Twenty-five years ago, Americans were faced with a choice: Go along with it – or refuse to go along with it. The majority chose to go along with it and now all Americans are obliged to go along with – assuming they want to be allowed to get on a commercial flight. They must stand in long lines before being processed as if they’d just been arrested for a serious crime. They are required to either go through a scanning apparatus or be physically patted down by a government warder. Their possessions are rifled through and they are generally regarded with suspicion and know they dare not give voice to outrage, lest they be taken to a room nearby for further interrogation. It is just as if they were being processed into a jail only without having committed (and been convicted of having committed) a crime to warrant it.
All because the majority chose to go along with it when they had the option – most of them – not to. Had they chosen not to, it is probable we would be able to board a commercial flight today without first having to be processed like criminals. But it was too inconvenient for people to forgo a trip to Disneyland for a few months. So now it’s set in cement that everyone who wants to fly commercially must accept being processed like a criminal.
Five years ago, the same option was presented in a different context. People had the choice to play Sickness Kabuki for the sake of convenience – or refuse to. Once again, a majority chose to go along with it. They donned “masks” that made it appear they agreed with the narrative that a very deadly virus was afoot; one so deadly gyms had to be closed down but Wal-Mart was open for business. They put “masks” on their kids. They accepted being treated as presumptive Typhoid Marys by teenaged door minders at supermarkets and even by their own friends and family members. All because most of them didn’t want to be inconvenienced or “contentious” – meaning they chose to be obsequious and submissive in the face of unprecedented idiocy and tyranny.
Another choice faces Americans in about five months from now – when the 2027 model year arrives. Per federal law, all new 2027 model year vehicles will be required to have some iteration of “drowsy” or “distracted/impaired” driving abatement “technology.” It will take the form – initially – of eye-movement monitors that tie in with software programmed to recognize – according to the programmed-in parameters – when a driver is not paying attention to the road or nodding off. Initially, this will trigger visual/audible warnings to get the driver to pay attention. The assumption, of course, is that the parameters are in congruence with detecting actually drowsy/distracted/impaired driving. It will be of a piece with the assumption that everyone who wants to board a commercial flight is a presumptive criminal – a “terrorist” – until the government is satisfied he is not and that everyone was a presumptive “asymptomatic spreader” during the so-called “pandemic.”
In fact, the system will regard any deviation from its parameters as congruent with drowsy/distracted/impaired driving – including looking left/right to maintain situational awareness rather than only looking straight ahead like a blinkered horse. It is also likely that any driving the programming registers as “aggressive” or “unsafe” – such as accelerating or cornering at a faster-than-tepid pace, driving faster than the speed limit, changing lanes without signaling (never mind whether there’s any need to signal) or making a U turn or right-on-red – will be regarded as synonymous with drowsy/distracted/impaired driving.
Initially, it will be just a pestering warning – like all the other pestering warnings one receives when driving any recent model year vehicle equipped with Lane Keep Assist or Brake Assist outside of the programmed in parameters.
Inevitably, this will transition into something firmer. Because it follows. If it is necessary to pester supposedly drowsy/distracted/impaired drivers, then it is also necessary to do more than just that. So it will be argued, at any rate. And then it will be imposed. More finely, then it will be switched on. I have been trying for years to spread awareness of the fact that most vehicles made since roughly 2015 and almost every vehicle made since about five years ago – with the exception of small and dwindling handful of models that haven’t been “updated” much over the past 12-15 years – already have the embedded tech and “connectivity” to be remotely controlled by the government-corporate nexus via electronically controlled throttle, braking and steering.
So, here we are again – facing another choice.
How many will choose to go along with it – by accepting what they are embedding in the 2027 model year vehicles? Will they – for the sake of convenience – choose to buy one? Once again, if a majority do choose that, then in short order the choice not to be monitored, parented and controlled whenever we drive a car will be taken off the table for everyone who buys a new vehicle.
It will perhaps still be possible to avoid being monitored, parented and controlled whenever you go for a drive – but only for so long as you are allowed to drive an older vehicle that lacks the technology to monitor, parent and control you.
How long do you suppose that will be allowed?
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One more try. Has it really been 25 years, now? Wow. I’m with ya.
I remember when flying used to be a fun adventure.
No flying. No new car. …Soon, maybe, only just a donkey? Prolly, not even that?
Ain’t living in, The Fourth American Republic, just grand?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/05/ryan-mcmaken/we-are-living-in-the-fourth-american-republic/
You think you are having fun now? Just wait until people get the Communism they are begging for. And then try to drag the rest of us down to their level. After all, said supporters think it means “free stuff” forever. What a rude awakening that will be for such fools. If they don’t end up dead before they have their “ah ha” moment.
