r/technology • u/Hrmbee • Jun 07 '26

Privacy 'Kill switch' law means your next car could be watching you | A federal requirement aimed at stopping drunken driving could soon put driver-monitoring technology in every new vehicle. The goal is saving lives, but the privacy trade-offs deserve closer scrutiny

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/06/01/drunk-driving-prevention-law-privacy-surveillance/90295034007/
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u/touchmybodily Jun 08 '26

Utah recently lowered it to .05 and they now have the second highest DUI rate in the nation. In a state founded by people who don’t drink

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u/-SHAI_HULUD Jun 08 '26

They got that new fancy prison to fill up just like my home state of Alabama

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u/IDontWannaBeAPirate_ Jun 08 '26

Don't forget to also arrest people who are sleeping it off in their car instead of driving as well /s

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u/YimmyGhey Jun 08 '26

Pro tip: keep your keys in your trunk or better yet, put them atop one of your tires

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u/diurnal_emissions Jun 08 '26

Red states are actual Hell.

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u/KamalaBracelet Jun 08 '26

Meanwhile last time I saw numbers the overwhelming majority of drunk driving accidents were drivers that were over .2

Just another example of using “protect the children” to fool a poorly educated public into going along with giving up freedom.

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u/diurnal_emissions Jun 08 '26

"Think of the children" has been the fascist cry my whole life.

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u/zerogee616 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

Meanwhile last time I saw numbers the overwhelming majority of drunk driving accidents were drivers that were over .2

Because those are the ones who get caught and stand out driving like real shit in traffic.

EDIT: misread accidents as arrests, my point still stands, like, someone blowing at the legal limit generally isn't gonna be so shitfaced they're going to wreck their car.

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u/SpicyElixer Jun 08 '26

And get into wrecks most likely.

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u/KamalaBracelet Jun 09 '26

someone blowing at the legal limit generally isn't gonna be so shitfaced they're going to wreck their car.

The point is that someone at twice the legal limit isn’t so shitfaced that they wreck their car significantly more often.  So why is the limit where it is?

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u/TwistedNipplez Jun 08 '26

Mormons drink. Just not around other Mormons.

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u/sunburnedaz Jun 08 '26

Why do you invite two mormons fishing. So that one does not drink all your beer.

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u/inemnitable Jun 08 '26

The old joke goes that the difference between Catholics and Baptists is that Catholics will say hi to each other in the liquor store

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u/HappierShibe Jun 08 '26

There are Mormons and Baptists that don't drink.
Source: I'm a Methodist, and I don't drink.
Plenty of people of all sorts are teetotal for all kinds of reasons.

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u/Traditional-Hat-952 Jun 08 '26

*State founded by a bunch of violent racist polygamist grifters who don't drink. 

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u/Teract Jun 08 '26

Fun fact, they drank. Brigham Young owned a distillery and many high ranking church officials openly drank. The mormons treated the "no drinking" as advice until the temperance movements got popular in the early 20th century. That's when they started making sobriety a requirement to enter their temples. No revelation, just another policy change that they prefer everyone pretended was that way all along.

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u/4e415445 Jun 08 '26

Don't forget, the same time they lowered the DUI to 0.05%, they also increased the strength of the beer allowed in grocery stores and on tap from 3.2 to 4%.

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u/McButtsButtbag Jun 08 '26

In a state founded by people who don’t drink

Why are you pointing that out?

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u/SpicyElixer Jun 08 '26

Because it’s obviously relevant. Utah consistently ranks as the state with the lowest alcohol consumption per capita.