"kill switch" law implementation timeframe?

[Astro14]

Pretty sure my 1932 Packard doesn’t have this…

 

[tmorris1]

I'm 100% certain CNN and Snoopes will call it "misinformation".

That usually means it is true or at least partly true

 

[tmorris1]

This thread is false, there is no such thing.
Here’s an explanation. Good old social media, the scary thing …
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/congress-cars-kill-switch-law/

It is all there. It just doesn't give the government control of it, but that doesn't say they can't have control of it. Seems like a good place for bad thing to be introduced into the computer system.

 

[oil pan 4]

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (HR 3684) signed into law in 2021...... That mandate requires vehicles to be manufactured so they include a “kill switch” that empowers government to remotely disable the vehicles using surveillance technology. If “impaired” driving is suspected, the auto will shut down.

I wonder what year of manufacture will have this implemented? I just purchased a 2025 Wrangler and wonder if my new Jeep has this technology.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), along with cosponsors Reps. Scott Perry (R-PA) and Chip Roy (R-TX), tried to repeal the bill, but it was voted down, 268 to 164.

From Rep Massie.....
"The car itself will monitor your driving. And, if the car thinks that you’re not doing a good job driving, it will disable itself. So, the car dashboard becomes your judge, your jury, and your executioner."

"Imagine this. We’ve got a snowstorm coming. A mom takes here kids out. They’re going to the grocery store. It’s snowing. They’re trying to get some groceries before the big storm hits. She swerves for a pothole. The neighbor’s pet gets in the way. She swerves for that. A first responder goes by. She pulls over. Her car says, ‘you’ve got one more swerve and then we’re gonna ground you.’ There it is, the next thing she has to avoid — an icy patch in the road. The car has adjudicated her as unsuitable for driving. It disables the vehicle, and there she’s stranded."

I'm sure the first versions will be designed by people in California who have never had to drive to work in bad weather so snow and bad weather will never be a consideration.
I'd be more concerned with something like another round of covid mass hysteria and the government shutting off everyone's cars.
So what if you don't have a remote shutdown car. When they shutdown everything else the roads will be clogged with inop cars.
Or maybe some kids hack the system, because they think it's will be funny, or maybe china or Russia. It's going to have to be easy enough for law enforcement to use and cheap enough for them to buy into. That guarantees it's going be cheap and idiot proof, both qualities don't lend themselves to high levels of security. Quite the opposite infact.

 

[alarmguy]

It is all there. It just doesn't give the government control of it, but that doesn't say they can't have control of it. Seems like a good place for bad thing to be introduced into the computer system.

Yeah but that is a conspiracy theory with no fact.
The device is not controlled remotely, its an internal device hooked to a breathalyzer not different then an ignition key.
However, if your car is like a Tesla, GM OnStar etc etc, connected it can be shut down remotely so that cat is out of the bag but the reality of the legislation does not force manufacturers to installed devices giving government control of your car.

 

[tmorris1]

Yeah but that is a conspiracy theory with no fact.
The device is not controlled remotely, its an internal device hooked to a breathalyzer not different then an ignition key.
However, if your car is like a Tesla, GM OnStar etc etc, connected it can be shut down remotely so that cat is out of the bag but the reality of the legislation does not force manufacturers to installed devices giving government control of your car.

So is every car going to have a breathalyzer in it? It says that it needs to monitor BAC. A lot of
conspiracy theories end up being true with time.