🚨 The federal government has mandated that all vehicles sold after 2026 must have a kill switch that can disable your vehicle based on your driving performance.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) November 8, 2023
My amendment to defund that unconstitutional mandate failed tonight.
Here is the roll call:https://t.co/YWufj9BuMv
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Whew guys the fact checkers have debunked this
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/01/19/fact-check-false-claim-bill-mandates-kill-switch-cars-police-drunk-driving/11066287002
If anything this will cause more crashes when peoples cars randomly switch off on the roads.
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Are you subhumans really shitposting while driving?
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Most of my browsing time on this site is behind the wheel of a 26ft box truck often carrying hazardous goods. You are not on my level
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You would be amazed how many people I see, on a daily basis, flying down the lane next to me with their phones in their hand on top of the steering wheel.
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Adaptive Cruise Control and its consequences
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Tell me more.
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I feel the same way about shit like lane change assist and automated breaking. They've 100% killed people before. I think it was audi who had an issue where past a certin speed lane change assist locked your steering to the point where throwing the wheel in either direction did nothing
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You see chuds are saying it will be used for evil when the government pinkie promised it would only be used for good!
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I believe both sides
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a "kill switch" implies the driver is killed
if the driver isn't killed it isn't a kill switch
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It can only be used to kill vehicles in good faith and cannot be abused because it's to target impaired drivers only, obviously!
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Booze cruisers really are the most oppressed minority.
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Surely impaired driving detection devices won't also detect reckless driving as impaired driving, besides its not like you have a right to break the speed limit and change lanes aggressively.
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i think the idea is that the required anti-boozecruise kill switch is local while a true kill switch would be accessible over the network. But given the excessively network-connected nature of modern cars that would be almost be a distinction without a difference
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its not a remote kill switch but its a kill switch.
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There's a vehicle I drive regularly that warns me about my need for immediate rest when I'm driving on twisty, curvy roads. It'd be cool if it just turned off completely and killed me, then I could rest a lot.
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It's so epic how the fact checkers don't even pretend they're not just a pretorian guard for the establishment and the glowbois anymore
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If the deboonking is more than a long sentence you know it's not a deboonking just a well actually cope
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It's such a weird technicality to argue with. I think what they're saying is that the mandate allows car manufacturers to implement the new safeties in such a way that they're fully autonomous, without any external input. It might even effectively require them to be implemented in this way if they're required to work even in adverse weather where a satellite connection might not be operational.
But it's still pretty bullshit.
It's this weird thing coming from the left where rather than arguing for better enforcement of the law or stronger sentencing, because those are "problematic", they instead try to add restrictions that prevent you from breaking the law in the first place. In other words, they don't want to give you the freedom to break the law, because dealing with enforcement is too "icky" so they don't want to do it.
Kinda like how in my very blue city, black people caught illegally possessing firearms are still given extremely lenient sentences. You'd expect that would be something the democrats would want to enforce given all the grandstanding about gun violence but they don't want to punish a black person, even if they're clearly in violation of the law. So instead they want to make it impossible to illegally own a gun by simply banning guns entirely... which obviously isn't going to work.
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yeah i know
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