🚘 House REJECTS Effort to Defund a KILL SWITCH Mandate For Cars, Allowing Government to Shut Off Your Vehicle – Here are the 57 GOPers Who Voted to Keep the Mandate. 🚗
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🏛️ PANIC IN DC 🏛️
This is just gonna force people to start buying cars older than 2015. And it'll force the Fed Guvt into another "cash for clunkers" program to eliminate those older cars.
Or just pull the fuse for the satellite communications antenna on your car. 📡
Will the car run without that?
It most certainly should. All the engine controls, navigation, HVAC share a Controller Area Network (CAN) Bus / wired network. The system is designed to let the major systems function even if one component fails (rendered off line).
In the case of a car, you will lose your GPS navigation and probably Sirius Radio, but the engine would still work (maybe with a warning light or two on the dash).
This is the way.
Creative solutions exist.
Your phone will do fine for gps and sat radio.
Wow. Lovin my truck more than ever. I need to love it more and go pump up my tires a little bit 😂
Still got my 2002 Dakota. 😊
My 2005 Toyota Tundra on has 95K mile. In perfect condition.
My wife's 2010 SR5 Fourrunner about same mileage, perfect condition.
I don't remember the last time I had a car payment. I think it was back in the 80s.
Do they have body guards? 😁😂
lol why would my vehicles need a body guard? Is someone going to assault them.
They have been declared a 'National Treasure' 😁
The 2010 FourRunner has telemetrics, they could shut it down remotely.
Grok says: If you don't see the SOS button overhead, your 4Runner almost certainly does not have the telematics system. It wasn't a widespread standard feature across all 2010 models.
I don't have any such button.
Yeah, 2010 was the first year and they only included 4Runner, Land Cruiser, and Prius's. They started by putting them in the nicer models and trim lines, you most likely have the base model so they didn't put it in yet.
I have a four wheel drive, but it doesn't have that button thing.
Still driving my 2000 Toyota Rav 4 with 251,000 miles on it!!
Not sure of the purpose of "cash for clunkers". I have an old 1979 Toyota that I wanted to get rid of in the cash for clunkers program several years ago. They wouldn't take it because it was too old. What they really wanted was the newer used cars so they could make them so scarce people would have to either buy an actual clunker, or cough up the money for a new car. Right after, all the used car lots in my area were almost empty. Virtually no choice in gently used cars. If they do it again, we need to ask up front, how old is too old. That may expose some interesting information.
Money laundering...
Then we saw those clunkers like my father in laws Olds driving around afterwards.
I sure hope this gets vetoed
Look up the cash for clunkers scam. I have a 2004 Jeep I bought 2 years ago for $2,500 it had 95k on it. Thats my work car. Put $1k into it for brakes, tires and other items. My 2010 Challenger R/T 6spd is worked to the balls!!! Newer cars are built to break, save your money, do your research and get an older reliable car. The less computer parts, touch screens the better.
I'd buy a waymo if I could. I'm like the complete opposite of you, I want as much AI and sensors on my car as possible.
Thats what makes the world go around.
Aren't they the ones that recently just stopped due to a power outage? The stoplights were off and the software didn't know what to do so they just sat there like they were abandoned.
yeah, but i'd just manually take over and drive in that case... like I want it as a personal driving car, not as a rental/rideshare car lol, it always allows a human override.
also it will get better.
this is the worst it will ever be.
it's like 1 year ago the video ai models of of will smith eating spaghetti was like a hallucination trip, nowadays, it's almost indistinguishable if not for the uncanny valley. AI videos and pics are gaslighting and tricking so many boomers... What's it going to do in another year, 5 more years? There will be a limit, but have we hit it yet? probably not.
Sacks of SHIT.
The 'glitch' that will stop people from leaving states.
Yes if would be handy come time to pick up a congressman who thought he might skip.
Anyone over 50 remembers when governors were put on cars to keep them from going over 55mph. Many people wrecked and died because of this insane process. That ain’t freedom if they can stop your from traveling outside their 15 minute cities. It’s not a criminal they are after they are after you!
