Flock Cameras + Kill Switch Laws = Total Surveillance #privacy #shocking

Our Take

Car Coach Reports is connecting dots that don't get connected enough: it's not just cameras on poles reading your plate, it's the car itself becoming a tracking and control device. Federal law already requires automakers to build in impaired-driving detection systems by the mid-2020s, and once a vehicle can talk to infrastructure or report on its own driver, the line between "safety feature" and "remote kill switch" gets blurry fast. Add a few thousand Flock ALPR cameras logging every trip you take, and you've got a surveillance stack that doesn't need a warrant to know where you've been and, potentially, whether your car will even start.

We appreciate the channel putting this in front of a car-enthusiast audience that might otherwise tune out privacy warnings. The auto press rarely connects vehicle tech mandates to the license-plate-reader dragnet already blanketing American neighborhoods, but the two systems are built for the same purpose: making your movement legible and controllable by default. Flock's pitch is always "just solving crime," but infrastructure that can flag, track, and eventually gate your car's operation is infrastructure that outlives whatever narrow use case sold it to your city council.

Check our map to see how many of these cameras are already logging traffic near you, and hit take action if you want to push back before the car itself becomes another node in the network.