This is something that the MSM failed to cover. In Biden’s 1.5 Trillion dollar Infrastructure bill they have added a mandate to add facial recognition to all cars starting in 2026 to prevent drunk driving. The idea is that the software will stop a drunk person from driving, but for some reason, it’s every car off the line, not just people with a history, or something added in later for those that pose a risk to society.
“When the president signs the infrastructure bill into law, a personal choice to drive drunk may just take a back seat. It would put drunk-driving prevention technology in all new vehicles, as standard as seatbelts or airbags, said Otte.”
“So how does it work? In a few ways: automakers would be required to either install sensors that would passively monitor a driver’s breath, eye-movements or unusual driving activity, or they would need to measure their sweat.
“Alcohol detection technology has sensors, for example, in the start button or the steering wheel that would measure the amount of alcohol in a person’s sweat,” said Otte.”
“But some experts are pointing to privacy concerns over having drivers monitored by their own cars – and who would have access to that information.
Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney for digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told MarketWatch, “You want to be really careful that any system of technology that is basically driving surveillance doesn’t go beyond what it needs to be.”
Tien added, “Companies and the government sort of have aligned interests, and they’re kind of not aligned with consumers.”
Facial recognition in every car is just too much. That seems like an overreach and really could be used against Americans at some point. It would only be a matter of time until they are listening in on the cars too.