Every modern car has speed limiters on them, they're just set above 55. And, no car came from the factory with a physical governor set to 55 in the US since 1922 and those were there to keep the motor from exploding.
You're probably thinking about the nationwide speed limit of 55 mph from back in 1974 due to the oil crisis. They highlighted 55 mph on all speedometers from that era, but no physical limiter at that speed was present.
Huh? I'm well over 50, and I don't remember this.
I don't think it was all cars, I am over 50 and I don't remember that at all. I do know that some fleet cars are set to not go over 65. Mostly to control their employees.
Insurance purposes.
Simple is durable. Keep your old vehicle in good order and keep the rust at bay.
We are control all your cars. Gubmint knows best.
All cars since 1996 or so have a kill switch to prevent the motor from blowing due to a shit ton of different issues ranging from overheating to electrical failure. This happened when they installed OBDII ports in all cars.
In 2018 all cars were integrated with SIMs from the factory that were hard wired into the motherboards and unable to be turned off. Aside from Tesla who monitors all individual car locations, no other major manufacturer keeps dibs on their cars, but they easily could and easily could just send a signal that would trigger the safety feature that kills the car in the chance of overheating.
There have been a few cases of this happening though in the news if you dig them up. There have also been a few cases of Police unlocking cars via signal when they had a warrant. That's not even including the incidents where OnStar or BlueStar has stopped many, many police chases.
Every manufacturer has a telemetrics setup like OnStar. Subaru has Starling, Hyundai has BlueLink, Kia has KConnect, BMW and Mini have ASSIST, Benz has MBRACE, Ford has FordPass, Lincoln has WAY, Toyota and Lexus have Enform, and Volvo uses On Call just to name a few.
So yeah, it's already here and has been for years. This shit is a distraction.
Disagree as a mechanic. My truck(2002) and my Jeep(2001) cannot be shut down remotely. Both will overheat with the only shut down activated is melting the rods to the crank. Ask me how I know...because I did it in the Jeep. And the diesel has the computer power of a calculator.
Lol....ACTIVATE SHUTDOWN!! engine melts
My 6L F350 did that after it dumped all the coolant and started a metal fire. The CeraTec helped but the engine was still blown
reread what I wrote
I did. I still disagree. I wish there were some way to remotely kill a vehicle thats over 15 years old. I've had 7 vehicles stolen, 5 of which were customer vehicles. Unfortunately, only higher end brands such as Cadillac, Lincoln, MB, etc, had that capability that long ago. 2017 saw many lower end vehicle with this technology. More likely than not, the system has a breakdown that causes the engine to shut down, ie coil failure, electric fuel pump failure, etc. But to remotely shut it down was impossible for the majority of vehicles produced prior to 2017.
Good luck to them. 7.3 diesel, 25yo jeep, 3 harleys. I just laugh and keep going...
I wish we could trust Republicans to do the right thine, but they're the part of the system. It looks like we're going to have to do the right thing and primary them.
I guess they havent watched that scene in Idiocracy lol
If this ever comes to fruition I am sure someone will figure out a way to get rid of that feature.
The only use I can agree with is the ability for cops to shut down cars fleeing from them. A lot of lives and property damage would be saved. Otherwise I hate it.
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This is going to help stop all these traitors when they run.
You're kidding right? Lol
I was being sarcastic! Kek
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What is their actual reasoning why that's desirable?
For your safety. It's never anything else.
Hell they pushed car registration as a way to help solve car theft.... something that registration doesn't help with lol
My guess is high speed police chases ... but the problem lies more in the penalties people get for doing that kind of stuff ... it almost seems like wreckless drivers get their license back in under a year for doing that kind of shit ... and many of them don't even care if they have a license or not ... they'll just sit in jail for a year or two, be released, and do the same thing over and over again.
People need to be jailed for a significant period of time if they put on a show and have police chase them at high speeds be it highways or neighborhoods. There isn't much of a deterrent to doing that.
Having a car shutdown mechanism that can be done over the air is NOT the solution ... that just gives a lot of power to retards.
I prefer the old school approach. Put down feral animals.