Posted on 04/30/2024 9:32:32 AM PDT by xoxox
How much of your safety should you delegate to government?
In the name of safety, the government has taken steps that critics say have denied citizens what used to be considered inalienable constitutional rights.
Citizens are concerned that their right to freedom of speech under the First Amendment is being denied, ostensibly, to keep citizens safe from "harmful misinformation," and fear that the Second Amendment right to bear arms is being infringed upon to combat gun violence. Watchdogs further contend that citizens are being denied the Fifth Amendment's protection against self-incrimination and the Sixth Amendment's right to face one's accuser when technology is used to gather evidence.
The fear now is that increased use of technology will soon mean an even greater loss of privacy and further erosion of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, due to certain provisions in Joe Biden's infrastructure bill which will soon become mandatory. Under the guise of keeping citizens safe by preventing drunk driving, it may amount to ceding the freedom to travel to government control.
H.R.3684 - Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Drunk and Impaired Driving Prevention Technology
(Excerpt) Read more at frontline.news ...
That could mess up a lot of carjackers.
Kill switch to be enabled if your social credit score falls below 95%.
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.
So in the event of Biden calling for Marshall Law lockdown, he could prevent people from escaping using their cars.
One suspects that the potential for abuse is likely not lost among those who desire power.
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.
Agree
And that’s why my next car will be a 1965 chevy C-10.
CC
Two words: “faraday bag.”
CC
Buy a new POS and take a pair of Wire Cutters and “adjust” the Antenna wire...
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?.
So, if deployed, will this result in an *increase* in impaired driving, as people substitute the judgement of the system for their own or others’ advice?
2026 - “Sorry, Dave, I cannot let you drive. You are drunk.”
2027 - “Dave, you are 3 mph over the speed limit. I’m reducing your speed.”
2028 - “Dave, I cannot let you drive to the gun store.”
2029 - “Dave, you voted Republican in the last election. I cannot let you drive.”
2030 - “Dave, you cannot put more than two gallons of gasoline in my tank today.”
2031 - “Sorry, Dave. Your Social Credit Score is pathetic. I’m locking the doors and calling the authorities.”
You’re being optimistic.
There’s a REAL easy solution to that issue. Don’t buy a cell phone with gps capability.
It has been illegal to manufacture phones without gps capability since 2016. See post 20.
Very few phones made before 2016 still work on the existing networks.
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