Section 24220 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act mandates that by 2026, all new passenger vehicles shall be outfitted with “impaired driving prevention technology” systems that passively monitor drivers’ performance, detect whether a driver is impaired and prevent or limit operation if the system detects impairment.Īlternately, the systems can be outfitted to detect the driver’s blood-alcohol concentration and shut the vehicle down if the driver is over the legal limit, the law says. “How 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?” “It also leads to several additional questions,” Hageman said. She said the kill switch requirement has potential for significant waste, fraud and abuse by government agencies and corporate actors through the switch’s tracking capabilities. “This 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,” Hageman told Cowboy State Daily on Wednesday. Voting against the amendment were 210 Democrats and 19 Republicans. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, was among 199 Republicans and two Democrats voting to defund the kill-switch mandate. 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.īut the proposed amendment failed Tuesday evening in a 229-201 vote, with eight delegates not voting.
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