How to Turn Off the “Kill Switch” . . . By Eric Peters

If you don’t want to hand control of your car to the government, you’re going to have to get a pre-2015 car. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:

Remember when the Biden Thing decreed that beginning with the 2026 model year, all new vehicles must be equipped with a so-called “kill switch” that would allow the government to disable the vehicle remotely? It was pitched – as such things are always pitched – as a saaaaaaaaaaaaafety measure. “Dangerous drunks” would not be able to drive and dangerous high-speed chases would end because they’d never begin. The cop could just throw the switch – meaning, transmit a signal – commanding the car to turn itself off.

Of course, that also meant the government could turn off a vehicle equipped with this “switch” at any time.  As for example during the next “pandemic” or perhaps the first “climate lockdown.”

It is important to understand a few things. First, that it is not a switch. If only it were. Switches are easily by passed. Think of the switch that turns the lights on – and off – in the room you’re in. Here a switch is a helpful thing because you probably want to be able turn off the lights when they’re not needed. But what if you did not want them off? What if you wanted it so that they could not be turned off? Easy. Just remove the switch and wire the light directly to the current so it’s always on.

Can you do the same with a “kill switch” equipped vehicle? Unfortunately, no. Chiefly because it’s not a switch, at least not in the sense usually conveyed by that word. Indeed, it is precisely the absence of a switch that presents the great difficulty. An example of a switch that can be defeated is the one all new riding mowers have that will shut off the engine if the operator gets off the mower (and also if he shifts his weight, which almost everyone finds incredibly annoying). A related switch will turn off the mower’s blades if the operator reverses the mower.

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