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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."

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: automobiles; dictators; drivers; driving; government; killswitch; nhtsa; vehicles
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They want to control our travel. I think they want to eliminate half of the people to "save the planet".
1 posted on 02/17/2024 1:13:50 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

Actually, the Globalists can’t agree on the number of people to be reduced. The more enlightened ones think 50% would be sufficient while the purists think the earth can support only a half billion people.


2 posted on 02/17/2024 1:17:42 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: CFW

We need an amendment that says no budget may pass containing new rules or regulations. Anything that is a rule or law must be passed individually, so they can’t sneak this kind of thing through on us.


3 posted on 02/17/2024 1:19:33 PM PST by Twotone (We have to stop punishing ourselves for considering things that once seemed crazy. - B. Weinstein)
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To: Vigilanteman

Either way, they’re both genocidal maniacs who don’t deserve any wealth or power.


4 posted on 02/17/2024 1:19:48 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: CFW

Tyranny, thy name is leftism.


5 posted on 02/17/2024 1:20:12 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Any car with a remote start fob also has a remote stop switch installed.
6 posted on 02/17/2024 1:20:29 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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>> The provision was meant only to keep drunk drivers off the road

“we’re the govt and we’re here to help”

Damn shame there are so many squeamish #ing Rats that effectively vote for this garbage

No coincidence the MSM has them emotionally controlled.


7 posted on 02/17/2024 1:20:41 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: CFW

The Feddies really don’t want to do this, do they? Our side has a lot of teenybopper hackers that will make them pay.


8 posted on 02/17/2024 1:21:42 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I don't think the Founding Fathers intended to have a government that pushes Americans around.)
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Super easy to do with an EV car.
A new version of CA rolling blackouts.
This is their plan to regulate all transportation.


9 posted on 02/17/2024 1:22:22 PM PST by Zathras
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To: zeugma

Any car that would allow the remote start fob to kill the engine while driving was designed by an idiot.


10 posted on 02/17/2024 1:23:14 PM PST by brianl703
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To: CFW

They want the deep state asassins to catch up to you.


11 posted on 02/17/2024 1:23:44 PM PST by Doctor DNA (These walls have ears!)
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To: CFW

If your vehicle has OnStar, they can disable it remotely. No warrant needed.


12 posted on 02/17/2024 1:25:20 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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What do you think is the impetus behind EVs?

A 200-mile range and it takes hours to recharge... the message I’m receiving is “STAY HOME.”


13 posted on 02/17/2024 1:34:00 PM PST by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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Saw a movie years back where the government attempted to murder someone but shutting off his car on the train tracks and disabling his doors so he couldn’t get out. Can’t recall if he escaped.


14 posted on 02/17/2024 1:34:53 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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The price of 30-year old pre-OBD vehicles is about to skyrocket even more.


15 posted on 02/17/2024 1:36:01 PM PST by txeagle
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To: CFW

They want to control everything


16 posted on 02/17/2024 1:36:40 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: CFW

Think we can vote our way out?


17 posted on 02/17/2024 1:37:00 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I don’t believe that .

I would pay good money to get my car off the net. Perhaps with a switch. Nobody is offering that improvement..

Why not?


18 posted on 02/17/2024 1:39:16 PM PST by Chickensoup
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come up with a rule by this year requiring new cars to have “advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology.”

I'll never own anything newer than early to mid 2000s because they started having too much tech and connectivity in them around that time.

19 posted on 02/17/2024 1:40:34 PM PST by Pollard (Hi)
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To: Salman

See my tag line.


20 posted on 02/17/2024 1:40:46 PM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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