Take a closer look at the infrastructure bill they jammed through, Section 24220. Snuck inside the recently passed $1.2 trillion legislation is a proposal to have a lockout device to be installed in all new cars. This is no joke and has already passed in Congress and the House.
Take a closer look at the Infrastructure bill they jammed through, Section 24220. This mandates installation of equipment to listen to in-car noises and conversation, monitor eyes, and "kill switches" to automatically turn off your car. It states, all new cars in the United States will be required to install these kill switches by 2026.
Last November, former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr, R-GA, warned that such devices are a “privacy disaster in the making,” while further warning the law is “disturbingly short on details.” We have covered automotive kill switches in the past. If you dig deeper you will find even more details. Nobody can argue that drunk drivers are an issue with road safety. However the latest proposal by the Biden administration raises some serious questions.
In all vehicles built after 2026, drivers will no longer have the sole choice as to whether or not a car may be driven, and instead that decision will be, at least in part, put in the hands of an algorithm over which the car’s owner or driver have neither knowledge nor control.