Guest Post by Eric Peters
Some of you have probably heard about the Biden Thing’s decree that, beginning with 2026 model years cars – all new cars must be factory fitted with so-called “kill” switches. By which is meant not only that the car can be turned off by the government and its baying bloodhounds – i.e., “law enforcement” – but also by itself, if the car decides you are driving outside acceptable (to it . . . as well as to the government) parameters.
The key to understanding the latter is understanding what the government means by “impaired” driving – ostensibly the reason for the fatwa’ing of the “kill” switches. It not being enough, apparently, to have probable cause-free dragnet stops of motorists, where each one is obliged to prove to the satisfaction of law enforcement that he has not violated the law (so much for the old presumption of innocence) with regard to drinking and driving. Not enough to punish those who actually do drink and drive.
Everyone must be presumed “drunk” as soon as they get in their car to go for a drive. They will be obliged to prove – to the satisfaction of the car – that they have not been drinking, else the car will stop driving.
In addition to the “kill” switch – and tied into it – will be (and to some extent, already are) what are styled “passive” sensors that monitor the “performance” of the driver. If these sensors detect signs of . . . whatever they are programmed to detect, the “kill” switch shuts off the car. Ostensibly, the “signs” are of impairment, such as eyes not staying open/focused on the road (Subaru’s EyeSight system, already installed in all new Subarus except the last handful of manual transmission-equipped 2023 Crosstreks). But there is no technological reason why other “signs” – of things the government does not like – such as ignoring signs, could not also be programmed-in to trigger the “kill” switch.
Note that almost all 2023 model year cars already have something called Advanced Speed Limit Assistance Technology, or something similar. What that means is the car knows what the speed limit is, everywhere you drive. Which it does via the real-time mapping of where you’re driving and how fast you’re going. Go faster than the speed limit and the Advanced Speed Limit Assistance will warn you of your “speeding” by shifting the little icon in the instrument cluster that displays the current speed limit from white to red. It is one small step – one line of code, probably – to go from there to stop.
It could and almost certainly will also be used to erect a much more comprehensive version of the DM “points” system, under which a driver is dunned a certain number of “points” after having been convicted of “speeding,” as well as other such sign-ignoring. Imagine if the DMV – and the insurance mafia – could apply “points” (and fines) for every single instance of sign-disobedience. Could “kill” your driving privileges on that basis. Most of us would have our driving privileges – the pathetic thing our former right-to-travel has become – rescinded before the day was out.
The rest of us would probably give up driving the day after – because why bother? “Driving” would be reduced to sign-obedience, a schooling for dullards and the half-dead. It would mean the end of any pleasure attending driving, at any rate – and that is very much intentional. But it is also something else. That being an assertion of Who’s Boss. Which isn’t you.
Which is established by enforcing obedience – generally.
Fail to do as you are told – and not just on the road – and they will turn off “your” car. The same people who turned you away from stores, if you refused to “mask.” Who tried to take away your job, if you refused to take their drugs. The ones who quiver with rage that you, lowing cattle, have had the power to go where you like, whenever you like. It is this they are determined to “kill” – and they have in fact already done so. The Thing has ordered it to be so.
And so it is already in the works.
Recall the mantra of the WEF, that we will own nothing – and be happy. Well, who will own “your” car when it can be turned off at will by someone other than you? When it can turn itself off, contrary to your will?
If that sounds like “ownership” to you, it’s possible you may indeed be happy about what the WEF – and the Thing – have in mind for you.
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Let’s be clear. EVERYONE comes with a kill switch.
Bet yer ass they do. It’s called the Medulla Oblongata.
Aim small, miss small.
I’m buying a car from the 1970s or early 80’s
Exactly, makes me wish I’d kept my ’70 Mustang. Anything new will be under their thumb.
I almost feel like I’m bragging when I say I drive a 79 Subaru brat.
I’ve wanted to buy an old Beetle or VW van from that era, but one that’s even in decent shape is almost as much as a new car.
Pre 1970. Not subject to emission controls. You can pretty much modify them any way you like and still be legal. This can be a big deal in areas that require annual inspections to be able to register. Wish I still had my ’68 Camaro.
This is how they will get rid of those too.
“Your car is too dirty, you will have to spend $40k to make it ‘clean’ or turn it over for recycling”. The rich can, you can’t.
Or they will just do the Paris thing and make the vehicle useless for travel by banning pre-2000 vehicles from road use, because emissions. Other cities are doing it too.
London already charges something like $25 to enter the city if your car is not ‘clean enough’. On top of ‘congestion charges’ and $200/day parking.