Maybe, it’s just me & my browser, you’re ‘slide to verify’ capitchay ain’t working. Comment goes nowhere & gets sent to the ether, …or, is it just ’cause it had a url? Ifdk.
How ’bout that. Some comments go thru. Others get the ‘spinning wheel in the sky’ treatment. Maybe, just a Moofie? Who knows.
A tik tok put up by a woman who rented a 2026 car described how the vehicle disabled the gas as she was merging onto a six lane road. She couldn’t figure out what was happening until she finally noticed a message on the dash telling her to sit up straight. Apparently the camera was not able to see her eye due to her having slumped down too low in the seat.
Pure evil. Monstrous, even.
If you remember the 1974 seat belt interlock, this may have the same shelf-life.
It could crater new car sales in a heartbeat. Once a politician or two experiences the “wonders” of this technology, all bets are off.
Well Max, the smallhats took over my government in 1913. Making word distinctions about the same assholes seems pointless, like saying zionist instead of jew. Fuck that.
Here, in a different context, is why impaired driver detection with a high false positive rate would be a disaster:
Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
🗞️ Israel’s military is using an AI-powered targeting system to track and kill individuals in Lebanon, in a system that experts say cannot reliably discern between fighters and civilians, the Los Angeles Times reported this week.
The system pulls from phone metadata, facial recognition, drone surveillance, SIM card tracking, and social media, processed through platforms including Palantir’s Maven.
A senior Israeli military AI official told the Times the system generates target profiles in seconds, work that once took hundreds of analysts weeks.
Experts raised two distinct concerns:
🔹The first is false positives: the system identifies threats through behavioral patterns rather than direct evidence of combatant activity, meaning relatives, financiers, and administrators are routinely flagged because their communication patterns look similar to fighters.
🔹The second is that the system cannot reason, it only pattern-matches. If the data feeding it is flawed, it repeats the same lethal mistakes at scale, with no human stopping to question the output.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2053237334947004867
This would be an unacceptable error rate here in America. But for Israeli state terrorists murdering goyim, false positives are regarded as welcome collateral damage.
Death to the IDF.
Oh probably, Greg. The next time one refuses to take a picture of their vehicle, and upload it to Google (CIA? NSA?), they will simply shut your vehicle down, and you will not be “allowed” to use it until you comply.
Thus older vehicles will become valuable as “stealth cars”, unable to be remotely controlled by the (((man))), and will actually increase in value…I’ve not bought a new car in over 20 years and wo t start now.
Not to mention the vast stupidity of average americans, content to sell the rope they will be hung with by their fearless (((leaders)))….
Oy Vey, my fellow Golems!!
I’ll one Up ya. RE: “…I’ve not bought a new car in over 20 years and wo t start now.”
I never bought one new. I let my better half do it once in ’07 for her ride. But, that’s it.
A dog sled on wheels, before a new nanny-State-crapola-anything-vehicle.
Death by 1000 cuts. Since the jews blew the towers on 9/11, it’s been non stop slow ball squeeze on the West. Austerity, just a nicer word for poverty, Agenda 2030, the whole Western world a Gaza, a jew run prison camp. If you are willing to look, it’s obvious in every direction you can see.
Your own government blew the towers and blamed their proxy and you bought it. Admit that you might have been duped by an empire that knows the long game. Witness the cesspool of the alt right reinforcing your belief incessantly (flooding the zone) and ask yourself whether you’re not participating in willful confirmation bias (we are all guilty of it at one time and another) …
Psycho gubmints the “klunker” this time around. Cept its cash is beyond worthless.
Tell me about it. A new (reman) starter for my Jeep is now over $200, decent battery over $300. Ask me how I know.
When I arrive at my destination, turn off my car and exit, I get a tone on my Android phone requesting that I take a picture of where I am parked, at least twice a day. Probably at Google’s request, as they are going big on harvesting data for the total surveillance state. Am I going to be on a list for not complying? Was this part of the terms and conditions for an update on my phone’s software. When will this become mandatory?
AI Overview:
‘That tone and prompt are likely a feature from Google Maps or Samsung Bixby designed to help you remember where you parked by taking a photo of your surroundings. Here is how to stop the prompt based on your phone’s settings …’
This is why I refuse to download the Google Maps app, despite its badgering when I open Maps in a browser. Nearly every phone app is spyware. Accessing Maps through a browser may block Google’s surveillance, depending on the browser.
Sheesh, if thats the list you’re worried about, you’ve got nothing to worry about.
That! Is fooking Bizarre O! “When I arrive at my destination, turn off my car and exit, I get a tone on my Android phone requesting that I take a picture of where I am parked, at least twice a day.”
