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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I got skills I m going to hack the $$$hit out of my next car.
My wife and I will stick with our mint condition 2005 Ford 500...
Been happy with it for 21 years...
Bigger and more comfortable than any new car...
Perfect for a couple of old folks...
One of the neighbors in my childhood neighborhood had an early 60s Dodge truck.
I was looking at it one day because something seemed odd. I got right up to the hood where the stamped steel letters were attached, and sure enough it said “D D D G E.”
I guess they ran out of “Os” that day.
Paw told me three things, statements you could call them, way back in the 70's that I can still hear him saying in my head now:
1. Americans will never give up their big cars
2. Manufacturers will make it so you can no longer work on your own car
3. One day your car will tell on you.
He was right on all three.
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