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Featuring: Debbie Dingell, Democratic | U.S. House, Michigan, District 6

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Debbie Dingell Warns Of Domestic Abusers Remotely Disabling Their Victims' Vehicles

Published | Video Starts at 00:52

As vehicles become increasingly connected and reliant on wireless communications, we have a responsibility to ensure these technologies are not weaponized to harm people, especially survivors of domestic violence. Survivors have reported that their abusers have used connected vehicle services to track their movements, stalk them in real time, or remotely disable their vehicles. Yet today, there is no clear, consistent or confidential process for survivors to cut off an abuse's access to their vehicle services. (00:52–01:02)

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Asserts that connected vehicle services have been used by abusers to track and control survivors.

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