The three main problems I see here are 1: How are they going to determine if the pilot actually has it on without detaining them, 2. how is that going to work with outboard motors and the pilot sitting in front of the motor, and 3. I have never seen a boat with the type of plug in unit in the cockpit or bridge required as a killswitch. This I assume will have to be built into the dash and programed into the computers, thus expense. Boating just got more expensive. And if the boats are required to have them, new purchases will be higher in cost until the “shine” of having one gets old and will effect resales for a while also.
rwood
A killswitch can be very simple; there are some for industrial equipment that cost less than $20 and you wire them in series with the ignition or engine control. No programming needed.
Here is one that you can buy to retrofit older engines and is standard on most recent newer ones: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Kill-Switch-with-Lanyard-BR51303/203494924
All you have to do is clip the line to something, it don’t have to be you. Clip it to the fishfinder.
1. If the boat keeps going after he is thrown out.
2. $5.99 at Walmart.
3. keep looking. All new boats less than26 feet will have them.
The kill switch is on the throttle/shift control box. On tiller outboards Mercury has it mounted on the frame