In 2021, Sentinel warned about the kill switch in cars. It was in the $1.2 trillion Build Back Better Infrastructure bill that was slipped in with no fanfare.
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 reported.
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.
Leaving drivers in the hands of an algorithm is very dangerous.
Rep. Thomas Massie argued against it on the House floor last night, but his amendment was rejected with Democrats claiming the technology wouldn’t monitor or disable cars. He read the law to them, and they still wouldn’t relent.
Twenty-two Republicans also voted against the Amendment.
This is coming in cars sold after 2026, which means car manufacturers are preparing now.
The right to travel is fundamental, but the government has mandated a kill-switch in new vehicles sold after 2026. The kill-switch will monitor driver performance and disable cars based on the information gathered. We will vote on my amendment to defund this mandate tonight. pic.twitter.com/Uf0Z2yVNP1
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) November 8, 2023
The technology clearly monitors non-stop and disables cars. It’s a serious violation of privacy, and it’s dangerous.
Check the roll call vote to see if your representative voted yay or nay.
During debate last night on my amendment to defund the 2026 kill-switch mandate for cars, some Democrats claimed the technology wouldn’t monitor or disable cars. Here’s the actual law I had to read to them:
My amendment failed. Link to the roll call vote: https://t.co/YWufj9C2C3 pic.twitter.com/JDN1TltaDo
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) November 8, 2023
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Nothing really new here. They already exist and most drivers are not aware of them. I see a thriving business in overriding these kill switches which are already on many cars, especially tracking devices.
I’m sure the car manufacturers are already thinking of ways to make overriding these kill switches impossible. And the over controlling government will be exempt from it all.
I f you go YouTube you can already find kits and instructions to override these devices already installed on all types of cars, trucks, and other equipments, and with anything electrical there is always a method of overriding it. BTW, almost all rental cars have them installed today.
Another incident of distraction. Cloaked in the effort to “save lives’, it is difficult for pandering politicians to vote against. It’s true goal may be to provide government with a mechanism to shut your car off if you don’t ‘toe the line’. Worse, it would provide actors a way to murder you remotely, by controlling your car. Always look at worse case scenarios. If we ‘conspiracy theorists’ can imagine these things, the nefarious government has.
Power and Control . . It always starts out for the good of society. Just another way to stop free speech or political views. Think about it . . going down the road and your car gets shut off for no reason. hmmmm. . wonder if it had something to do with your latest post on twitter? Or maybe because you’re refusing the latest vaccine mandate.
This actually seems dangerous. So, if you swerve to avoid a dog in the road, The AI in the car thinks you are drunk and shuts the engine down right on the spot. Meanwhile, the 30 ton semi tailgating you flattens your car killing all occupents. The communists in DC also want to tax cars drivern per mile. I don’t see this ever happening as the economy is months away from collapse and a civil war.
Wonder how long your car stays off? Go out for a loaf of bread and it goes stale by the time you get it home.
Just one more reason to not buy a new car. I hope the small group of idiots applauding Biden from the UAW in Belvidere yesterday can suddenly grow a brain and realize electric vehicles are not what Americans want either. My bet is that plant never opens again as Biden toutes it will by 2028.
The value of used cars will go up and new car manufacturers will go bankrupt.
Brilliant.
All this does is create another industry to REMOVE this switch from the car.
We will find ways to block communication, just as a cell phone can be isolated.
Exactly.