The automatic car kill switch's funding was approved by Congress. Your new car could have a system of sensors that analyze your face, behavior, breath, and more to determine if you're drunk, high, or a danger on the road. The technology is expensive and the details are unclear. Each manufacturer will have to create their own kill switch, and you will be paying extra for it.
This was not an accident that happened quietly. It was passed into law under the Biden administration’s 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, buried deep in Section 24220, a provision few lawmakers publicly debated but one that now threatens to fundamentally change the relationship between Americans and their vehicles.
