Revealed: Senate's $1trilllion
infrastructure bill would require
alcohol monitors in all cars to prevent
drunk driving and back seat alerts
to stop hot car child deaths
Posted By: Ribicon, 8/5/2021 12:27:46 PM
With health and safety provisions like alcohol monitors and technology to curb hot car child deaths, the Senate's 2,700-page infrastructure bill details extensive reforms beyond repairs to the country's roads and bridges. The $1.2 trillion piece of legislation states that 'advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology must be standard equipment in all new passenger motor vehicles,' and that vehicles should be able to 'prevent or limit' operation if a driver is impaired.(Snip) Another section in the $1.2 trillion bill notes that women make up 47 per cent of the workforce, but just 6.6 per cent of truckers.
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* Geoff Earle, and Katelyn Caralle
Various monitors in cars might be a costly invasion of privacy to little benefit to the rabble, since drunk driving laws already exist, but the members of the US Congress who invested in the technology vendors stand to make a fortune. And at its core, isn't this what America is all about? And thanks to The Great Emancipator, everything under the sun falls under federal purview, so we just have to deal with it.