Driverless cars will be the new normal. Controlled by the government.
You will not own a car and like it. The cars will summoned by your smartphone.
There will be more walking and bike riding.
“There will be more walking and bike riding.”
Perhaps,but also a lot of hilarity as we all fiddle with our “Kill Switch”modulators!
DEFINITELY sounds like something that would happen in Australia…
Is that LLPoH ?
machinist,
do you remember a couple of years ago when llpoh posted a pic of the kangaroo screwing a sow?
that definitely could be him,or one of his family —
lol, year
Older trucks, cars, and crotch rockets are all I own.
Not even ODB II…
I hope the tires on these driverless taxis are bulletproof.
Had an 85 300D, it got totalled in my daughter’s front yard by a drunk or I’d still have it.
Hah I want to see the fat cop sitting in his car while eating his donuts try to shut down my 89 f350 as I go whistling by ignoring signs
The funny thing is that Chief Wiggum actually has the intellect of your average Police Chief. With one exception, as follows:
Charleston, SC had a huge crime problem in the early 1980s. The only safe areas were South Of Broad (SOB) St. or Mt Pleasant across the Cooper River. SOB had their own private PD.
So, Mayor Joe Riley (a Clinton D) hired a black, Jewish Chief from Philly, Greenburg. Town got cleaned up in 2-3 years.
Now it’s the best place to live in the US. SOB house values are $800-900/sq ft. And the SEWE Gala is tomorrow. Go to sewe.org. Please come down next year.
And, never thought I’d say this, God save Ohio.
I have a “kill switch” in me van and pickup:
I though just call it “the accelerator”.
james,
if that is your shop in the background,i want you to know that i am envious of you —
Nope,friends place.
Now….,with that out of the way whenever I find the home with 20 acres minimum without a covid/scamdemic price will buy and then….,since I inherited all me dads wood shop tools and want a garage with lift am probably going the hut route with A LOT of square footage!
I feel we could all fab up a “kill switch”unit,really could be kind of fun!
Will again put me tech crew on it(busy lads!).
Uhh… Kids… The mouse is on the OUTSIDE…
It figures that the Ghost in the Machine would turn out to be a fuckin’ cat! It ALL makes sense now!
I’d already decided to start buying cars built before the mid 2010s due to unnecessary features like adaptive cruise control and automatic collision avoidance systems that slam on the brakes unexpectedly when travelling up a steep driveway or when a car quickly passes across your lane in front of you on the highway. They can take their ignition interlock and kill switches and cram them up their asses.
I can’t wait for the crime scenarios such as a woman who’s been plied with alcohol and abused manages to get away only to have the car refuse to start because Uncle Sam decided she’s too drunk to drive or she needs to briefly drive away at a high rate of speed and the car won’t let her.
I don’t even like anti-lock brakes or traction control. I can drive better than a chip. And WAY better if I’m drunk.
Absolutely…I’ve definitely had times in my automatic transmission cars with anti-lock brakes and traction control that performed far more poorly than the rear wheel drive 4 speed manual Toyota I learned to drive on.
Sitting in stop and go Toronto area traffic for hours on end caused me to stop buying cars with a manual transmission. The constant one-two back and forth shift and braking just made me want a car I could put in D and go home.
A fucking men.
My boy hit a deer with a ’22 Carolla, he said the computer took control of the car and left him with no steering control and yet still took out the deer.
I hope you either took control of whole body or at least cut out the backstrap?!
I assume your son survived just fine and at most needed direction!
My guess is the airbag(s) did not help out the deer!
James, my son was fine, thanks. When I showed up in the morning hours before dawn, we couldn’t find th deer. We drove into a town and waited for the state patrol and when we returned, I walked the ditch to find it about 500 feet from his car. I had my wife’s Cherokee and no tools for the deer. I had to leave it there. Looks like you ended up buying that F150 you were contemplating a while back, eh?
Yep,as stated before,not auction perfect but very nice,doing some odds and ends to it and having a guy I know who is a great body shop guy add some real fender flares due to wide tires,he will make it look like they were always part of the truck.
Shame about not getting the kill but your kid did fine and a corolla easily replaced(unlike a son!).
“left him with no steering control and yet still took out the deer.”,hmmmmm…..,perhaps the car wanted some venison?
A good friend of mine’s younger brother hit a deer a few yards down the road from my house. He knocked on my door and asked me what he should do.