Wow. …Really?
People are That pestered and controlled?
And, they pay for that?
…Seriously, I’m shocked.
I refused to fly and never wore a mask. have 3 vehicles, 2 Enclaves and Stingray drop, enough to last me for decades. so there’s that~
Same here, James –
Well, except for the Stingray! I make do with my Trans-Am….
Of course we will go along with it. It would be “inconvenient” not to, and “convenience” is the new God.
This article rings hollow. The “people” will accept nearly anything as long as the agenda advances slowly enough or its convent enough to accept the creeping authoritarianism.
Look at the things in your own life that you’ve already accepted and have done nothing about.
State safety inspections of vehicles
Emissions testing of vehicles less than 25 years old.
DUI checkpoints & roadblocks.
80 mph or higher—or 20 mph over the limit—is a Class 1 misdemeanor in VA.
Need for concealed weapons permit to carry a handgun.
High property and income tax rates.
Latest round of assault weapons bans and background checks even for private sales.
Look at the number of people that visit this site that have already willingly bought vehicles in the last couple years and that will continue to buy them in the future despite what they say here.
The reality is nothing will change until people actually have something very tangible to loose like their life. Even then, look at the number of people that rolled over for the jab just to keep a job. Their life was literally on the line and they willingly took an experimental shot with unknown consequences.
Consider the number of people that continue to send their children into government schools to be indoctrinated with beliefs that are counter to their own. Even among the supposed libertarians. Why? Because it’s free and the most convenient option.
People are all talk no action.
Right..? It’s like we hate ourselves.
No self value, or values.
What’s that old saying.. ” People get the gov they deserve”
In order to be successful, you must compromise. A rich man told me that.
Luckily, I was always an oddball and steeped myself in stoicism, found that I admired asceticism and not material success, so steeped myself in eastern mysticism as well (mainly autobiographies of Indian saints. A man who drives a POS and lives in a POS and is even-minded and content has won at life, to me. A nice house, car or fat bank account does not make a man good – in fact it’s more likely to do the opposite.
Having said all of this, you can’t expect more than a tiny minority of men to live by their principles, especially in the West.
I agree. One can start by not giving his Social Security Number for anything – and stop by not making excuses why he must.
How about That. In Iowa, and I imagine in many other States, it’s not acceptable to have, and we Do Not Have:
State safety inspections of vehicles
Emissions testing of vehicles less than 25 years old.
Need for concealed weapons permit to carry a handgun.
Latest round of assault weapons bans and background checks even for private sales.
I never took The Jab and know of one other very brave individual who looked them in the eye and said, “No!’ and was prepared to get fired.
Unfortunately, all the other bol sheet you mention, like DUI checkpoints & roadblocks, everyone has to suffer that criminality, too.
“The only way significant change comes to this tightly constructed system of patrons and clients will be via a significant crisis that disrupts standards of living. This must be severe enough that it shakes the population’s faith in the regime to the point that people actually begin to question the state’s legitimacy. Only when real economic pain is felt will there be any real change.”…
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/05/ryan-mcmaken/vote-harder-why-secession-is-the-only-answer-to-the-american-megastate/
How many people know about this “feature” being added? It’s not like constant ads I see for Hyundai and GM promoting the eye trackers. I’m pretty sure no salesman would make it known what’s going on behind the screens during the test drive, assuming the customer doesn’t accidentally trigger one of the warnings.
I think most people will “discover” these systems only after they trigger an event. And by then it’s too late. Even if you bring it back to the dealer, he’s just going to tell you that all the new cars have it, so get used to it.
My daughter just purchased a new GMC Suv. Against my admonitions she went ahead, even after I told her about all this malicious BS. Last week she called upset that her car force braked for a cat crossing the road late at night. Gave her a good scare, oh well, should have listened to your old man. Seems I’ll be spinning in my grave over my progenies choices long before I go to my grave.
Hi Norman,
It may be possible to disable this system. I have been meaning to look into it. I’ll let you know what I find!
Looking forward to reading that, Eric. Any blow against the system is worthwhile
OMG! “her car force braked for a cat crossing the road late at night.”
Idiocracy, has arrived.
I don’t really care what nonsense comes in new cars, there’s less than a snowball’s chance in hell I’d own anything made in the last 15 years
Ditto, James –
My worry is they are going to attempt to make it legally impossible to continue driving vehicles made without this stuff. They will say it’s not “safe” – and enact requirements that cannot realistically be complied with, such as retrofitting older vehicles with the technology. Or they will use extortionate insurance to effectively force these older “unsafe” vehicles off the road.
