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So what we're talking about here is a kit a kill switch in an automobile that would monitor the driving of a vehicle and then stop the vehicle from operating

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if the car itself decides that the operator is not driving safely. Let's say a mother is driving a vehicle taking

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her kids to work and how does she appeal her conviction of a disabled minivan from the side of a road? How would you re-enable the car that's been disabled

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with this technology you're advocating for? It's a good question sir Mr. Chair members good question and I'm not quite sure that I'm qualified to provide the

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the technical answer that that you're looking for there. And now I'll read from the the statute passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor

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vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired and prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if an

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impairment is detected. Now we're two years past the passage of this law and we're three years away from the the

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deadline not not just for the rule but for the auto manufacturers to comply. How will this technology work? We

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spelled out some possible technologies in that NPRM. Those include for example driver monitoring that's currently used typically for advanced driver assist

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systems but could do things like track whether somebody's actually looking at the road, whether their pupils are dilated etc. My amendment is simple. It will defund

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the federal mandate that requires all new vehicles after 2026 be equipped with a kill switch that can disable a vehicle

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if the vehicle has monitored the users the drivers performance and that the vehicle determines that the driver is not performing well. It's so incredible

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that I have to offer this amendment. It almost sounds like the domain of science fiction, dystopian science fiction, that the federal government would put a kill

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switch in vehicles that would be the judge, the jury, and the executioner on such a fundamental right as the right to travel freely.

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What problems might arise as a result? We don't, for example, want to have false positives where somebody is detected to have blood in their alcohol

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alcohol in their blood, sorry, and in fact does not and can't start their vehicle. If we had a 99.9% effective system, we estimate there's something

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like a billion trips a day. That that would leave a million people not able to start their vehicle. So, we got to get this technology right. >> talks about disabling a vehicle possibly

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in transit. That's very concerning to me if you have a false positive for that. Yeah, and we do we do ask questions about that in the ANPRM as well. And I don't know about

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you all, but I would like to know when I put my family in the car and I'm taking a trip somewhere, the car is not going to disqualify me.

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Maybe I'll I'll I'll trust a court or I'll you know, and in states, 31 states already have like a breathalyzer uh technology that's already

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incorporated into their laws. Like if you are uh a known offender, a DUI offender, they can force these to be installed in your car to make sure that you're a

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um qualified to drive at least from a blood alcohol content qualified to drive. Not everybody is, but um

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we don't need this federally. We don't need it automated. I think there's privacy concerns. In order for this technology to work, you actually need to know where the car is

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to know if the driver's doing a good job on that particular road. And um so, this kill switch amendment would just defund implementation of section 24220

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so that you can know your car's not going to shut you down in the middle of the road. >> [snorts] >> And I regret that we have to offer this amendment. What I'm going to describe

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will probably sound like a bad science fiction movie, but that's what's written into law. Uh, right now in law that's going to be implemented for the It says for 2026 and

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beyond. Now, the reality is the technology doesn't exist, but that doesn't keep legislators from imagining things that they would like to do to infringe on civil liberties. But,

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there's a law that states that every vehicle manufactured is going to have to have a kill switch in it. The car itself will monitor your driving. And if the car thinks that

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you're not doing a good job driving, it will disable itself. So, the car dashboard becomes your judge, your jury,

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and your executioner.