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Government Bureaucrats Could Use 'Kill Switch' to Stop People From Driving Because... Reasons
Red State ^ | 2/17/24 | Wes Clark

Posted on 02/17/2024 1:13:50 PM PST by CFW

A provision in the 2021 "infrastructure" spending package, as it turns out, includes a provision that directs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to come up with a way to stop you from driving your car or truck if the government doesn't want you to. The measure is sold as a way to keep people from driving while impaired, but the implications are chilling.

"A provision in the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden signed in 2021 directed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to come up with a rule by this year requiring new cars to have “advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology.”

The law describes this tech as being able to “passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle” and “prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if an impairment is detected.”

Critics immediately raised privacy, cost, and reliability concerns any such “monitoring” system would raise, only to be reassured by the mainstream press that this was much ado about nothing. The provision was meant only to keep drunk drivers off the road."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: automobiles; dictators; drivers; driving; government; killswitch; nhtsa; vehicles
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To: CFW

Well let’s see what they’ll shut you down for and maybe issue a ticket too: driving more than 10 mph over the limit - good luck passing jerks who speed up when you try to pass. Driving more than 50 miles from your home more than once a month. Driving to forbidden places (eg synagog, church, rifle range, gun store). This is a horrendous invasion of privacy.


41 posted on 02/17/2024 3:00:36 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Zathras

Easy to do with any modern car. They’re all computer controlled anyway.


42 posted on 02/17/2024 3:02:18 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Chickensoup

Recent onstar is integrated, but older is a separate box that can be disconnected by unhooking 3 connections.


43 posted on 02/17/2024 3:05:26 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Vigilanteman

I keep saying Thanos wrote the Dems playbook. They keep looking for a way to snap their fingers and poof, 50% of the worlds pious gone.


44 posted on 02/17/2024 3:05:36 PM PST by midwest_hiker
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To: CFW; All

The insurance industry is pushing much of this. They want to be able to track you in detail so if you have an accident (or speed!) the accident report is essentially self-written. Also by having all this information at their fingertips they can reconstruct your driving profile to set your rates. Of course they can provide all this to the government if it asks. A remote “kill switch “ on driving is icing on the cake. Haven’t paid your premium in mandatory insurance state , you’re not driving! Again it could be provided to government very easily. Late with your state vehicle property taxes - you’re not driving!


45 posted on 02/17/2024 3:05:44 PM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: CFW

So if you’re trying to avoid an accident, the car is going to think you’re drunk.


46 posted on 02/17/2024 3:16:39 PM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: CFW

“only to be reassured by the mainstream press that this was much ado about nothing. The provision was meant only to keep drunk drivers off the road.”

Hey, speaking of kill switches, I’ve got an idea. How about having each reporter who propagated or propagates that particular narrative agree to be killed the moment the first kill-switched vehicle is stopped by any government agent, action, or proxy, for ANY reason other than for that stated reason. You know, to cut down on the spread of misinformation.


47 posted on 02/17/2024 3:24:39 PM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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spjnk


48 posted on 02/17/2024 3:40:44 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: hoosierham; Chickensoup

You expect people to advertise breaking of federal and maybe state laws?


49 posted on 02/17/2024 3:45:40 PM PST by Pollard (Hi)
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To: zeugma

Not mine. The 3G network it depended upon has been shut off.

Federal Government employees, last I checked, were not in charge of designing the remote start systems in vehicles.

If the remote start keyfob could shut the engine off while driving, that is a serious accident waiting to happen. Lawyers would have a field day.


50 posted on 02/17/2024 3:49:47 PM PST by brianl703
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To: CFW

They also can turn off your washer and dryer and heat stop. They will control everything in your life if you let them.


51 posted on 02/17/2024 3:58:22 PM PST by 5inch38gunner
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To: zeugma

Any amendment proposed will still have to be ratified by 38 states. I don’t think an attack on the 2nd will work.

I can see dangers also, but what we’re doing isn’t getting us anywhere. We can’t trust elections & our elected officials all appear to be blackmailed or threatened in some way. They will not do what WE, the people, want. To the detriment of all.


52 posted on 02/17/2024 4:22:54 PM PST by Twotone (We have to stop punishing ourselves for considering things that once seemed crazy. - B. Weinstein)
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To: Pollard

Is it breaking federal or state laws to disconnect broadcasting auto electronics? Seriously?

Why?


53 posted on 02/17/2024 5:35:50 PM PST by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

When it was freezing last month it sure was nice being able to start my Silverado remotely. When I got in the steering wheel was warmed up as was the seat heater.

I’ve had this truck about 8 months and only know a fraction of all the “stuff” on it. I did watch a YouTube video on how to change a tire if I need to, but I carry a compressor and plug kit so maybe I won’t have to.


54 posted on 02/17/2024 7:40:38 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Bfd

You want warm seats?

What people give away.


55 posted on 02/17/2024 8:21:13 PM PST by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

Seems easy enough if one is reasonably handy:

https://www.wikihow.com/Deactivate-OnStar


56 posted on 02/18/2024 4:58:50 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$

But most of us are not reasonably handy. I would like to put an order in about how I want my electronics work.

Can that happen.


57 posted on 02/18/2024 8:44:50 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

Yes, but I suggest that you develop a relationship with a good technician based shop. If you just pull in and ask them to disable your Onstar the answer will most likely be - We don’t do that.


58 posted on 02/18/2024 8:51:54 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: LeoTDB69

Perhaps “Eraser” with Arnold Terminator?


59 posted on 02/18/2024 10:00:19 AM PST by JackFromTexas (- Not For Hire -)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Why don’t they do it?

Is there a secret law that all vehicles past a certain date must be grid connected?


60 posted on 02/19/2024 4:46:01 AM PST by Chickensoup
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