Rep.Scott Perry, R-Penn., wants to kill the kill switch.A bill Perry is seeking to push through Congress would rescind a provision in former President Joe Biden's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that mandates all new cars to come preinstalled with technology that ostensibly monitors whether a driver's blood alcohol levels are above the legal limit and can shut their vehicle off remotely."If you don't know what a kill switch is," Perry explained in an interview with Fox News Digital, "it's exactly what it sounds like.
It kills your vehicle.The vehicle itself decides whether it appreciates and approves of your driving based on a series of algorithms, computer metrics, etcetera, about how it thinks you should be driving.
And if you're not comporting with that, it shuts the vehicle off."The two-paragraph No Kill Switches In Cars Act, shorter than the law it seeks to repeal, would nix the Biden-era provision that mandates all new cars contain technology which "monitors a driver's performance to identify driver impairment" and which "must also prevent or limit vehicle operation if the system determines the driver may be intoxicated or impaired."Perry argued the law was an encroachment on the civil liberties of Americans, and that it would violate the Constitution's Fourth Amendment and make vehicles unnecessarily expensive.DAVID MARCUS: WHY I'LL TAKE MY CLUNKER OVER ANY NEW CAR WITH A GOVERNMENT KILL SWITCHRep.Scott Perry, R-Pa., is seen near the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D.C.
(Bill Clark/CQ via Getty Images)"Cars are expensive and one of the reasons they're expensive is because we have all these systems on them.I'm a person that uses my mirrors to back up," Perry explained."I've never had an accident backing up or parking, but yet, if I buy a new car, I don't have an option whether I get a camera in the car or not.
Maybe I want a new car, but I can't afford the camera and the lane assist, and now all these other features that are in the car monitoring m...