I don’t have an Alexa or Nest or any “smart” appliance that tracks my habits or talks to me. The exceptions are my car, but I turned off the voice that tells me to keep my eyes on the road - now I just get a light on the dashboard with the message and I obey. And my TV. But I question just how “smart” the thing is because whenever I press the speak button to ask for a particular show, the TV responds, “I didn’t get that. Can you repeat your request?” Pretty stupid machine.
Now, can you imagine a master computer using an algorithm or an anonymous geek-bureaucrat sitting in a bunker somewhere, deciding that your car should be turned off - whenever and wherever you are? Someone the scenario that needs a kill switch will decide how you are supposed to use your car, otherwise why have it? Don’t believe it will be for our convenience. If government wants it, government will control it.
When will your car turn off?
Maybe when you exceed you mileage quota for the month. Maybe when you exceed the distance from your home you were allowed to go, or you go to a place that is off limits like a National Forest (only open to elites and select bureaucrats) or visiting someplace or someone who was deemed politically undesirable.
If you look into the twisted minds of the far left statist central planners, it isn’t enough to threaten our free speech or practice of religion. Freedom of movement, the right to defend oneself, freedom of association and private property rights are all being threatened. The blueprint has been written and we are getting glimpses of what is in store for us.
Mind how you vote!
Get this thing overturned!
Biden's Infrastructure Bill, Now Signed Into Law, Mandates "Vehicle Kill Switches" By 2026
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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