{"id":5622,"date":"2023-11-11T09:48:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T16:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2023-11-11T09:48:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T16:48:30","slug":"hageman-fights-law-that-mandates-government-controlled-kill-switch-in-all-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/11\/hageman-fights-law-that-mandates-government-controlled-kill-switch-in-all-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Hageman Fights Law That Mandates Government-Controlled ‘Kill Switch’ In All Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More coverage on the failed amendment to kill the ‘kill switch’. Every time I look at our lonely representative in Congress, it makes me think of the Joker from Batman. You might think that she’s conservative, but she comes from a politically connected family and worked for Liz Cheney as well as being backed by Trump (WEF YGL daughter), so conclude controlled opposition who will betray her constituents when her OCGFC backers require it. But she’s been appearing on the right side of issues though this one seems staged for credibility as it didn’t pass. Consequently, we’re a nation full of political traitors heading us to the scrap heap of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/cowboystatedaily.com\/2023\/11\/08\/house-blocks-hagemans-move-to-end-law-requiring-kill-switches-in-cars\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Calling a mandate that will install government-controlled \u201ckill switches\u201d in every car after 2026 a \u201cmassive invasion of privacy,\u201d Rep. Hageman tried on Tuesday to defund that law but lost by a 229-201 vote.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Clair McFarland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming (Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Wyoming\u2019s lone U.S. House representative co-sponsored a budget amendment Tuesday that would have defunded a federal law that requires all passenger cars sold after 2026 to have a kill switch.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the proposed amendment failed Tuesday evening in a 229-201 vote, with eight delegates not voting.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, was among 199 Republicans and two Democrats voting to defund the kill-switch mandate. Voting against the amendment were 210 Democrats and 19 Republicans<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a massive and likely unconstitutional rule and an invasion of privacy on a greater scale than we are used to seeing from our government,\u201d Hageman told Cowboy State Daily on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Too Much Big Brother<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

She said the kill switch requirement has potential for significant waste, fraud and abuse by government agencies and corporate actors through the switch\u2019s tracking capabilities.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt also leads to several additional questions,\u201d Hageman said. \u201cHow does this technology, in cases not involving the use of a BAC, determine if the driver is impaired? Could this technology, by killing a vehicle operation, cause a driver and its occupants to be stranded and placed in an even more dangerous situation? What are the implications of this technology malfunctioning?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Section 24220 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act mandates that by 2026<\/a>, all new passenger vehicles shall be outfitted with \u201cimpaired driving prevention technology\u201d systems that passively monitor drivers\u2019 performance, detect whether a driver is impaired and prevent or limit operation if the system detects impairment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alternately, the systems can be outfitted to detect the driver\u2019s blood-alcohol concentration and shut the vehicle down if the driver is over the legal limit, the law says.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Debate <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Debate on the House floor Tuesday boiled down to the Constitution\u2019s guarantee of privacy versus Americans\u2019 concerns over drunk driving.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The amendment\u2019s author, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, called it \u201cincredible\u201d that he even had to offer the amendment.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt almost sounds like the domain of science fiction, dystopian science fiction, that the federal government would put a kill switch in vehicles,\u201d said Massie, adding that Americans have a fundamental right to travel freely.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Massie also pointed to unknowns with the upcoming technology, asking if it would use cameras, if insurance companies could access the data without permission, what sort of waiting periods would restore the vehicle\u2019s operability and if authorities would follow the Fourth Amendment once they have access to this kind of observation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Debbies <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Michigan, opposed Massie\u2019s amendment, calling it \u201can insult to every American who has been hurt or lost loved ones to drunk driving.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiple Democratic delegates voiced strong opposition as well, including Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida. She said the law does not require auto manufacturers to install kill switches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPassive drunk driving technology is a vital tool in safeguarding our loved ones and other innocent people on our roads,\u201d said Wasserman Schultz.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She pointed to the 31% increase in drunk driving crashes between 2019 and 2021 in Florida, and the 190 fatalities in 2021 in Kentucky, Massie\u2019s state.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have a right to engage in potentially fatal behavior,\u201d said Wasserman Schulz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois, also unleashed statistics, saying 10,000 people die every year from drunk driving crashes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou would think that the Republicans would want to do something about it,\u201d Schakowsky said. She derided Massie\u2019s amendment, calling it the \u201cDrunk Driver Protection Act.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back To Work <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Hageman also proposed some of her own budget amendments Tuesday.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her colleagues approved her amendment prohibiting the funding of remote work agreements for U.S. Department of Transportation employees.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The delegates also approved Hageman\u2019s amendment prohibiting the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from offering remote work arrangements when the alternative worksite is within a 50-mile radius of a HUD office.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHUD\u2019s remote work policy shows that its employees are not showing up to work at the Robert C. Weaver building, but are instead spending their days in their homes, coffee shops and other locations across the greater D.C. area,\u201d Hageman told her colleagues.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To Cowboy State Daily she said, \u201cThe COVID pandemic is over and we need our federal workforce to be accountable in its work on behalf of the American citizens they were hired to serve.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also advanced an amendment directing $5 million to increase funding for a program to develop aviation technicians, calling this an effort to keep aviation fleets safe and direct money toward jobs rather than \u201cfunding a larger bureaucracy.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More coverage on the failed amendment to kill the ‘kill switch’. Every time I look at our lonely representative in Congress, it makes me think of the Joker from Batman. You might think that she’s conservative, but she comes from a politically connected family and worked for Liz Cheney as well as being backed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5623,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions\/5623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}