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USAToday Fact check: Yes, there's a vehicle 'kill switch' in Biden's 2021 infrastructure bill, and we lie about it. (www.usatoday.com)

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Yes, it says it's false. Here's the pertinent line:

identifies whether they may be impaired and prevents or limits motor vehicle operation "if an impairment is detected."

That's called a killswitch.

On the law itself, it's Section 24220 - b - 1 - a - ii AND 24220 - b - 1 - b - ii

Just a reminder that fact checkers blatantly lie, and will even tell you they're lying. It takes like two minutes to fact check laws like this.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This doesn't really make sense. How will the people in the government office know if I am drunk?

[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not what the claim is. The claim is that the law requires a killswitch. And the law does.

The point of the post is that "fact checkers" lie. They are not trustworthy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok I read it carefully. The law is that manufacturers have three years to set the standards for what tech to use to make cars that can tell if you're drunk and then turn off. Is that still a kill switch?

[–] No1RivenFucker 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By definition, fucking yes. Why are you people so caught up on finding some way of wiggling out of calling it a kill switch on some petty technicality of definitions? At least fucking own up to it and honestly proclaim your support if you agree with the policy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am not trying to wiggle out of anything, I am trying to understand what seems not very straightforward. And I'm not sure I like being lumped in with "you people". What is " you people" supposed to mean anyway? Christians? Americans?

I can tell you honestly that I am 100% against some government bureaucrat turning off my car whenever they take a notion, and I am certain that a large majority of reasonable people would agree with me on that.