Whenever politicians get into legislating technology, they run afoul of The Law of Unintended Consequences and/or do it in a ham-handed enough way for human/civil rights groups to get involved in a serious way. Ask Kevin Mitnick how well the law handles technology.
Granted, it is already possible to stop a car by frying the ECU with a small EMP burst, and police already do this, but the instant you add any sort of networked computers into the mix, you’re just asking for any malicious person with some computer skills to abuse it.
And just think of the fun that terrorists could have destroying the transportation infrastructure!
@wildpotato The stop isn’t sudden (unless they get fucktarded and tie it into the brakes). Its more of a coast-down as the engine dies, and since most non-Americans drive stick, it’s easy to get at least a couple of miles. I know they can because I’ve done it after my first Honda lost it’s distributor rotor at 60MPH. And then there was the time my buddy and I did 12 miles in neutral with the engine off….