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The “law enforcement wouldn’t have access” part some groups focused on is a bit of a red herring. One, I don’t really believe it. But two, law enforcement would be sure to notice someone whose car wouldn’t drive over 15 mph all of a sudden or was disabled on the side of a road.
I could also picture this leading to so many different unsafe situations. Leaving a bad area of town at night after a show? Great, the system kicks in and disables your car leaving you stranded and at risk of robbery or kidnapping or assault whether you stay with your car or try to seek another ride. Driving home to a rural area in freezing weather with no cell service? Well, the system thinks you’re impaired so it disabled your car, leaving you at risk of hypothermia, sorry. Stressed because you’re late to a job interview? Sorry, the system determined you are driving in safely and disabled your car, so guess you won’t make it. It’s solidly dystopian.
Rural Canadian here. We get everything mandated in the USA because it's not worth making Canadian models. Then we have to disable it.
This would be the absolute first thing to go on any vehicle purchased. We do DEF/DPF/SCR delete, traction control/stabilitrak delete just to make sure our vehicles are reliable and perform as expected in Arctic conditions.
Note that EGR delete isn't on the list as EGR actually improves cruise efficiency while cutting emissions... And PCV delete is idiotic, I've added PCV to old vehicles that didn't have it. It's not like we just hate the environment or something.
The last thing we want is a system that could intentionally make the truck eat shit while we're smashing snowdrifts with the bumper and trying to get home in a storm. It could literally kill us