Big government wants to ride shotgun in your car — that’s the latest from a new regulation proposed by the Biden Administration. Everywhere you drive, government-mandated technology will monitor and control your driving. This is the nanny state at its worst!

Buried in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was a requirement (Sec. 24220) for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to develop a federal motor vehicle safety standard mandating that all new cars have technology that can:

1. Passively detect intoxication levels and disable the car, and/or

2. Passively monitor for “impaired” driving (with cameras or sensors) and either warn the driver or cause the car to come to a stop.

Biden’s NHTSA has now initiated the first round of the rulemaking process and the general public has until March 5, 2024 to submit comments in opposition.

While every death due to drunk driving is a completely avoidable tragedy, the government is a sledgehammer, not a precision instrument. This regulation infringes on our liberties and its cost will outweigh its assumed benefits.

Under this regulation:

• Cars will become even more expensive: New car prices have already risen by 60 percent over the last decade, and this regulation will only increase costs.

• False positives will endanger consumers:  Even with a 99.9% accuracy, you could have a million false positives per day. This means your car won’t start or may automatically slow down or even pull over while you’re driving.

• Your privacy is at risk: In Biden’s America, car thefts are on the rise, and now cyber thieves will potentially have hours of recording and monitoring of your car rides.
  
  

• Your rights are compromised: This intrusive “Big Brother” technology threatens your personal freedom and presumption of innocence.

Even NHTSA doubts that such technology will work as intended, writing: “Little data is available…on which combination of sensors and indicators of driver state, if any, would achieve greater accuracy and reliability of impairment detection.”

A large number of public comments in opposition can help stop this regulation.

>>>Submit your comment — Oppose a government “kill switch” in your car.