Link to comment: https://www.regulations.gov/search?filter=NHTSA-2022-0079
Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/index/2023/national-highway-traffic-safety-administration

NHTSA (National Highway Transportation Safety Administration) wants your feedback on its mandated ‘kill switches’ coming to all vehicles in 2026. We covered a story regarding the Biden-approved 2021 infrastructure bill that holds Section 24220 regarding a requirement for automakers to begin including a “vehicle kill switch” within the operating software of new cars that’s capable of disabling a vehicle from operating if it detects driver impairment.

The system is described in the bill as “advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology,” the measure is positioned as a safety tool to help prevent drunk driving. By 2026, the kill switch is be mandated on every new car sold in the United States.
Really

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has published its preliminary report on the mandate, laying out the challenges facing its implementation.

NHTSA is seeking feedback from the public on the issue. According to The Washington Post, the agency is curious to learn if the public will accept the potential for false positives that could prevent sober drivers from operating a vehicle. Just imagine an emergency, but you can’t do anything because your car won’t start due to a false positive. Or any other situation for that matter, we’re sure your boss would understand if you called in saying you won’t make it to work because your car’s “prevention technology” had a false positive. Or any other urgent emergency with life threatening implications.

Even if the system is 99.9 percent accurate, that could still amount to a million false positives a day, which is something all of us will have to deal with if this system is implemented.

The NHTSA also wants to know how the government should educate the public about technology-related privacy concerns. The concerns include listening to you in your car; tracking your eyes; (they’re already doing through the Gentex system and many other similar systems) as well as tracking your driving inputs including steering, location, gas and brake pedal. More sensors mean more data collection, posing further privacy concerns.

The Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety aims to have a working drunk-driver detector by the end of 2025, and automakers will have to figure out how to install it in new cars even as the agency notes the system could increase costs and complexity, which will undoubtedly be passed onto the consumer. Great cars will even more expensive.

Be sure to make your voice heard regarding this new proposal at regualtions.gov by searching for the docket number, NHTSA-2022-0079, and follow the instructions once it’s been published to the federal register. You can also mail or fax your comments to the US Department of Transportation.

People are infuriated that this rule that Rep. Thomas Massie has tried to strip from the bill. Now is your chance. Speak up and let them know that this is a very bad idea, and it puts lives at risk. Let’s bury them with comments, emails, and voice messages, and let them know how you feel.

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Another billion-dollar promise broken - no EV chargers built yet! Not even one! When President Joe Biden announced his billion-dollar plan to build 500,000 EV chargers, it seemed like a game-changing move for the electric vehicle industry. But here's the harsh reality: not a single charger has been built. Despite the promises made, the numbers speak for themselves. It's clear that words alone are not enough.

Electric vehicle owners are facing a major obstacle - the lack of accessible chargers. The delay in building these charging stations not only affects current EV owners but also discourages potential buyers from making the switch.

The question remains: Where are the 500,000 EV chargers President Biden promised? It's time to hold our leaders accountable and demand action on these critical infrastructure projects. Congress at the urging of the Biden administration agreed in 2021 Infrastructure Bill to spend $7.5 billion to build tens of thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the country

It is an ambitious plan to construct a massive nationwide electric vehicle (EV) charging network, but has yet to yield a single charger two years later.

Overall, the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act earmarked $7.5 billion for electric vehicle chargers, $5 billion for the so-called National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program and another $2.5 billion in discretionary funds for charging and fueling infrastructure, as part of the federal government's ambitious effort to expand EV ownership and reduce carbon emissions.

So where is all our tax dollars? As of this recording, $101.5 million has been distributed for seven state electric vehicle infrastructure systems and just two projects, located in Columbus, Ohio, and Pittston, Pennsylvania, have begun construction, according to the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation which was established by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. At its current pace, the billion-dollar program, designed to build out a network of 500,000 chargers and award $5 billion in five years, will fund a handful of projects and dish out just $250 million in that time frame.

Two years later, the program has yet to install a single charger. States and the charger industry blame the delays mostly on the labyrinth of new contracting and performance requirements they have to navigate to receive federal funds. Americans consistently say the lack of charging infrastructure is one of the top reasons they won’t buy an electric car.

Congressional opponents are now trying to shut down the administration’s efforts to build a charging network by choking off its funding.

The United States has around 180,000 chargers today, according to the Energy Department. That includes 41,000 of the type of fast chargers. In a June study, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory projected the U.S. will need 1.2 million public chargers by 2030 to meet charging demand, including 182,000 fast chargers.

Car dealers are continuing to warn of waning interest in EVs and manufacturers are rethinking their EV strategies. We covered that in a past show.

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