I told him since it was his Dad’s pickup, he needed to call the cops and make a report to be sure his insurance didn’t try to stiff him. I also told him that he was entitled to the carcass by law. The deer was laying in the ditch for ten minutes waiting for a cop to come shoot it and put it out of its misery. Cop finally gets there and empties his revolver into the ditch…hitting the deer once from point blank range. Then my buddy’s brother told him he was taking the meat.
Bottom line is the cop had to go back to the station and explain why he expended 6 rounds on 1 half dead deer and ended up with no meat! Good times!
One Christmas I got drunk on home made cherry brandy and power slid a Pontiac Pariesenne across a snow covered one lane bridge. Not one scratch. My copilot was impressed as hell!
That’s what my friend thought when I tried to get him to turn his keys over to me. Rolled his pickup and we had to drag him out from under while it was on fire. Saved his life but he was never the same and died a few years later.
Bummer,you did what you could.
Lose control on some snow or ice and watch the car shut down as you are operating outside parameters. Or rocking in gale force winds, shimmy while towing livestock, rocking climbing rocks on a fire road. I can name a hundred real life situations where I had to wrestle a vehicle operating outside norms.
The Constitution states government may not prohibit use of federal roafs. I have seen a successful argument this includes requiring a driver’s license.
My current daily driver has the allegedly emissions saving start-stop feature. One can be sitting at a light waiting to turn left, after the start-stop feature has turned off the engine allegedly to save emissions, only to take one’s foot off the brake pedal in order to turn only to find the battery is dead and the car will not move out in the intersection.
I’m not kidding. Some people with my model of vehicle reported battery failure within a week of ownership. My battery failed after about a year, and the manufacturer did do a recall to replace the original battery with a better AGM battery. I was not in traffic when my battery failed, but still, what a risk people could be at if their vehicle just fails in the middle of a busy intersection.
I plan on ditching my current vehicle before the warranty runs out.
Add a tow hitch up(electrical)will not at moment do such fuckery!
I could certainly see the starter going quite quickly. A small cost to pay for 0.01mpg improvement.
Elon will get a $10 bazillion contract to make sure things like that don’t happen. B-cuz gubbermint knows he knows how to make things wurk.
Ha ha ha ha….the Constitution. You mean the toilet paper used at the White House, the Capitol Building and the Supreme Court? LOL
Please dont imagine they can be made to care about the untermenschen.
I’m glad she’s dead.
Many modern transmissions already do just that. Eric Peters has written several times about it. I own a car with such a transmission. I was unaware how bad it was/would be when I bought it, and it’s not like the salesmen were about to let the cat out of the bag.
Such transmissions make cars into f*@king deathtraps, right out of the lot.
We’re going to have to keep our gas cars running for as long as possible.
Time for the politicians behind this stripping of Our Liberties to live in Fear.
Live?!
Yeah, and to that the loony Left will respond either by taxing you in to submission, or outlawing the sale of gas and diesel… They’ll probably go with the taxes. The Left LOVES taxes… This is the object of their game…
It will be taxes.
Here in Canada, cigarettes show the method they will use. Just quadruple the price with taxes.
The rich will want their classic and antique cars so ICE cars won’t be outlawed entirely, but they will be so expensive to run and maintain that ONLY the rich will be able to have them.
“Unless they start building massive numbers of nuclear power plants”
And 4x more grid. 4 times.
The idiots will keep buying these no matter what.
For decades I have heard friends get all defiant about every new ‘feature’ added to cars. Every one of them went and bought a car with features after they claimed “would never drive a car that had them”.
A few months ago one bought a new car with ‘lane assist’. Finally got him to admit he did not know it had it when he bought the car. A real deep researcher that one.
These same sheep will buy a new car every three or four years, no matter what ‘features’ are added, no matter who they serve.
Fuckwits will pay for their own jail to be built, walk into it, lock the door and claim they always wanted to be ‘this safe’.
And the car shuts off, taking the power steering and brakes with it. Hello, Mr. Lawyer…
This is most likely a big part of the the push for EV’s, and why “self-driving” EV’s are being permitted on the road. Imagine showing up at the wrong protest or rally, and then getting in your car, only to be “self-driven” to wherever these people want you to disappear to… If Tesla can do over-the-air software updates on their cars, there’s nothing it CAN’T tell its cars to do OTA…
‘And the car shuts off, taking the power steering and brakes with it.’