Then it will be time to lose the SS card, change last name to Rodriguez and not pa ANY of these criminal extortion fees. 😉
Eric: How long do you suppose that will be allowed?
I suspect that as the economy worsens more people will hold onto their older cars whether they want the nanny tech or not as they will be too busy trying to keep a roof over their head and the family fed. If GovCo makes driving old cars illegal what do you think the cowards known as politicians think their chances of being reelected to the gravy train will be?
I hope it all works out but I’m reminded of the saying about “Wish in one hand and sh*t in the other hand and which one fills up faster”.
‘All new 2027 model year vehicles will be required to have some iteration of “drowsy” or “distracted/impaired” driving abatement “technology.”‘ — eric
In 2024, that’s what they told us would happen in 2026 vehicles. But it was bullshit. Ten days ago, articles appeared in multiple sources, casting doubt on 2027 implementation:
‘Congress mandated it. Automakers acknowledged it. Safety groups rallied behind it. And yet, the ambitious federal push to put drunk driving detection technology inside every new American car appears to be hitting a wall, and it is a wall made of incomplete science, accuracy problems, and a whole lot of unanswered questions about who owns the data your car collects on you.
‘In a February report submitted to Congress, NHTSA was candid about where things actually stand. No technology currently in production can passively measure blood alcohol content at or above the legal limit of 0.08 g/dL. Sensor-based monitoring systems, the agency noted, are not ready to be installed in vehicles sold to everyday consumers. That is a significant admission, given that the deadline is just around the corner.’
https://autos.yahoo.com/policy-and-environment/articles/cars-were-supposed-detect-drunk-142651051.html
What happens next depends on how NHTSA responds to its predicament. It’s unpredictable. But ‘punt again’ is one likely outcome.
Thus, I once again provisionally call bullshit on kill switches in 2027 model cars. The tech is not, and cannot be, accurate enough for deployment in millions of trips per day, to detect alcohol impairment. Passive alcohol sensors don’t work. Indirect means such as driver attention and behavior monitoring are incapable of estimating blood alcohol content, which is the legal mandate in Rep Debbie Dingellberry’s infamous Section 24220.
We are being played. Rep. Thomas Massie has forced two House floor votes on repealing Section 24220, which failed by narrow margins. Should this impossible mandate actually proceed, a third floor vote might succeed in repealing Section 24220. Already, it is an epic tale of government overreach and predictable abject failure: bullshit and more shit, piled higher and deeper. I don’t believe it.
‘Motor1’s Take: It is only a matter of time before technology is capable of detecting impaired driving, but it likely won’t be in new cars starting next year. There are still too many hurdles preventing the monitoring systems from working at a mass scale, which gives lawmakers time to reconsider the mandate.’
https://archive.ph/Beuxn#selection-1699.0-1701.295
My sentiments exactly. Meanwhile, Lucy is holding the football. Who wants to take another run at it?
Hi Jim,
I agree that this tech isn’t ready for prime time, but do you think our overlords give a sh*t if the serfs are gimped? The one that gripes me is the nanny “eyes straight ahead” business. That’s a great way to get T-boned; my driver’s ed instructor way back in the 60’s always emphasized keeping your head on a swivel, being aware of everything around you, and it has saved me from being T-boned a couple of times.
Hi Jim,
Here’s the thing, though. Most 2026 model vehicles have the eye movement monitors; I think all of them will by 2027. Also, they already have LKAS and Brake Assist and Speed Limit Assist and all of them are electronically controlled and can be remotely controlled, via “updates.” So, while “impairment tech” isn’t ready for prime time, it doesn’t have to be. The “kill switch” is very much a real thing, at least in terms of what’s already embedded – and possible.
Possible, for sure. And highly objectionable.
Practically, most of us serfs aren’t very likely to be kill-switched or car-crashed like Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone reporter who died on June 18, 2013, when his Mercedes-Benz mysteriously veered at high speed into a tree in Los Angeles … while he was writing a sensitive story about the CIA.
After all, ‘they’ need lowly consumer-depositors [Gore Vidal’s term] to work and shop. Thus, shitty sensor technology that would cancel thousands of trips per day based on false positives won’t be tolerated by the elite, in their own interest. Which, of course, is the wrong reason for its defeat.
Congrats ep,
You solved the Micheal Hastings “Incident”.
Good Night and Good Luck kids…… 🙁
With the price of new cars and trucks and a recession due to a war of choice for our best little pals in the Middle East, this might not be much of a choice for most Americans.
After renting a modern car last summer with this tech, I’m convinced a whole cottage industry of mechanics and parts suppliers will be more important than ever as we become Cuba.
Welcome to the USSA fucking hate this place today
The insurance mafia is gonna put out a hit on older vehicles.