Do you get a reduction in your insurance for having this tech?
The Fourth Amendment was effectively destroyed by the mandate for GPS tracking cell phones.
“’Kill Switch’ to be mandated in cars by 2026 with software deciding if you’re too impaired to drive”
‘Kill Switch’ to be mandated in cars by 2026 with software deciding if you’re too impaired to drive or if the government decides you don’t need or deserve to drive
There, fixed it
How much you want to bet that the government will use such a kill switch on anyone that they disagree with.
Any chance it can be tasked to screen people who are just too STUPID to drive?
Big Brother is watching your every move.
He’s trying to make you cashless as well.
For every measure someone will think up a countermeasure.
I can see software for overly tired drivers. But there is no test for marijuana or other drugs.
Driver impairment is NOT the issue here. Outfitting all vehicles with a kill switch is the issue. Impairment is just a pretext. There won’t likely be a workable way for the vehicle to detect if a driver is impaired.
This is a back-door to neutralizing driver control.
The important question is…who to sue when the “vehicle control system” malfunctions and causes an accident. What happens when the kill switch activates in the middle of a busy intersection?
Personal injury lawyers should be all over this.
Additionally, if a “vehicle control system” is hacked or malfunctions, it shouldn’t result in a ticket or points for the human behind the wheel.
It’s for your safety folks. It won’t be abused. Driving while being conservative will not be on the list of ‘’imparirments”
In the meantime, they keep pumping our cars with entertainment systems (Navigation, Bluetooth, texting and phone, climate controls, lane assists, other nanny options and etc.) that distract drivers
My car has dozens of opportunities to keep me busy and take my eyes off the road.
(But hey. At least it can park itself!)
That could mess up a lot of carjackers.
In very short order, a device will be available online that will activate these kill switches remotely. They will be purchased by bandits in no-go zones in cities to create a kill-box.
I don’t want this, but my experience with a repeat drunk driver trying to kill me, but happily only killing my car, has me favor a more modest plan if they are bound to do something. I don’t know the statistical details but gather that many drunk drivers are repeat offenders whom are little deterred by having their license pulled. State’s don’t want to pay for locking them all up long term. My perp’s license was suspended and was driving someone else’s car and he was caught driving drunk again 6 months later. Since we deem it safe for millions of our pets, we should, with all due legal process, give the courts the option to officially “chip” those they deem prone to repeat. And require new cars to have a sensor to detect such chips present above the driver’s seat. If sensor detects the chip, and thus an illegal driver, car won’t run. No chip detected it runs normally. Given time the drunks will have trouble finding cars old enough to let them drive and cops will learn to look closer at how such older cars are driven. Simpler and much less to go wrong than with their plan. Won’t stop first time offenders, but only the guilty given due process are restricted. Require the chipped to be periodically scanned to make sure they are still chipped. Leave it to “due process” to manage any medical concerns.
And that’s why my next car will be a 1965 chevy C-10.
CC
So, you grilled red meat in your back yard yesterday, and you have procreative sex with your wife on a regular basis, inflicting resource-consuming children upon the earth?
Well, congratulations. You’re impaired. Your car won’t take you anywhere.
There is no constitutional right to operate a motor vehicle, so this should be up to each state, just like DUI laws are.
Used car prices are about to go way up, way up.
I’ll keep my 1997 Toyota, thank you very much!
Wonder how they define impaired booze weed pills?.