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Posted on 04/02/2026 12:59:05 PM PDT by MtnClimber
A new law requires new cars to include some rear seating, so to speak, for Big Brother.
According to reports such as this one in Blaze Media, the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act requires that: “Car manufacturers will need to comply with new AI tracking technology requirements by the end of the year.
The add-ons will place cameras pointed directly at the driver's face to monitor eye movements, among other bodily functions.” The bill is ostensibly intended to "ensure the prevention of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities” via advanced prevention technology that "must be standard equipment in all new passenger motor vehicles."
“Among other bodily functions?!”
According to the Blaze, this “advanced prevention technology” will be required to "passively monitor" the performance of a driver in order to "accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired.” If said technology, for any reason, believes the driver to be “impaired,” it could limit the vehicle’s performance or even disable the vehicle outright.
Welcome to 1984 writ large, ladies and gentleman.
No sane person will defend drunk driving, but far more people are killed in motor vehicle accidents in which alcohol isn’t involved, so why not just ban motor vehicles altogether if safety is the goal?
Better yet, let’s just allow the government to lock all of us citizens down, manacle us to our beds, and point three or four cameras at us -- and perhaps we could finally be sure that no one would die from a vehicular accident.
Government could once again make it a crime to leave our houses. Be assured, though, that repeat violent criminals would still be allowed to roam free. Rightfully so, as they have been marginalized in the past! This could be a “twofer” for bureaucrats and the incoming Democrat administration in 2029.
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And it will be only months before there are tools to reprogram your car to delete these functions just like I deleted start-stop in one of my vehicles.
But Mr. Griffin, we can’t install software that will disable the car, lock the doors and call the police if the driver has much darker skin than you.
Anyone check the date on this story? I will bet it was yesterday.
Federal government exempt.
Or, most states could remove those caught driving drunk from the highways. Instead we have people with multiple drunk driving charges still legally driving. Absurd.
“so why not just ban motor vehicles altogether if safety is the goal?”
You can take the bus.
Equality can get out of hand, comrade.
Some donkeys are more equal than others.
Drive on, chauffer.
“Anyone check the date on this story? I will bet it was yesterday.”
Sadly, it’s true. All new cars will need a disabling feature, per federal law. Seems to me, that is a form of trespass on private property.
Ahh well, easy enough, 2025 will be my cutoff year for any new vehicles.
Not my ‘68 Dodge Power Wagon.
The only electronic thing in that truck is a set of alternator diodes, of which I keep spares.
This isn’t a new law. The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Section 24220) requires all new passenger vehicles to include “advanced impaired driving prevention technology”. IOW, it’s been in place for ove five years.
Glad I just purchased a 2015 vehicle which I plan to drive for the next ten years. My other vehicle is a golf cart.
They already can track some vehicles passing by the sensors.
Useful for blackmail. Probably explains a lot of judges’ and Congressional decisions that seem weird to us.
Movie Murder By Death:
Peter Falk to David Niven: “You high class rich guys. Have you ever had an affair with a fat, blonde waitress you met in a cheap restaurant?”
“No.”
“You guys don’t know what you’re missing.”
I just got done watching ‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist’ Typical Liberal thinking. ‘Everybody needs to come together!’. Apparently the producers don’t know how regulation actually works . Their are two limiting factors on A.I. The first is semiconductor production. It takes billions of dollars to build factories . It takes months to actually make a chip and at least twice as long to make the factories which make them. The second limit is electricity. A.I..needs lost of power to work. Without that it does not happen. I find it had to be worried about something going out of control when it takes so much work just to make it happen.
Mine, so far, is 2001.
Insurance companies already do it w/o AI.
Opaque tape.
I had a 1975 Oldsmobile which had the “seat belt interlock” installed, but later legally disabled by the dealer due to the public and political outcry.
This is going to go the same way.
Amen brother.... pretty much any American made pre-75 vehicle is golden. Track that butt sniffers.
I’m getting FSD so I can keep drinking until last call.
Drunks will just stop buying new cars, except Tiger Woods.
ANOTHER REASON TO KEEP MY “OLD IRON”.
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