Dems pass new law requiring a 'kill switch' in all new vehicles sold after 2026

Hidden within a 1,039-page law that passed when the Democrats had the majority in the House of Representatives is a provision for a “kill switch” in all new vehicles after 2026.

Democrats seemed unaware that they had passed this new provision, so Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) had to read the law directly to them.

The provision states that it will “passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired and prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if an impairment is detected.”

“In other words, they have mandated that there be technology in every new vehicle sold after 2026 that evaluates your driving performance, gives you a scorecard while you’re driving, and if you fail, it will disable the vehicle and put you on the side of the road,” Massie tells Glenn Beck.

Massie believes that this technology is going to create thousands of false positives.

“Let’s say you’re a mom and you’ve got kids in the car, and you’ve pulled over twice onto the shoulder to let emergency vehicles go by, and then you swerved once for a deer, and now you make your final, you know, correction, and boom, the car says, ‘Okay, we’re the judge and the jury.’”

Glenn notes that even OnStar, whose facility he toured once, also had the technology to disable a car.

“I talked to the head of OnStar, and he said ‘Yeah, we can pretty much disable your car,” Glenn tells Massie.

“That doesn’t sound like a good thing.”

This law would allow the car's technology to decide whether you have the right to travel or not, which is why Massie offered an amendment to this law.

“I offered an amendment to defund this rule, this law, and you know, I’ve been here 11 years. I lower my expectations for my colleagues every year. And it’s still not low enough, because my amendment did not pass,” Massie says.

Massie believes that the most insidious problem with this technology is that it will have “far more false positives, and it will crush your liberties.”

“My only hope here, Glenn, is that this technology they want is so ridiculous that they will put off the mandate once they realize they can’t do it. That’s my hope,” he adds.

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