The federal government’s growing push into vehicle monitoring technology is setting off alarm bells among privacy advocates and constitutional conservatives who warn that America is racing toward a future where your own car could become a surveillance device on wheels.
What started as outrage over new driver-monitoring systems in vehicles from companies like Subaru is now exposing a much larger battle buried deep inside Washington bureaucracy.
And critics say Americans are only now beginning to realize what was quietly slipped into federal law years ago.
Under provisions tied to the massive Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed by Joe Biden in 2021, federal regulators are moving toward mandatory advanced impaired-driving technology in all new passenger vehicles beginning with the 2027 model year.
Supporters claim the systems are designed to reduce drunk driving deaths.
But opponents argue the real-world implications go far beyond public safety and venture into something much darker: government-backed vehicle surveillance combined with automated control systems capable of interfering with how Americans drive.
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