Even ignoring the privacy problems, and the many technical problems this would run into with false positives and faulty systems, this approach to the problem of drunk driving is misguided.
The US is one of the worst in the world for drunk driving, both in DUI rates, and how much blood alcohol is considered to be a DUI. Other countries are doing things way better than us, and a kill switch isnt their solution. We have shit like parking minimums for bars, and an abyssmal public transit infrastructure. Drunk driving is designed into our infrastructure. Even trying to address DUI convictions after the fact is discouraged here, because taking away someones ability to drive means taking away their functioning in American society.
The “law enforcement wouldn’t have access” part some groups focused on is a bit of a red herring. One, I don’t really believe it. But two, law enforcement would be sure to notice someone whose car wouldn’t drive over 15 mph all of a sudden or was disabled on the side of a road.
I could also picture this leading to so many different unsafe situations. Leaving a bad area of town at night after a show? Great, the system kicks in and disables your car leaving you stranded and at risk of robbery or kidnapping or assault whether you stay with your car or try to seek another ride. Driving home to a rural area in freezing weather with no cell service? Well, the system thinks you’re impaired so it disabled your car, leaving you at risk of hypothermia, sorry. Stressed because you’re late to a job interview? Sorry, the system determined you are driving in safely and disabled your car, so guess you won’t make it. It’s solidly dystopian.
Rural Canadian here. We get everything mandated in the USA because it’s not worth making Canadian models. Then we have to disable it.
This would be the absolute first thing to go on any vehicle purchased. We do DEF/DPF/SCR delete, traction control/stabilitrak delete just to make sure our vehicles are reliable and perform as expected in Arctic conditions.
Note that EGR delete isn’t on the list as EGR actually improves cruise efficiency while cutting emissions… And PCV delete is idiotic, I’ve added PCV to old vehicles that didn’t have it. It’s not like we just hate the environment or something.
The last thing we want is a system that could intentionally make the truck eat shit while we’re smashing snowdrifts with the bumper and trying to get home in a storm. It could literally kill us
It sounds like made up garbage to me, another weak attempt to smear Biden and his presidency by lame brains with no culture or education of their own. But even so, if there is such a thing as a vehicle kill switch, I can think of several people near for whom I'd love to see it implemented.
Just last week three kids were turned to bloody smears on the road by a teenage girl going 125 in our 25 mph zone neighborhood (a school zone). A week before, two kids were killed by another speeding teenage driver. Last year, we had 34 kids killed by people speeding in our neighborhood, and three left as quadriplegics.
I'm sure most people think they aren't such monsters behind the wheel, the truth is not in whatpeople say they do but in what they actually do behind the wheel. To me, a vehicle kill switch OUGHT to be implemented along with a host of other anti-speeding anti-reckless driving measures. I've seen too much what happens when people dangerously violate the lives of others and their rights to exist.
A little violation of personal privacy would go along way to helping stop these monsters on our roads.
Yeah but, I live in Utah. Driver's ed is mandatory but kids ignore all the advice they are given. And if you come here and expect to see civility - you're f#cking out of luck. You've never seen reckless drivers like we have here, you can't even begin to imagine how bad it really is.
It’s also another potential attack vector for hackers to use. Imagine hackers getting control of the system (or simply finding whatever standardized backdoor the companies have been forced to include) and being able to shut down an entire city over a weekend.
Actually just the opposite but I don't expect people as young and unaware as you to understand. It's people like you who kill kids on our roads because you don't want to have to slow down in school zones, wear seat belts, or obey any laws that get in the way of your "good time."
I'll take a billion cowardly officers over one cowardly idiot like you any day of the week. We can't afford a society with people of your low education. I hope you get educated soon about the idiocy of your own actions.
They’re totally right. I drive slowly on surface streets and am insanely careful around kids, pets and motorcyclists. Wanting to have control of my vehicle has nothing to do with having a good time. It has to do with government invasion of my life.
It seems like this bill assumes 1 driver per car and 1 car per driver. There are plenty of folks who share a car, and plenty of folks who own more than one. Also would the sensor know if you are driving on an icy road or with low visibility due to dense fog? Would it suddenly shut you car off in the middle of winter and leave you to freeze to death?
I hope they DO mandate a vehicle kill switch, and I hope anyone who argues against it is the first killed by people disabling these on their cars. Humans are absolute monsters behind the wheel, and can't be trusted to follow the rules of the road at all. I'm all for this. I'm parading around on this issue, I'm supporting it, I love it, and I want to see it happen as soon as possible.
Don't like it? You can stick up your fanny along with your hateful responses. The instrument has yet to be invented that could begin to measure the indifference I feel toward your argumentative responses.
I could also picture this leading to so many different unsafe situations. Leaving a bad area of town at night after a show? Great, the system kicks in and disables your car leaving you stranded and at risk of robbery or kidnapping or assault whether you stay with your car or try to seek another ride. Driving home to a rural area in freezing weather with no cell service? Well, the system thinks you’re impaired so it disabled your car, leaving you at risk of hypothermia, sorry. Stressed because you’re late to a job interview? Sorry, the system determined you are driving in safely and disabled your car, so guess you won’t make it. It’s solidly dystopian. !squiblet
As anyone who has ever had to have an interlock in their car can tell you, the Police give 0 fucks if the interlock messes up on its own giving an "abnormality" then they're dragging you to court and/or jail while they figure it out.
Any system that can be used to monitor citizens will be, ex. the NSA and the revelations that caused an American hero to have to hide in a literal dictatorial country. You can't trust the government or law enforcement with any information. PERIOD.
Ban freedom. Ban independence. Put all faith in your increasingly hostile government.
You think us uncaring. We think you a fool.
The legislation then goes on to define the technology as a computer system that can “passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle” and can “prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if an impairment is detected” (emphasis added).
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