Dems pass new law requiring a 'kill switch' in all new vehicles sold after 2026



Hidden within a 1,039-page law that passed when the Democrats had the majority in the House of Representatives is a provision for a “kill switch” in all new vehicles after 2026.

Democrats seemed unaware that they had passed this new provision, so Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) had to read the law directly to them.

The provision states that it will “passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired and prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if an impairment is detected.”

“In other words, they have mandated that there be technology in every new vehicle sold after 2026 that evaluates your driving performance, gives you a scorecard while you’re driving, and if you fail, it will disable the vehicle and put you on the side of the road,” Massie tells Glenn Beck.

Massie believes that this technology is going to create thousands of false positives.

“Let’s say you’re a mom and you’ve got kids in the car, and you’ve pulled over twice onto the shoulder to let emergency vehicles go by, and then you swerved once for a deer, and now you make your final, you know, correction, and boom, the car says, ‘Okay, we’re the judge and the jury.’”

Glenn notes that even OnStar, whose facility he toured once, also had the technology to disable a car.

“I talked to the head of OnStar, and he said ‘Yeah, we can pretty much disable your car,” Glenn tells Massie.

“That doesn’t sound like a good thing.”

This law would allow the car's technology to decide whether you have the right to travel or not, which is why Massie offered an amendment to this law.

“I offered an amendment to defund this rule, this law, and you know, I’ve been here 11 years. I lower my expectations for my colleagues every year. And it’s still not low enough, because my amendment did not pass,” Massie says.

Massie believes that the most insidious problem with this technology is that it will have “far more false positives, and it will crush your liberties.”

“My only hope here, Glenn, is that this technology they want is so ridiculous that they will put off the mandate once they realize they can’t do it. That’s my hope,” he adds.


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Tennessee lawmakers pass bill requiring drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill parents: 'Make people think twice'



Lawmakers in Tennessee have passed a bill that would require by law that drunk drivers who kill the parents of minors in car accidents pay child support to the children.

House Bill 1834 was unanimously passed by the Tennessee Senate on Wednesday. In March, the bill unanimously passed in Tennessee's House of Representatives.

The bill is known as "Bentley's Law" or "Ethan, Hailey, and Bentley's Law" – named after children of victims killed by drunk drivers.

The bill would require a drunken driver convicted of killing a parent or caregiver to have to pay restitution for each child of the victim until the minor reaches the age of 18 and has graduated high school.

"Under this bill, if a defendant is convicted of vehicular homicide due to intoxication or aggravated vehicular homicide and the victim of the offense was the parent of a minor child, then the sentencing court must order the defendant to pay restitution in the form of child maintenance to each of the victim’s children until each child reaches 18 years of age," states the bill – which has yet to be signed into law.

"This bill requires the court to determine an amount that is reasonable and necessary for the maintenance of the victim's child after considering all relevant factors," the bill says, including "the financial needs and resources of the child" and "the standard of living to which the child is accustomed."

Courts will determine the amount of child support the defendant will need to pay on a case-by-case basis. If the DUI driver is incarcerated and is unable to pay the child support, the defendant will have up to one year after release to begin making child support payments.

If a defendant's child support payments are set to terminate, but the defendant's financial obligation is not paid in full, the payments will continue until they are paid in full.

"A parent is responsible for the education and upbringing of that child and when then that parent removed from the home over something so, in my opinion, foolish where we drink and drive and take the life of an innocent then someone needs to be responsible for the upbringing of those children," Republican State Rep. Mark White told WREG-TV.

The idea for the bill originally came from a Missouri grandmother who lost her son – Cordell Williams, his fiance – Lacey Newton, and their 4-month-old son – Cordell II, in a tragic drunk driving car accident in April 2021. The bill is named after Cecilia Williams' 5-year-old grandson Bentley – who lost both of his parents in the drunk driving crash. The drunk driving accident also orphaned Bentley's 3-year-old sibling named Mason.

"I remember looking at my clock and I said it’s 12:36 a.m., who's knocking at my door like that," Williams told KYTV. "The first thing you're seeing was a state trooper and an officer. And when I think about their words, I remember looking past them trying to look for them. They said they died in a fiery crash, unrecognizable."

"Try explaining that to a child. It’s not easy. Parents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, they should never have to explain it to children," Williams explained. "Because someone decided to go and play God and take someone’s life. It’s not fair."

Williams' cousin and Tennessee resident Diane Sutton pitched the idea for the bill to Republican State Rep. Mark Hall – who introduced the bill in the state legislature in February.

Sutton told WZTV, "It's really just a great law, and it should be nationwide."

Bentley's Law was amended to Ethan's, Hailey's, and Bentley's Law, to include the children of 38-year-old Tennessee officer Nicholas Galinger – who was killed in a 2019 hit-in-run accident by a drunk driver.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving said in a statement, "MADD believes that passing Bentley's Law will make people think twice before getting behind the wheel impaired. If a person makes the choice to drive impaired and kills a parent, the person will encounter another consequence for their deadly decision. To the victim of the impaired drivers, Bentley's Law allows for another avenue of restitution to help ensure justice."

If passed, Tennessee would be the first state to put such a law on its books. Meanwhile, other states are reportedly considering adopting the law.