This week, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation asked Congress to take action on car stalking, offering proposed legislation “developed with organizations dedicated to supporting domestic violence survivors.” The proposal is timed to match National Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.
It would attempt to solve a critical problem domestic violence prevention groups have repeatedly pointed out — the person who drives a car most often isn’t always the registered owner of that car. Sometimes, victims of domestic violence drive vehicles registered to their abusers. The legislation, the alliance says, would “enable survivors to quickly terminate or disable an abuser’s access to a vehicle’s connected services, even if the abuser is the account holder.”
