by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:
Imagine that you just received a very alarming phone call and you are in a panic to get home. Unfortunately, since your eyes are wide and full of alarm because of the phone call that you just received, the AI kill switch in your vehicle will not allow you to drive anywhere. This is not a scenario which may or may not happen someday. This is already federal law. Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that was signed by Joe Biden directed the NHTSA to establish permanent standards for impaired driving safety equipment on all new vehicles within three years. Fortunately, Congress gave the NHTSA some more time in 2024, but now another deadline is looming. If Congress does not act, very soon all new vehicles in the U.S. will come equipped with systems that determine who gets to drive and who does not get to drive.
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Automakers are arguing that the technology still isn’t ready because it makes way too many mistakes.
Some drivers just naturally have eye or head movements that make them appear to be impaired in some way.
Of course others are extremely upset about this dystopian law because of how extremely intrusive it is.
Do we really want AI to track our eye and head movements every time we enter our vehicles?
Unfortunately, even though it has been on the books since 2021, most Americans have never even heard about this very alarming law…
The measure, often referred to as the Halt Drunk Driving Act, anticipated that as early as this year, auto companies would be required to roll out technology to “passively” detect when drivers are drunk or impaired and prevent their cars from operating. Regulators can choose from a range of options, including air monitors that sample the car’s interior for traces of alcohol, fingertip readers that measure a driver’s blood-alcohol level, or scanners that detect signs of impairment in eye or head movements.
Once the NHTSA sets the final rules, there is no going back.
At that point, it would take an act of Congress to overturn the law.
Recently, there was an effort to remove funding for the implementation of this measure, but that effort was soundly defeated…
A Republican-led effort to remove the Halt Act’s funding was defeated in the U.S. House last month by a 268-164 vote. Another bill to repeal it entirely awaits a committee vote.
Most of the opposition has stemmed from suggestions that the law would require manufacturers to equip cars with a “kill switch”. That would essentially allow them to “be controlled by the government,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis posted on the social platform X, drawing comparisons to George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984.”
I honestly don’t think that Congress is going to do anything.
So we are going to be stuck with this change.
The goal of the law is to reduce the number of accidents caused by impaired drivers, but they are attempting to do this in the most dystopian way possible…
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