the wires under the seat and twist the ends together to override the system. I have never seen a 1974 car with this system still intact. It was so unpopular and the public raised such a stink with Congress that the law was repealed within a few months. If this kill switch system is tried on today’s cars it should not take some clever person much time to figure a way to override it just as car owners did with the seatbelt/starter system in 1974.
@ JV,
I like it and added to the lexicon. Internet high five.
Credit will be given if it is ever used in a comment.
Well played.
Could they turn your car off at 80 mph in the left lane?
It could happen right after a thought crime post online or if you were in attendance at the dastardly horny Viking coup putsch insurrection.
Naw…coincidence theory.
‘Conspirationally’ legit???
Government Motors lead the way as usual.
Get an older car to get around it until the CCP takes out the grid with the EMP.
Since everything is a human right and free could we all have some sporty flatulence powered Zil-Trabants from GM, hook it up Brandon. Yes you can!
BTW-The Germans made a methane powered VW Beetle during WWII.
O/T-Just read that Jo Jo Brandon said ‘end of message’ at the Bob Dole tribute and the FBI is hiding J6 transcripts because it doesn’t fit the narrative. (h/t-NF)
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