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I'm in the US: Who is going to enforce a law to have a working kill switch? Likely it will have to be only the states, not the Federal government. How many v
by graycat 5y ago
I'm in the US:
Who is going to enforce a law to have a working kill switch? Likely it will have to be only the states, not the Federal government.
How many voters would be eager to have such a law enforced? Some states don't have auto inspection, and some states do but don't enforce it very strongly. E.g., a few years ago I had a car out of inspection for several years. By chance a Cop noticed and wrote me a ticket. I ignored the ticket but finally contacted the court. The court had me pay some administrative fee; I did, and the case was dismissed without my being found guilty. And I was not required to get an inspection.
If a state has no auto inspection, then what state Governor would set up a group to enforce such a law?
For several years now, a Federal law requires that new cars have anti-lock brakes. But if they fail, then no law is broken.
Or: "Sorry, Sir. I bought this car used. It seems to be fine. I don't know anything about any kill switch. If it is disconnected or broken or some such, then some previous owner did that. Or maybe the switch failed on its own."
Lesson: There's a lot of showmanship going on. There's a lot less real than meets the eye. This whole kill switch issue is now and long will be very much just an issue of politics, that is, regarded at least by the politicians, with the power, as just an issue of politics. By politics I mean fool people in ways that can make them happy at least for a while and, thus, get the politician votes.
To be blunt, it appears to me that (1) Congress is perfectly willing to enact some law requiring a kill switch to please the MADD group and their supporters for 10 years or so. (2) No one in Congress really believes that a kill switch will be required in all new cars.
Soooo, Congress is willing to play some such games. But lots of other people play games, too: Generally they try to scream that there is some problem and a big effort should be made to implement the solution they happen to have in mind. As in my "(1) always look for the hidden agenda and (2) follow the money.", the "hidden agenda" is to sell their solution and make for themselves the "money".
E.g., my house has low flow plumbing. Bummer -- at the kitchen sink I have to plan ahead just to fill a pot with water. I don't live in a desert. Where I live we are awash in rain water 12 months a year -- we have no water shortage.
To me these look like scams, and it seems that new scams arrive continually, say, like weeds. Some of the scams fail to catch on, but some do catch on, if only for a while. Then along come more scams, more claims of "Oh we got trouble, ...." Keep in mind that maybe such a scare is just a scam.