It’s really fun when you’ve got a load in the back of your (compact) pickup truck and you lose everything in traffic at 65+ miles per hour …
Hell … my ’89 Ford Ranger used to do that all the time … I complained to Ford more than 2 dozen times in the shop and via phone … it wasn’t until 15+ years later that Ford actually admitted that there was a problem …
What a surprise …
F O R D … Found On the Road Dead …
Ever have to replace a broken or defective car part-such as a power window mechanism? Did you notice that invariably what you get at the dealer’s parts counter is exactly like the part installed at the factory when the car was built way back when? Auto manufacturer’s are in business-just like prostitutes-for one and only one reason: to take your money and then fuck you.
Why would the part be something else? If you need a power window switch, why would you expect a windshield wiper switch?
Thank you for pointing out your level of mechanical and electrical decline.
Automotive manufacturers keep manufacturing spare parts the same way:
1. Because retooling is very expensive.
2. Because different parts don’t fit/won’t work.
Duh.
Next time, try taking a grade school shop class, seeing as high school shop is too far above your comprehension.
Have two Rangers over the years. Neither one has that problem. What you do to it to make it mad at you? Not going off road every few months will make it mad.
By the way, Rangers back then didn’t have power steering and power brakes as standard. They drove perfectly fine without it. Ran mine several times without power steering and power brakes down the interstate with no trouble. Replaced the worn out parts when I got around to it.
You must be one of those 89 pound soy-based weaklings to not be able to drive without power everything. You need to build up some strength. Go to your neighbor and ask to show you how to drive his old 1930s vintage Case, Farmall, McCormick Deering, Allis, Johnny Popper, Oliver, Minnie Moe, or whatever from back then. Or spend a summer behind a hay baler stomping out 75 pound alfalfa bales, 200 per hour, stacking them 12 high on the wagon.
That is why! To do an OTA update to self-drive you away and disappear you!
Because nothing says freedom like having a government license to drive on government roads following government rules in a government inspected and registered machine.
Eh…..,except that final run down the road(with car “Kill Switch”modulator),could actually be a bit o fun!
As always,just saying……..
I have an idea for a kill switch. Can’t decide if it’s .308 or 30-06.
06
Go Dirty Harry and put a little show in it!
The first thing I thought when I read this article was: business opportunity. Establish a business to kill the kill switches. But that will be against the law you say and I say that just increases the profit margin. Imagine Breaking Bad where “fixing cars” replaces making meth.
A diesel with a mechanical IP can be easily made to stay running without a ecm. so can a gas engine if it has a distributor, by swapping the distributor to a mechanical one from a earlier model (or new performance one) and plugging the injector holes, installing a fuel pressure regulator and a carburetor.
Lift pumps on old diesels or the best…. Mechanical fuel pumps
Why I drive an impeccably maintained 20 year old diesel 4×4 Chevy. 21 mpg.
Got a ’22 VW Golf GTI several months ago — it’s got that damned IQ.drive on it — all sorts of sensors and ‘controls’ on things unless you disable what you can of it EVERY TIME you start the engine.
It’s really distressing when the cockpit resembles a video game rather than a driving cockpit … and when there are no real gauges or instruments or anything that would provide a (real) driver with the information needed to drive the car in a proper and responsible manner — under full control by that driver.
But even more distressing is that, at least according to the VW mechanics I’ve asked, one cannot merely disconnect the hardware for that IQ.drive system without bricking the car … and I have to wonder if that’s not part of the #9 rebar up VW’s ass from our own government for their daring to challenge the EPA on that whole fustercluck known as ‘diesel gate’ about 6 years ago.
Nope. They were over integrated crap from ~2001 on. My buddies new Jetta stopped working one day. Refused to start. Was traced back to a bad window regulator.
Happened to another friend when he tried to change the stereo. Something to do with theft protection bricked the car. Had to take it to the stealership for a reset.
Here’s the thing…
There is absolutely no point in putting everyone afoot UNLESS it gives THEM an advantage over YOU.
The problem: You took my car, but left me my gun.
The solution: You’re fucking dead and now I’ve got YOUR car AND your guns!
“Life finds a way” – Jurassic Park
“Go break some eggs!” – Tony Stark, Infinity War
And this is why God wanted me to have an electronics engineering degree. I’ll make a fortune disabling these little pieces of shit.
Just install a kill switch bypass circuit. Problem solved.
Standing by for the next problem that the electronically declined are incapable of comprehending because they can’t tell an MFM from an RLL encoder.
I’m kind of curious, thinking to myself; how long these Gestapo roadblocks will last once ambushes begin? Just a thought, because I realize in cities, we’d all be watched 24/7 even more than now. But out on some rural highway, is ripe for a hidden sniper or twenty.