>Driving on the highway and the AI eye tracking software decides your eyes aren't as sufficiently open enough so it concludes you must be asleep
>Car locks up and causes a 40 car pile-up more spectacular than any jeet H1-B truck driver could ever hope to achieve
>Just another day of living in the best country in the world
Stepping out of the Fatpacks mentality for a minute, I was incredulous about this so did some digging. The X account referencing the story is dogshit and doesn't actually link to anything relevant, just a two sentence summary, and the main website "
Pubity" is some slop social media marketing company that farms engagement. Great sourcing for your politisperging bro.
What it's actually referring to is a joint effort that's been ongoing since 2008 between the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the non-profit the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety, who have been trying to figure out a way to use technological improvements in order to curb the effects of drunk drivers. Notably while it's been harshly critiqued for the technology available not being up to par and faultless as would be required for road traffic conditions, as well as the draconian overreach of data collection required for the proposed system to function. All of this shit was kicked off for finalization in November of 2021 (with final conclusions and recommendations to be given in January of 2024) when it was signed under
BIDEN in Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
As directed by Section 24220 of IIJA, subsection (c), “not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act [November 15, 2021], the Secretary shall issue a final rule prescribing a Federal motor vehicle safety standard [FMVSS] under Section 30111 of Title 49, United States Code, that requires passenger motor vehicles manufactured after the effective date of that standard to be equipped with advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology.
It's only reappearing into public awareness now because when Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act on February 3rd of this year (which looks to be a
bill approving funding for and extending expiring programs for a fuckton of departments) it was basically kept on life support despite the NHTSA February 2026 report to congress essentially saying "yeah bro here's some suggestions but really the tech is not there to properly do this, maybe in 2030?"
On January 5, 2024, NHTSA published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to solicit information from the public on advanced impaired driving technology. NHTSA continues to evaluate and analyze the information contained in the more than 3,000 unique comments received in response and to conduct the research and other activities described in this report. NHTSA last submitted the required annual report to Congress on December 13, 2024. NHTSA also submitted a report to Congress on July 20, 2023, as directed in the Joint Explanatory Statement accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. The findings stated in the December 2024 report to Congress have not changed materially.
Recently, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced it will include vehicle features that address risky behaviors such as impaired driving in its TOP SAFETY PICK+ award criteria by 2030. NHTSA is also considering an approach to include information on vehicles that adopt impaired driving prevention technology in the New Car Assessment Program.
You can read through the NHTSA 2026
report here, but for the life of me I can't find anywhere in the document or online that says this will actually become mandatory in 2027, and the year itself from the looks of things seems to currently be a "model year target" for legislation. However this was also the case back in 2021, and then 2024, and now 2026, so outside of the doomers shouting "AHHHHH WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE IMMINENTLY!!!" I don't see anything from congress saying this is definitively on the table.
TL;DR: Wanted to see if Fatpacks' prognostication was different from his usual doomerism bait, turns out it's largely a total nothingburger and is the remnants of a Biden era program which has yet to see any sort of realistic or actionable implementations, and has been only kept on life support because it got included into a larger funding bill signed this year. But no we're all going to die next year from AI car brains and it's that fuckin orange man's fault!
Charles apparently doesn't wear a wedding band?
The guy infamously has swollen sausage fingers so wouldn't be surprised if he's taken off the wedding band so the lack of circulation doesn't make his finger fall off his meaty mitt like a gelded ram
