Posted on 08/05/2021 5:28:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Anti-drunk driving technology may become standard on all cars in the next few years under one of the provisions baked into the $1 trillion federal infrastructure bill.
The 2,702-page bill under negotiation also includes a provision that would require manufacturers to equip new vehicles with an alert system to let drivers know that kids or other passengers have been left in the backseat after the engine has been turned off.
The new technologies would target alcohol-related car crashes and increasing incidents of kids dying in hot cars.
The bill defines the preventative technology for impaired driving as anything that could “passively and accurately detect” if someone’s blood alcohol concentration is above the legal limit.
“To ensure the prevention of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology must be standard equipment in all new passenger motor vehicles,” the bill states.
Stephanie Manning, chief government affairs officer for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, stressed that the bill would require passive technology.
“We are not talking about Breathalyzers, we are not talking about ignition interlocks – those are punitive measures,” Manning told The Post.
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Out of control government is out of congtrol.
Time to find a car without ODB ports. What year where the introduced? I need to start shopping.
The WP article fails to mention the milage tax of personal vehicle use this infrastructure bill will also initiate. They say it will be a pilot program but we all know once implemented that it will become a fixture for DC tax revenues.
You got that people. The 99% of the people who don’t drive drunk are going to have blow in device to start there car every time they go anywhere.
People are so gullible that they will put up with anything.
This is good news—I would have thought the climate change crowd would have banned cars by now.
Instead they are just making them more expensive and hostile to users!
And no one is going to be able afford a car anymore anyways with all this crap added on. Especially the poor and the minorities. So this is Racist!!!!
What company makes these sensors so we can at least buy the stock tomorrow?
I’m no fan of drunk or drugged driving (will this gizmo detect folks high on weed/opiates/meth? Thought not), what gives the GOV the right to regulate me using my vehicle on my own property?
That would be racist.
Just last week I read somewhere that the liberals plan for fighting gun violence was the equivalent of fighting drunk driving but making it harder for people who don’t drink to buy cars. Damn if that wasn’t prescient.
They will install a device that has the capability to not only track your movement, they will monitor every detail of everything in the environment of the vehicle and store the data via wireless connection. That database is searchable to anyone with access. We all know this government would never abuse something like that (cough fisa cough). Add to that hackers and court orders. This is a very bad idea.
Much of the countryside has no wireless connection (despite stupid cell phone company claims to the contrary).
How is this tech supposed to work in those areas, exactly?
My 2017 Ford has an inside trunk release in case some gets trapped in the trunk. Less than a handful of cases of this happening each year and most are small children who wouldn’t have the strength to open the release nor read the instructions. Government safety mandate
No, it will be artificial intelligence that will disable your car if it detects you driving “badly” (“badly” to be defined by “experts”), or if your Democrat Score is too low.
If this becomes law it may be time to consider Central Europe.
We live in a crazy world where every day thousands of Americans go into debt for up to 7 years purchasing a new vehicle that they do not fully control and that spies on them.
My 25-year career in software development has provided me all the proof I need that anything with digital electronics cannot be trusted because it all runs software that acts as a control mechanism and spymaster for the manufacturers and the government.
The only protection regular Americans have now from this abuse now is that they have some “anonymity in numbers.” However, that anonymity disappears the very second an American “gets on the radar” of the federal government and bureaucrats and agents start digging into the ginormous NSA Data centers and they find out everything about you .
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