Cars & Transportation "Kill-switches" coming to all new cars in the US from 2027

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Insane. You just know this sort of thing could very well make it's way around the world.

 

[Chief]

This is Elon and Co wanting their surveillance shit to be labeled a "safety feature".

 

[dumb]

kill switch alright. imagine stopping a car in the middle of a 5 lane freeway or something.

any thoughts to install this infrared technology on handguns?

 

[Andre]

A few thoughts on this. Firstly, it should not send any data back to the manufacturer or anywhere else. Second, the concept of tracking whether drivers are fit to drive in general is fine (with proviso above). This is already rolled out in many trucking companies these days, tracking out of lane, distractions and fatigue via cameras / AI.

A 'hard kill' of just shutting off engines is obviously dangerous, but reducing the speed of the car and allowing a couple of minutes to get it to the side of any road, with it still operational at a speed of something like 5km/h after that, so you can get it off a road still, would be workable.