Sometimes I am really glad that I drive an old car. Some of the technology in newer cars is getting scary. It is no comfort to me that an insurance company can put a device in your car to monitor whether or not you are a safe driver. There are also other electronics that can be added to your car with questionable capabilities. I am posting the following article not knowing if it is true or possible. However, it does provide some insight as to where we might be headed.

A website called “Freedom Headlines” recently posted the following:

As a result of this protest in Canada truckers in the United States have followed suit and have assembled a trucker’s convoy in Washington DC.

And it looks like some of the corporate heads are showing their true colors in the United States just like they did with Canada.

It’s being reported by at least one trucker that the Penske Corporation remotely shutdown a trucker’s vehicle because they do not support this sort of protest.

According to Yahoo,

A Burkburnett man taking part in a national truck convoy protest found himself without a ride Friday.

Jeff Sandberg has been vocal in his support of the convoy on social media and was driving a rig bearing a banner covered in slogans.

“We’re just trying to show what the people who back us believe — and our own beliefs — of what our country needs to go back to,” Sandberg told the New York Times Wednesday.

By Thursday night, Sandberg was sidelined because the company he rented his truck from, Penske, shut down his truck remotely.

“Penske does not support the people’s convoy movement,” Sandberg said on a Facebook stream. “So, I’m in a situation where I’m not going to be able to continue on.”

There are some questions surrounding this story, however:

Penske said that they didn’t cut the power to the truck, but instead they pulled him as one of their drivers because he had a “Let’s Go Brandon” banner on his truck.

According to one man, that’s not the truth because he has a good friend who is higher up in the company and relayed that information, but I guess we can’t truly know for sure.

I am neither mechanically inclined nor electrically inclined. Can a truck engine be shut down remotely?