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grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 18:53:57 PST 2022


Biden's Infrastructure Bill, Now Signed Into Law, Mandates "Vehicle
Kill Switches" By 2026

https://www.yahoo.com/now/law-install-kill-switches-cars-170000930.html
https://www.musclecarsandtrucks.com/biden-infrastructure-bill-vehicle-kill-switch-2026/
https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/29/barr-bidens-infrastructure-bill-contains-backdoor-kill-switch-for-cars/

The rumors we first reported on back in December have turned out to be
true: the United States federal government is apparently in the
process of trying to force automakers to install kill switches in
their vehicles that authorities can use to shut down any newer
vehicle.

The law comes as part of President Biden's infrastructure bill, which
was recently signed into law, according to Yahoo. The government kill
switch is - like all good thefts of civil liberties - being positioned
as a "safety measure". The mandate needs to be put into effect by
2026, Muscle Cars & Trucks reported.

We noted last month that former Rep. Bob Barr, writing for The Daily
Caller, called the measure included in the bill "disturbingly short on
details", but for the fact that the proposed device must “passively
monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately
identify whether that driver may be impaired.”

Which, of course, is code for some kind of device that is constantly
on and monitoring your vehicle - and will likely have the power to
shut down your vehicle anytime it wants.

"This is a privacy disaster in the making, and the fact that the
provision made it through the Congress reveals — yet again — how
little its members care about the privacy of their constituents," The
Daily Caller wrote.

It appears that in President Biden's future, not only will you not be
in charge of your own personal health decisions, but you also won't be
in charge of whether or not you can fire up your car, which you bought
with your hard-earned money, to drive it somewhere, when you deem fit.

That decision will now "rest in the hands of an algorithm", the report
said. Similar monitoring and control devices have faced constitutional
opposition, the report notes, "notably with the 5th Amendment’s right
to not self-incriminate, and the 6th Amendment’s right to face one’s
accuser."

Barr concluded: "Unless this regulatory mandate is not quickly removed
or defanged by way of an appropriations rider preventing its
implementation, the freedom of the open road that individual car
ownership brought to the American Dream, will be but another vague
memory of an era no longer to be enjoyed by future generations."


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