“But soon enough the federal government will want to regulate all of it - control your speed, look at your face with internal cameras, install technology to ensure you’re not drunk, and shut off your car remotely among other forms of control.”
Coming to all cars jn a few years. Republicans tried to kill existing law last month but too many sided with the democrats.
Passed in 2021 Infrastrucure bill.
Assuming the technology exists. They are playing a sort of double-game here. They don’t want to allow automated driving to proceed at the pace it can be safely developed but at the same time they want to implement a whole host of other controls - and there is little financial incentive to develop things like “breathalyzers” or “eyeball monitors”. They can mandate it, but that doesn’t mean it can be reliably developed, deployed at scale, or that it can’t be bypassed or hacked.
But I’m sure the first thing they will want is the ability to shut off your car via remote. Which is probably very easy to implement with electric cars controlled by software and wifi.
Not too surprised that Democrats would want that kind of technology even though it would probably introduce more defects than anybody realized was possible. These are supposed to be educated people, so why can’t they sit down & figure out the possible defects in such a system? Did they all graduate from Harvard?