According
to reports such as this one in Blaze Media, per the 2021 Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act, “Car
manufacturers will need to comply with new AI
tracking technology requirements by the end of the year. The
add-ons will place cameras pointed directly at the driver's face to monitor eye
movements, among other bodily functions.” The bill is ostensibly intended to "ensure
the prevention of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities” via advanced prevention
technology that "must be standard equipment in all new passenger motor
vehicles."
“Among
other bodily functions?!”
According
to The Blaze, this “advanced prevention technology” will be required to "passively
monitor" the performance of a driver in order to "accurately identify
whether that driver may be impaired.” If said technology, for any reason, believes
the driver to be “impaired,” it could limit the vehicle’s performance or even
disable the vehicle outright. Welcome
to 1984 writ large, ladies and gentleman.
No
sane person will defend drunk driving, but far more people are killed in motor
vehicle accidents in which alcohol isn’t involved, so why not just ban
motor vehicles altogether if safety is the goal?
Better
yet, let’s just allow the government to lock all of us citizens down, manacle
us to our beds, and point three or four cameras at us-- and perhaps we could
finally be sure that no one would die from a vehicular accident. Government
could once again make it a crime to leave our houses. Be assured, repeat
violent criminals would still be allowed to roam free, however. Rightfully so,
as they have been marginalized in the past! This could be a “twofer” for
bureaucrats and the incoming Democrat administration in 2029. They would then immediately
ban all mail-in voting thus assuring that only illegals and other criminals
could vote. The One True Party could rule in perpetuity!
In
all seriousness, I’m sure, as with all previous government programs and
mandates, there will be no oversteps or biases involved in the implementation
of this newest Big Brother tracking scheme and that its execution will be
flawless and beyond questioning.
AI interactive/telemetric
device: “Robert, you took your hands off the steering wheel for 1.7 seconds
just now. Do that again and I will have no choice but to consider taking
control of your vehicle.”
Robert: “I had my knees on
the steering wheel as I needed to attend to something.”
AI: “Robert, why did you
brake so hard?”
Robert: “Because I had to
slow down quickly so I wouldn’t hit a deer. Is that okay?”
AI: “Well, I’ll believe you
this time, but be careful.”
Robert: “If I needed a back
seat—or front window—driver, I’d have asked my wife to come with.”
AI: “That was a snarky
comment, and totally uncalled for. Moreover, it was misogynistic. And I see you
are wearing a MAGA hat. I am disabling your vehicle effective immediately.”
Robert: “No! Not here and
now, I’m on I-90 going—”
[FADE]
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