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Posted on 04/30/2026 3:56:48 PM PDT by Libloather
Are you ready for your car to decide if you’re fit to drive? If not, you’d better buckle up.
A federal mandate declares new vehicles must have in-car surveillance for 2027 models onward that can decide if a person is fit to drive and can make the car inoperable via a so-called “kill switch.”
And don’t count on brushing your teeth or gargling with Listerine to work around the driver monitor if you’ve had one too many.
Most new cars won’t make the determination via breathalyzer, but infrared cameras continually monitoring potential impairment cues.
They include pupil size, head movements, eye movements and various behaviors consistent with a driver being out of it.
Such measures are sounding very loud alarm bells with privacy campaigners.
“This is invading every driver’s privacy, taking information, deciding if you’re drunk” without having all the evidence. “Then you get in the car and can’t start it,” Lauren Fix, an automotive expert who founded “Car Coach Reports,” told The Post.
The statute for the new system was buried in the 2021 Infrastructure Act, passed by the Biden administration, which aimed to increase road, bridge and airport safety.
“Originally, it was designed by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, a good group that doesn’t want anyone driving drunk. Nobody wants people driving drunk,” Fix noted.
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The goal of the left is to have everyone (except the ruling elite) drive the same car which will be monitored and controlled. T
The can call it, “The Peoples Car”.
Never use mouthwash that contains alcohol.
I LOVE MY 1976 1 TON 4 SPEED 454 CHEVY DUALLY TRUCK MORE EACH DAY-—ALONG WITH MY 1979 BUICK WAGON WITH A 403 OLDS ENGINE.
I HAD A BOUT OF VERTIGO DEC 22, 2025.
I HAVE NOT DRIVEN THE CAR SINCE NOV 26, MY MONTHLY SHOPPING TRIP.
HAD TO GO HELP A NEIGHBOR WITH A “LOOSE HORSE” LAST NIGHT AFTER DARK.
GOT IN CAR WITH HALTER & LEAD ROPE-—& FLASHLIGHT-—AND IT FIRED RIGHT UP. NO HESITATION-—SAT IDLE FOR 124 DAYS-—OUTSIDE.....
NEVER BUYING ANYTHING NEW. WHEN I HIT THE LOTTERY—_WILL RESTORE BOTH VEHICLES. THEY RUN WELL, COULD USE COSMETIC HELP.
When a tornado hits in 2027…👀 pic.twitter.com/irP8bHz5Zc— Gatlin Didier (@gatlin_didier) April 29, 2026
https://x.com/gatlin_didier/status/2049617318112534743/video/1
” who will figure out how to disable it without a trace.”
There is a possibility it can be disabled by figuring out what fuse powers it, then removing that fuse. This can be done on the GPS signals a car puts out so your movements can be monitored.
The best way to beat it is to just not buy any new cars.
There’s a ton of tech in in cars already that will kill your engine it’s just that no one knows when.
So, if someone is driving along, takes a few swigs from a flask or drinks a beer, then the system decides the driver is impaired, does it kill the engine right then? Seems like a great way to slaughter thousands in unnecessary crashes.
That’s it! Thanks! I could remember who posted it.
There will be MASSIVE lawsuits.
Carmakers will LOSE.
Democrats will laugh ‘cuz no accountability for them.
Beat me to it
Hell of a lot of republicans voted against him yet people think he’s the enemy somehow
You’re catching on...
Which is why they’re bound to force another cash for clunkers for older cars at some point. The noose tightens.
Big daddy gets a lot more control of our lives if it does happen.
Just saw a call from a Senator urging this be repealed. It gave the example of a woman fleeing an attacker, and a farmer injured in a mishap, not being able to start their own vehicles because of their stressed state. This is an incredibly Orwellian intrusion into our lives and I doubt the technology is as good as it needs to be.
In which case it simply won't start.
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