Big Brother: Peltola votes for government-mandated kill switches in cars

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Mary Peltola

It happened in 2023 during an amendment process on a bill: Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola voted against the amendment, which was offered by Republican Rep.Thomas Massie to reverse earlier Biden Administration legislation that mandates that all new cars must have kill switches installed on them, which the government could then use to kill the engine remotely.

House Republicans in 2023 tried to take out the “kill switch” mandate, which theoretically allows an agency or person located anywhere on the planet to take control of your vehicle. The House failed that day to pass Massie’s amendment to defund that piece of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Peltola voted with the Democrats.

According to the new Biden Administration mandates, new cars will to be able to listen to in-car noises and conversations, monitor drivers’ eyes, check the air in the car for alcohol fumes, and have kill switches that will automatically shut your car off if the computer — or someone controlling the computer — thinks you should not drive.

Privacy advocates express concern that the technology may not be good enough to know when to legitimately shut off a car after the computer determines the driver is impaired.

Another question is: What is someone is injured or sick and is trying to get to a doctor or hospital, but the computer decides the person should not drive?

Further concerns relate to computers connected to the internet that could be hacked and operated remotely by nefarious persons.

Although Massie’s amendment didn’t pass, it’s not over. U.S. Congressmen Scott Perry of Pennsylvania has sponsored H.R. 6563, the No Kill Switches in Cars Act, which would similarly repeal the kill switch mandate.

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  1. Not to mention just turning a car off during the nice common high speed chases. But, then, all they had to do was put these criminals in prison for the long count, anyway, any thus eliminate all kinds of later crimes, not just high speed chases.
    And government car manufacturing monkey business has already caused the price of new cars to go beyond sanity, already………which is really what they wanted all along, anyway.
    We’ll see how this is all going to go after we go critical mass………

    • Actually this is a thing. In California, a friend of my son bought a new Mustang. A few weeks later, cruising down The 5, it shut down without warning. After towing back to the dealership, he discovered that the finance company had mistakenly reported him in default and ordered it shut off for repo. I don’t know gas or electric.

    • And, we can trust the government to never possibly abuse the new power?
      Not a chance.
      I do not know about you, but I look around at the people I work with in my office, and let me tell you, I do not want a single one of them to make even the most insignificant decision when it comes to my family. Do you really think the government is full of people who are somehow different? They are all angels who would never abuse their position in any way.
      Who are these people, and more importantly, where can we find them?

  2. Just what kind of sick-minded, freedom hating individuals come up with a mandate like this in the first place? On the positive side, if they keep going in this direction, illegal immigration will drop off sharply, as Russia and China will be much freer and more prosperous places to live.

  3. Punish everyone because a few bad people.
    Typical leftist attitude.
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    Oh, and I am absolutely triple sure the government would never dream of abusing this capability.

    • It will be incorporated into your digital ID based “social credit score” along with control of your financial accounts. Speak ill of the power structure and your whole life will be switched off.

      • Yeah. That would be nice.
        Who do you trust with that power, Greg? Your average government bureaucrat?
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        Also, how about punishing those that break the law, instead of assuming everyone on the road is guilty?

    • Yup. I drive a 23 year old rig, and it’s too modern for me. If I was young enough, I’d be restoring vehicles from the 1960’s for my own use.

    • I have a 2024 GMC Sierra and a 2022 Subaru Forester. At age 70 these should last me the rest of my life. I love my safety and drivabilty technology, but I’m totally against the nanny state technology coming in the next few years.

  4. Did you all see what happened to the solar panels in the hurricanes! What about the electric cars? And the batteries with salt water? Now we have all this waste to clean up on a government bill? Really? Use brains

  5. No injection papers………….
    No transportation for you !!!!
    Lock you out of your own bank account to boot.
    I’m sure they wouldn’t do that right?

  6. “If the law (says) that… the law is an ass,” said Mr Bumble in Dicken’s ‘Oliver Twist.’ And this kill-switch law is a huge and ugly donkey.

    We the people must retain our two kill switches for a government run amok. Voting for our liberties foremost, surely, is Switch #1.

    Amendment 2 to the Bill of Rights is Switch #2. “The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons who have duly reflected upon the subject… The right of CITIZENS (my emphasis) to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic… .”
    – Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, ‘Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States’ (1833)

    Citizens, let us vote for liberty first on November 5. Regardless of the outcome let us never surrender our natural, inalienable rights – which are not extinguishable by any ’kill switch’ of the federal government!

  7. First thing I will do is find a way to disable it… like what should be done about any democrat ideas.

  8. I hope Musk sends him a notice to correct usurping freedom of political speech in an election period. Sending it to the would be usurper police department, sheriff’s office AG Office, Secretary of State for the state in which this occured, Secretary of State for the US and to President Donald Trump’s Secret Service to ask for investigation congressional investigation for attempting to take freedom of political speech during an election period with a writ of quo warranto urgently a notice to correct to secure and defend the US Constitution .

    • Sadly, Musk is the one who came up with the “cameras looking at your face” idea, although I’m not sure whethet he is in favor of mandating it.

  9. Big brother and little sister Mary P, peas in pod. Mary, please just go fishing and leave your fellow Alaskan’s alone! America is very close to being destroyed by communists, we must vote Trump for president, YES on 2, which is an Alaskan citizen’s initiative to keep dark money out of Alaska, contrary to the TV adds for no on 2 which is dark money from Chicago, Denver and other crap pits of leftist millionaire dorks meddling in OUR elections!…YES on 2 and despite my preference for Nancy Dahlstrom, Nick Begich deserves a chance to serve Alaskans in Congress.

  10. I want the switch for the government vehicles.
    Just wait until this system is hacked and the chaos it will create.

  11. Trying to follow what passes for logic in the liberals’ minds.

    If we do not need voter ID/proof of citizenship requirements because it is already illegal for non-citizens to vote…

    Then why do we need alcohol monitors and kill switches if it is already illegal to drive while impaired?

    • Why do we need to check IDs when purchasing alcohol because everyone knows it is illegal to purchase it before you are 21, or if you are a prohibited person?

  12. What I want to know most is exactly who is pulling Peltola’s strings. She’s obviously sold her soul, maybe sooner after going to DC than we believe. She’s demonstrated just how weak she is. I don’t care if she’s a riverboat captain, fisher or proud Coast Guard mom, she’s not been voting in line with the majority of her constituents. Someone has to be texting, calling, emailing or visiting her and telling her how to vote on these issues. THAT is the person who needs to exposed.

  13. As obsessed as this one’s political tribe is with killing babies, Jews, cops, mutilating children to the point of suicide, importing terrorists and illegal aliens to kill Americans, there’s no telling what the concept of a “Kill Switch” actually means to them.
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    … why would anyone in his right mind humor Peltola & co. to find out?

  14. Is that unconstitutional though? Is that ok? To remove the blessing of liberty the right to locomote on publicly funded roadways? Is usurpation free or treason? What is the paycheck for committing treason?

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